ABOUT US
India’s First Organic Farmers Producer Company
About Us
Founded in the year 2004 and incorporated under the Companies Act of 1956, The Indian Organic Farmers Producer Company Limited (IOFPCL), headquartered in Aluva, Kerala is the largest organic producer company in India owned by the farmers. We serve more than 2500 primary producer members in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. (IOFPCL) headquartered in Aluva, Kerala is the largest organic producer company in India, owned and run by the farmers, for the farmers. It was setup to embolden the farmers to take on the challenges of production, procurement, processing and marketing of Organic and Fairtrade certified products in the domestic and international markets.
The company aims to cut out the middleman and hence ensures that the farmer
benefits the maximum in the end pricing of his agricultural produce. The company also ensures an
Organic and Fairtrade premium over and above the market price so that the farmer has an incentive
to follow Organic and Fairtrade practices. IOFPCL is registered with the Directorate General of
Foreign Trade as an Importer – Exporter and is a ‘Registered Exporter Member’ of the Spices Board,
Coffee Board, Coconut Board and the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development
Authority (APEDA).
The company has been successful in the wholesale export of Organic and Fairtrade products to Europe and
America for the past 13 years. IOFPCL is certified organic by INDOCERT as per Indian and EU standards. The company
is FLO Fair trade Certified by FLO-CERT Germany.
About Jaiva
Jaiva is the retail brand of IOFPCL with a Jaiva supermarket currently
operating out of IOFPCL’s office headquarters in Aluva, Kerala, India. Plans are afoot to open more
stores in Kerala soon. www.jaivaonline.com is Jaiva’s dedicated e-marketplace where consumers can
purchase the Jaiva brand of products online. The various Jaiva products are procured from IOFPCL’s
member farmers who are Organic and Fairtrade certified, and are value added and packaged by IOFPCL
at Aluva, Kerala. With a total cultivated area spanning 12,793 acres, the main crops grown are:
Wayanad – Coffee, Pepper, Ginger, Turmeric, Vanilla.
Kannur – Cashew, Coconut, Pepper, Vanilla, Ginger, Nutmeg, Cocoa.
Palakkad – Coconut, Cocoa, Pepper, Vanilla, Nutmeg, Rubber
Idukki – Cocoa, Pepper, Vanilla, Nutmeg.
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Sustainability
At Indian Organic Farmers Producer Company Limited, we believe that care for the environment & communities are fundamental to our business & integral to its success. We, therefore, invest substantially & continually to ensure that the environment we operate in is enriched by our activities & any social or environmental damage caused by our actions is minimized. Our products conform to multiple internationally recognized certification standards.
Organic certification
The EU has established the standards, processes & enforcement procedures that govern the right to sell, label & represent products as organic. Our products are certified Fully Organic, under NPOP, by INDOCERT.
Fairtrade
Fairtrade certification is a product certification system where social, economic, and environmental aspects of production are certified against Fairtrade Standards for Producers and Traders. The Fairtrade system monitors the buying and the selling of the product until it is consumer packaged and labeled, by FLOCERT.