Agritech Startup Kisanserv Giving Back to Farm' Initiative Turning Wet Waste of Metros to Free Organic Compost for Farmers

Centre: Sharma Niranjan (Ceo & Co founder) | Right of NiranjanSharma: Arun Kumar (COO & Cofounder), Durga Shirali, Sushma Tiwari, Mitashi Sinha, Priya Rai, Seema Sharma, Durgesh, Gopal, Pramod, Niketan, Anil | Left of Niranjan Sharma : Pravin Tiwari, Jagan and Ramkrishna.

The company organised a farmers' meet to distribute free organic compost to 200 farmers

With increasing food consumption, urbanisation, growth in large housing societies and lack of dumping ground, wet waste processing has emerged as a major challenge in urban India. Lack of innovative ideas and technology-based solutions have further acted as roadblocks to transform waste to wealth and benefit the farmers. Realising this, leading and responsible agritech startup Kisanserv under its 'Giving Back to Farm' initiative is joining hands with large housing societies to help them process wet waste and turn them into free organic compost for farmers. Kisanserv through its social initiative organized farmers meet in Manchar district of Maharashtra, distributed organic compost to around 200 farmers which was processed and donated by housing societies in Pune.

Keeping sustainability, innovation and technology at its core, the company is trying to find a balance between urban and rural India by transforming waste to wealth to benefit all stakeholders. According to it, the initiative brings multiple benefits such as transforming waste to compost in large residential societies, benefiting farmers with organic compost, enriching soil quality and protecting the environment.

CEO Niranjan Sharma and CTO Praveen Tiwari Distributing Organic compost to farmers of Manchar (Maharashtra) in presence of Kisanserv team

"The wet waste coming out of large housing societies in metros is a burden for urban India. Also, it is tough for societies and municipal corporations to single handedly process it and make it useful. Similarly, farmers too are in need of organic waste at low or free of cost to enrich soil health and eco-friendly farming. This initiative finds a perfect link between the challenges of urban and rural India with a common solution to benefit all. This is a great social service and we feel happy to serve the farmers," said Niranjan Sharma, CEO & Co-Founder.

Kisanserv has joined hands with 3rd parties and large housing societies like Park Royale Housing Society in Pune to help them process wet waste into organic compost. This initiative also helps residential societies to comply with municipal corporations who have made it mandatory to process wet garbage in their society itself by installing a composting machine. Recently, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has said that it would not lift wet waste from as many as 700 residential societies that generate more than 100 kg waste. Instead, the civic body has asked the societies to segregate wet and dry waste and convert wet waste into compost within their premises. The initiative helps such societies process the waste and municipal corporations who are struggling to dump yards for wet garbage by reducing waste.

Kisanserv is currently in Maharashtra having 14 collection centers in rural India. The company is buying fruits and vegetables from farmers directly and serving to its customers in urban India. It uses its reverse logistics to bring back compost from urban India to rural India and distribute the same to farmers free of cost.

KisanServ Wants To Disrupt The Procurement System In India's Agri-Bussiness Space

Making the life's of thousands and thousands of suppliers and buyers out there easier is a Pune based startup called KisanServ. Wholesale markets or mandis are an important part of the businesses of these people but in today's fast paced life, going to a distant mandi isn't always feasible. This is where KisanServ comes into the picture. Instead of a buyer going to the mandi and wasting his precious time stuck in traffic and engaging in futile negotiations, with KisanServ, the mandi comes to them.

KisanServ claims to be a first of a kind virtual mandi platform which aims to make procurement transactions between buyers and suppliers much more transparent and convenient than before.

Procurement has always been a task for as long as businesses have existing. This is majorly because of the lack of transparency and a lot of inconvenience in scheduling these procurements. It’s difficult to go to a mandi every day and ensure that you get the best price every time. Further, there is no guarantee that the deal that you think is good is actually the best deal in the market.

KisanServ increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement system by bringing together the wholesale buyers/suppliers to a common platform that too at the comfort of their home/office.



The platform works in a very simple way. Buyers are required to login, create an indent and then open it for “live” bidding. Once that's open, suppliers are notified about the same and they in exchange quote their price. During the close of bidding, the buyer chooses to go with the supplier with the price that is most suitable for them and confirms the order.

In order to make things easier, the platform comes with a KisanServ dashboard that helps the members to keep a track of their buying patterns so that they can reflect back on them as and when required to take better decisions in the future. Further, the Buyers/suppliers are also ranked are per their service on the platform. According to some members of the platform, their costs have fallen by an average of upto 15 to 20% by using KisanServ.

Praveen, Niranjan, Arun, co-founded the startup with thought that the farmers should also get their much deserved due by being able to sell their produce directly to the traders and getting a good price in return for their hard work. They strongly believe that the Agribusiness should also be open to “unlimited” trading. i.e. it should be assessable to unlimited Buyers and Suppliers throughout India. KisanServ is their effort in achieving all the above.

KisanServ launched their first product on 28th June this year and started with their paid membership drive in Aug end 2015. Currently, they have a total of 200 registered members in Pune, Nashik, Mumbai and Delhi which is growing at a good rate of 30-40% per month.