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Building global marketsfor Indian farmers.

People, farms and markets, connected. We exist to give the families who grow coconut a dependable market — every day of the year — and a route to buyers they could never reach alone.

Harvested coconut heaped among the palms, ready for collection
A FreshNet truck collecting harvested coconut in the grove

The farmer network

A network built one farm gate at a time.

Smallholder families across three southern states sell to us — at village collection centres and at the farm gate.

Coconuts being unloaded at the collection yard
Loading coconuts at the farm gate
Sorting coconut by hand at the warehouse

How we buy

Terms a farmer can count on.

Six commitments that shape every purchase.

The people in the chain

Who makes it work.

Hover or tap to meet each group. Individual farmer stories will follow, shared with their consent.

Farmer story cards (photo, name, village, story) appear here once consented stories are supplied.

Impact

What changes close to the farm.

Figures FreshNet reported in 2024. We publish measured impact only — where we don't yet measure something, we don't claim it.

Market access

A market every day

Collection centres in the villages stay open 365 days a year, and every grade is bought.

Livelihoods

Work with support

Yard and packhouse workers were reported to receive shelter, drinking water, electricity and health insurance alongside wages.

Value creation

More from each coconut

Husk and shell are sold as cocopeat and shell, not left behind. By-products

Close to the farms

Infrastructure where the coconut grows.

Our packhouse, warehouses and yards sit in the Pollachi coconut belt, close to the farms we buy from. Hover or tap a site.

Farmer, FPO, processor or buyer?

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