Instituted in 2011, Mangalam Seeds is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company engaged in producing and delivering high quality seeds with specialisation in spices and forage crops. With a vision of Being the most preferred seed brand in India in major crops like cumin seeds, castor seeds, fennel seeds, lucerene seeds, sesame seeds, fodder bajra seeds etc, its Promoter Mafatlal Patel, with his rich agricultural experience established Mangalam Seeds Corporation, a partnership firm in 2007, accompanied by technical expertise of its eminent agricultural scientist I.D. Patel and backed by intense research and development. With handful of hybrids already developed with continuous research and development, its promoters acknowledging the growth prospects the seed industry offers, converted the partnership firm and incorporated the company under the name ‘Mangalam Seeds Limited’ in 2011.

The company makes conscious efforts to produce better and different varieties of seeds. The company has R&D farms measuring approximately 29.17 acres to carry on its research activities. The company has set up 2 greenhouses and 2 open poly houses and adequate tube wells for uninterrupted water supply.

The company has strong marketing channels in Gujarat and Rajasthan, comprising of around 154 distributors, more than 1840 dealers and retailers to support marketing. It is seasonally organizing farmers and dealers meeting including farm demonstration. The company is also putting its products on TV and news paper for advertising and field meetings with farmers to support marketing. Driven by rich agricultural experience, increasing thrust on R&D, expectations of continued Government support, the company foresees to expand its operations from Gujarat and Rajasthan to PAN India basis. The company wants to continue developing high yielding, diseases and pest resistant varieties in its crops and focus on value addition by assimilating the latest technologies and global best practices.

Business area of the company

At present, the company is offering a wide range of seeds categorised as ‘research seeds’ and ‘hybrid seeds’. Research seeds are high quality seeds, being produced by a backward integration process and offers natural nutrient qualities. Hybrid seeds on the other hand, are produced through open pollination and cross pollination process. As on date it has developed 16 varieties of seeds. Further, the company has a collection of around 976 varieties of germplasm in various crops. Its products are being marketed under various brand names like Eklavya, Volina, Leetos, Juddo etc. Currently, the company has obtained 15 trademarks and already applied for 55 others to secure these brand names and logos.