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Organika Farms

Joining hands with the local farmers

“Organika Farms was founded by three professionals with one common passion – their love for nature and all things natural. Padma Iyer Kaul a career civil servant, Divya Kaul an educationist and Anuraag Kaul an Insurance Professional. Their diverse professional backgrounds make for a vibrant organization and have helped create the brand ‘Organika’ which stands for integrity and creating value for the consumer through pure, natural food at reasonable prices. While Padma and Divya have committed themselves full time to ‘Organika’, Anuraag has chosen to be the friend, philosopher and guide to this initiative”

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What is growing on the Farm ?

We are farmers at heart so we experiment with everything! The farm grows cereals, spices, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and sugarcane. We also grow timber and fodder and attempt to be self-sufficient. The farm grows pure organic food based on a mixed cropping pattern. Using green manuring, ecological diversity, crop rotation and several traditional farming practices, the farm is constantly experimenting with diverse crops. These have helped us understand the soil, climate and productivity possibilities on a sustainable commercial basis. As we journey towards turning the farm into a model unit, the local farmers are turning to organic farming slowly but steadily. The farm is also surrounding itself with trees – medicinal, timber yielding, ornamental, fruit bearing and fodder trees. Jamun, anar, Phalsa, Amaltas, Gulmohar, Sehjan………..you name it and we will plant it! The farm products presently sell under the brand name of ‘Organika’.

Cereals

Wheat, Rice, Jowar, Bajra,
Quinoa

Spices

Methi, Coriander, Turmeric, Ginger...

Pulses

Moong, Urad, Green Chana, Kala Chana, Masoor, Arhar

Oilseeds

Seasame, Flaxseeds, Groundnut, Mustard...

Sweeteners

Sugarcane, Beetroot

Why choose Organika

Organika Farms

At Organika we are farmers at heart. With an operational farm, in Pach-Hara Mathura district we work with the soil and put to practice all that we preach!

History

Organika Farms started as a post retirement dream of the founders – a civil servant (Padma Iyer Kaul), an education professional (Divya Kaul) and an insurance professional (Anuraag Kaul).  Joined by their common passion for being close to nature, they decided to put to good use the passion of Padma Iyer Kaul for growing chemical free organic food and flowers in the government residences they lived in for 25 years!


They started Organika Farms in June 2017, on a 4-acre plot leased in Adhoi village, District Ambala, to start growing organic food and test waters before taking the final plunge. Every weekend one of them would head for Ambala and spend two days experimenting with soil, seeds and cows. They joined the organic farming community to understand the farming methods and the whole growing process. These joyful weekends led them to acquire a 10 acre plot in village Pach-Hara Mathura District.


Despite no chemical fertilizers or pesticides they grew everything. Nature was kind and bountiful and very forgiving of all their mistakes (well, not always as they lost a whole crop of sesame to caterpillars!). However very soon what started as a weekend venture took over their entire life. They realized that growing organic and healthy food could not be a part-time activity. Divya resigned first from her teaching career. Soon Padma an Additional Secretary rank officer with the Department of Telecom resigned 6 years before her retirement to turn full time organic farmer.

Our Team

Padma Iyer Kaul

A career civil servant she worked for 28 years in the government reaching the level of an Additional Secretary in the Department of Telecom. Prior to taking voluntary retirement to pursue her passion to grow organic food, she has held several portfolios ranging from policy making to implementation to operations. As Director in the Economic Advisory Council to the PM a charge she held for five years, she was responsible for analysing macroeconomic issues with policy implications. As Executive Director in the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority she was responsible for implementing and operationalizing the National Pension System and a pension scheme for 

the underprivileged. It was here, during her interactions with NGOs, Farmer Groups, Milk Farmers and Micro Finance Institutions that seeds of her first thoughts around creating an organization in rural India were sown. This rural focus continued in her last posting in the Department of Telecom as Additional Administrator USoF, where she was responsible for the financial management of a Rs 40,000 crore GoI fund created for providing digital connectivity to rural India.

The rural interface in her career, her experience in handling large projects and her analytical data skills combined with her passion for plants and nature led to her founding Organika Farms – a start up with the ambition to change the way our food is grown – one farm at a time. Her happiest moments are those that she spends with the plants in her farm and her garden!!

She is a post graduate in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a Management Graduate. She is a team player, enjoys writing, loves movies and adores Kishore Kumar.

Divya Kaul

A post graduate in Sociology with two decades of experience in the education industry. Divya has taught in reputed schools like Scindia School Gwalior, DPS Ghaziabad, KR Mangalam Delhi. With a keen interest in nature and environment she became part of Organika Farms, as a family venture. Her desire to grow clean and healthy food led her to farming and partnering with Padma.

Anuraag Kaul

An insurance professional with 30 years of experience in the sector, he presently works as the whole time Director and Principal Officer of JK Risk Managers and Insurance Brokers Ltd a Singhania Group Company. He featured in the Economic Times list of Inspiring  CEO’ s of 2021 for his exceptional leadership during the pandemic and also for his innovative foray into rural insurance. 

He was also a first-generation entrepreneur and started his company Arankari Risk Management Services in 2001. It is this passion and vision for building organizations from scratch and being in it for the long haul that led him get into yet another venture – organic food. His ability to plan, mentor and ideate is the bedrock of Organika. He helped set up the Farm and the Companies Desire Foods and Organika Farms and Foods Private Limited. He now spends a lot of time in setting targets and goals for the venture. He is a post graduate in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a Management Graduate. He describes himself as someone with strong family values, high financial integrity. He is widely travelled, supports several causes and loves to mentor youngsters.