Sourcing and trade, on the ground.
Supplier discovery, factory audits, trade facilitation, and corridor-ready playbooks for agri companies moving goods across borders.
Global sourcing for agriculture is not a procurement exercise — it is a corridor exercise. The difference matters. Procurement finds a supplier that meets a spec and signs a purchase order. Corridor thinking asks: what are the five suppliers we want qualified across India and Vietnam, what does regulatory look like at both ends, which customs classification unlocks the lowest landed cost, which of these suppliers has capacity headroom for our growth, and which JV or long-term agreement gives us priority when capacity is tight next monsoon.
We run sourcing as a corridor engagement. Our partners have stood inside Indian crop-protection plants, Vietnamese processing facilities, and APAC consolidation warehouses — which means the shortlist we produce is filtered by what those sites actually do, not what their brochure claims. The audit we run is the audit we'd run before our own firm committed a purchase order. And the negotiation we support is the negotiation we have run when we carried the buying authority ourselves.
Outbound trade — Indian agri firms exporting into MENA, EU, APAC, or Africa — is the mirror image of the same skill set. DGFT registration, HS-code optimisation, buyer discovery through on-the-ground relationships, and trade-finance structuring that doesn't blow working capital.
Six engagements we take on.
- Supplier discovery
- Longlist → qualified shortlist against your spec. Built from our working network plus structured primary discovery. 5–8 qualified candidates in 3–4 weeks.
- Factory audit
- Two-day site audit covering capacity, quality systems, regulatory and compliance, and commercial references. Written audit report in 10 working days with a hire / don't-hire recommendation.
- Commercial negotiation
- Supplier-side commercial conversation led by an AgPro partner, or support sitting alongside your procurement team. Contract review by local counsel included.
- Corridor strategy
- Multi-country sourcing footprint built against demand risk, capacity risk, and regulatory risk. Which country for which SKU, which backup, which minimum annual commitment.
- Export readiness
- HS classification, DGFT registration, export-documentation playbook, buyer-discovery programme. Trade-finance structuring with banks we've worked with across corridors.
- Import + customs
- BCD / IGST / cess cost stacking, customs classification optimisation, FSSAI / CIBRC import interface, and clearance-readiness for first shipments.
Where we have standing relationships.
India outbound
Agrochemicals, tractor implements, processed food, and seeds moving into MENA, EU, SE Asia, and East Africa. Long-standing buyer and distributor relationships in Dubai, Rotterdam, Ho Chi Minh, and Nairobi.
India inbound
Global sourcing into India from EU (specialty chemistry), China (intermediates, components), and SE Asia (processed ingredients). Customs and regulatory interface built for inbound complexity.
Cross-APAC
SE Asia to India, India to Bangladesh / Sri Lanka / Nepal, and intra-ASEAN flows in agri inputs and food processing — where duty structures shift meaningfully against specific HS classifications.
Commonly bundled with
Clear answers before the call.
- Yes. Inbound: overseas firms sourcing from India — agrochemicals, machinery components, processed food, seeds — and needing supplier discovery, audit, and commercial negotiation. Outbound: Indian firms exporting into APAC, MENA, EU, or Africa and needing HS classification, buyer discovery, and trade-finance structuring.
- Technical capacity, quality systems (ISO / GMP / HACCP as applicable), regulatory documentation, environmental and labour compliance, capacity-vs-commitment reconciliation, and commercial references from existing customers. We file a written audit report within 10 working days of the site visit.
- Yes — we run the commercial conversation end-to-end or sit alongside your procurement team, depending on preference. Contracts are reviewed by Indian / local legal counsel. We do not charge sourcing commissions; our fee is a fixed engagement fee so we stay aligned with your unit economics.
- A qualified shortlist of 5–8 suppliers against your spec typically lands within 3–4 weeks. Shortlist comes from our working network plus structured discovery — not from trade directories or online marketplaces.