Urban Farms Co.

What others see as a source of air pollution, we view as the gift of the land, for the land We're using the stubble to make superior quality compost making it beneficial for the soil, the farmer, and the consumer by producing nutrient-dense vegetables #UFCoIndia The #RegenWay

🌱 Important guidance from @mygovindia — farmers encouraged to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to 50%. We cut 100%. Productivity held. Input costs fell. Biology did the rest. @UrbanFarmsCo has been chemical-free since 2019 — 2,000+ farmers, 16 clusters, 9 states, 10,000+ tonnes a year. The future of farming is already here. 🇮🇳

When @anandmahindra calls it a breakthrough, we feel a quiet pride — for every farmer who backed this path, every season they stayed with it, and every residue-free harvest that made the case better than we ever could. While urea prices spike and fertilizer supply chains strain, our 2,000+ farmers remain free from this dependency — some of them since 2019. Not because they got lucky — but because they chose to farm differently, and that choice has compounded quietly over six years. The foundation is science — plant nutrition through biological pathways. Healthy soil grows resilient plants. Resilient plants don't need chemicals to thrive. What modern science gave us was visibility into how nature always worked. We simply designed to that. Farmer economics that hold. Produce that's genuinely residue-free. A way of growing food that doesn't borrow from the future to feed the present. Thank you @anandmahindra for seeing this early, and for giving us the conviction to keep going. 🙏🏼 #RegenerativeAgriculture #FutureOfFood #UrbanFarmsCo

Great question — and a fair one to ask. The 10,500 tonnes we grew and sold last year had to meet the exact visual specifications that our B2B customers demand. No shortcuts there. We also conduct regular residue tests to EU standards, which our customers independently verify. Zero residues, every time. The reason this works isn't magic — it's a fundamental shift in plant nutrition. Conventional agriculture delivers low-value inorganic nutrients to plants, leaving them nutritionally vulnerable and dependent on external chemical support to fight pests and disease. We flipped that. By nourishing plants through biological pathways, we produce plants that are inherently healthier — and healthy plants naturally resist pests and disease far better. The result? Produce that looks good, tastes good, and carries no residues. The photos are real. The science behind them is what makes it possible.

@anandmahindra Without fungicides and insecticides vegetables are available as in photos?????

Every crisis has a way of revealing something larger than an immediate fix. Sometimes the real breakthrough is not managing the crisis better but outgrowing the dependency that caused it in the first place. As someone once said: “The best solutions don’t just solve problems. They dissolve them.” Right now, global fertilizer supply chains are under strain because of the blockage in the Strait of Hormuz. Urea prices are reportedly up sharply. Phosphate supplies are tightening. And yet, in the middle of all this, about 2,000 Indian farmers have just completed another full season with zero synthetic inputs. Normal yields. Lower costs. Not a pilot project. Not a theory. They’ve been doing this since 2019. What struck me most is that 80–90% of the farmers return every season, not out of loyalty to a movement, but because the economics work. Yields comparable to conventional farming. Lower input costs. And produce that tests residue-free every single time. A working model. Built right here in India. This video by @UFCo_India captures a remarkable agricultural breakthrough built on over two decades of work by @naandi_india , the same organisation that first helped create the @arakucoffeein story in Andhra Pradesh. After seeing the success of regenerative farming with Araku Coffee, Naandi Foundation, which I’m privileged to chair, spun off Urban Farms Co. as a social enterprise with an ambitious goal: to create a nationwide “food grid” of regenerative vegetable farms serving urban India. Today, Urban Farms Co. & its partner farmers have demonstrated that food can be grown at scale without urea, synthetic fertilisers or pesticides. They now grow more than 50 varieties of vegetables across states ranging from Himachal Pradesh to Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan & Chhattisgarh, supplying nearly 10,500 tonnes of vegetables per year. And this is not confined to company-owned farms. Over 1,200 partner farmers are generating sustained profits through regenerative, residue-free agriculture. Available currently in Delhi NCR, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune. On Blinkit as well. The future of food may not run on imported chemistry. It may well run on healthier soil, better science & farmer economics that actually work. Bravo to Vikash, Raheel and Madhur, who are leading this mission at Urban Farms Co. & who took on the challenge of @manoj_naandi to prove that regenerative agriculture can move beyond philanthropy and become truly market-ready.

@BijayKumarBhuy6 @anandmahindra We have messaged you to arrange a visit at one of our hubs. Looking forward to welcoming you.

@UFCo_India @anandmahindra Please DM your location nearest anywhere in Maharashtra. I would like to visit just to understand your process.

We hear the skepticism — and honestly, in a world full of green-washing and feel-good pilots, it's warranted. But here's what isn't an eyewash: 2,000 farmers. Zero synthetic inputs. Since 2019. Through COVID, through supply disruptions, through every price spike that's rattled conventional farming. When urea prices shot up during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, our farmers didn't feel it. Not because they were protected by subsidies or contracts — but because they'd already moved beyond the dependency. That's exactly the point Mr. Mahindra was making. The solution to a supply chain crisis isn't better crisis management. It's outgrowing the supply chain altogether. The fertilizer crunch you're anticipating? Our farmers aren't waiting for it with dread. They've already been on the other side of it for 6 years. 80-90% farmer retention, season after season. Not because of ideology — because the economics work.

@anandmahindra Wait for a few months when the crunch starts kicking in .When the new crops for next year is planted and the war is still ongoing then we will see the real problem of the increase in fertilizer prices . This post is just another eye wash.

We fully agree — farmers, consumers & the environment should always be the main focus. That's never been in question for us. But in our 20+ year journey with chemical-free agriculture, we kept asking: if organic & regenerative farming is so clearly better, why hasn't it scaled? The answer came down to three gaps — convenience, efficiency & authenticity. For farmers, going regenerative alone means navigating complex soil science, sourcing the right inputs, managing risk, and finding fair markets — all by themselves. We built a backend ecosystem that becomes their single point of engagement: economy of scale, deep plant nutrition science, inputs & hands-on support through the entire growing cycle. The result? Lower cost of cultivation and yields that match conventional farming — without a single synthetic input. For consumers, the gap was trust. We addressed that with a fully traceable logistics system so every vegetable can be verified as residue-free — not just claimed. We're not a middleman sitting between a farmer and a platform. We're the infrastructure that makes regenerative farming viable, repeatable & scalable for 1,200+ farmers across 6 states. You can see some of this in the video shared in the original post. And we'd genuinely love to host you at one of our hubs to show you this ecosystem firsthand — the proof is always in the farm. 🙏

@anandmahindra The main focus here should be those organic farmers and not these middlemen's @UFCo_India 😁

Exciting news! @IndiaClimCollab has featured UFCo. They highlight how our #regenerativeagriculture model is revolutionizing the food system—boosting farmer profits, driving #climateaction & building a resilient future.🌍 Read here: indiaclimatecollaborative.org/blog/climate-s…

We’re excited to announce that our CEO, @VikashAbraham, will address the Global Bioeconomy Summit (#GBS2024) tomorrow. Alongside global leaders, Mr. Vikash will share innovative approaches and best practices to transform food systems for a more sustainable future!

@ResilienceFood has covered farmer families associated with Urban Farms Co. Check out this story surl.li/ssypr and learn how #UFCO is changing the food system into a positive cycle for the farmer, the nature, and the consumer through #RegenerativeAgriculture

Magnolia champaca, (popular as Lord Shiva’s flower Champa) has a fragrance can rival any flower. I got this as a fledgling plant 3 months ago for my balcony. Did bio inoculation & biome rich composted top soil of @UFCo_India Boy! Bloom & 15 more buds. #RegenerativeAgriculture

Check out @scroll_in's video showcasing Urban Farms Co's work in bringing Regenerative Agriculture to India's farmlands. Thank you to the Scroll team for this in-depth video! youtu.be/UU2kMX-hEOs?si…

Thank you 🙏 Your support and blessings matter a lot to the teams @naandi_india & @UFCo_India Today we have successfully created over 20 Regenerative Agriculture Clusters spread over 3000 villages with 300,000 farmer families converted to this profitable sustainable model.

Deeply grateful for the recognition our work in #RegenerativeAgriculture is receiving. Here's to creating many more success stories on the ground @naandi_india!

Catch today's @HistoryTV18 episode showcasing the wonderful work the @UFCO_India team does in regenerative agriculture. The episode focuses on the prevention of paddy stubble burning and its utilization in reviving nature's nutrient cycles. #FoodSystems #regenerativeagriculture

This has now spread to cities and it’s peripheries thanks to @UFCo_India See how farmers in delhi who only used chemicals & pesticides to grow vegetables are now growing them organically & every crop reaping profits! India can - #AtmaNirbharBharat #SayNoToUrea #Arakunomics 🧵end

Food Prices are going up; Farmers are making Losses; Children are more & more either Obese or Malnourished! See🧵There is something wrong with our Food System. I think time has come for @UFCo_India #arakunomics

Copenhagen is making the Food System debate Sexy. It maybe a tiny artisanal effort but gives tailwind to ⁦@naandi_india⁩ ⁦@arakucoffeein⁩ ⁦@UFCo_India⁩ to create a new ‘FoodPrint’ in India. #arakunomics #RegenerativeAgriculture ft.com/content/9a4583…

Intercropping works as practice where two or more crops are grown in close proximity. This helps in greater yield as the crops can utilise all the resources which generally a single crop can not utilise. The two crops also help each other with nutritional support and pest control

Here he takes our partner farmers around the demo farm, explaining the benefits of planting onion and garlic as intercrop for cabbage. The duo helps the crop by keeping the pests away.

We had the pleasure of hosting Mr Sarvadaman Patel — the doyen of biodynamic farming in India — for a training session at our Delhi hub a few days ago. #UFCoIndia The #regenway