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The operating blueprint, unit by unit

Five production systems on one site. Each is run to its own standards and its own P&L — and each is plumbed into the next.

VERTICAL 01

Integrated Livestock & Poultry Farming

A multi-species animal husbandry operation run to modern, cruelty-free standards — with poultry and dairy providing daily cash flow and small ruminants, piggery and rabbitry adding higher-margin cycles on the same feed and manure infrastructure.

Multi-species is a deliberate risk decision. A disease event, a price crash or a seasonal slump in one species does not stop the farm. It also widens the feedstock base for the digester, because different animals produce different manure at different moisture and solids content.

Commercial layer unitGraded table eggs on a daily collection, grading and packing cycle — the farm's baseline revenue.
Free-range & desi poultryBlack Australorp and Desi birds in rotational paddocks under the tree and fodder canopy. Dual-purpose egg and meat value.
Dairy (cows)Green-fodder-led milk production with hygienic milking and chilling, supplying local dairies and direct retail.
Goat rearingStall-fed and browse-based goatery for breeding stock and meat, using moringa and Napier from our own fields.
PiggeryControlled housing with manure routed directly to the digester — the highest-yield feedstock in the system.
RabbitryBroiler rabbit units with excellent feed conversion and a very small land and water footprint.

Practice standards

  • Biosecurity zoning

    Clean and dirty zones, controlled entry, footbaths, vehicle disinfection and visitor protocol across all animal units.

  • All-in / all-out batching

    Batch-wise stocking with full clean-down between cycles to break disease carry-over.

  • Veterinary & vaccination calendar

    Scheduled vaccination, deworming and health monitoring under qualified veterinary supervision.

  • Welfare-first housing

    Ventilation, stocking density, litter management and humane handling written into standard operating procedure.

  • Record-level traceability

    Batch, feed, medication and production records maintained per shed and per herd.

Outputs & where they go

Table eggs → retail & institutional Raw milk → dairies & direct Live & dressed meat → aggregators Breeding stock → farmers Manure & litter → Vertical 04 Organic waste → BSF, Vertical 03

Irrigation & precision systems

  • Drip & sprinkler with fertigation

    Water and liquid organic nutrition delivered at the root zone, cutting consumption and leaching.

  • Soil moisture & weather monitoring

    Plot-level sensing and on-site weather data driving the irrigation and spray calendar.

  • Grid soil testing

    Block-wise soil health mapping so compost and biochar are applied where they are actually needed.

  • Rainwater harvesting & farm pond

    On-site storage to carry the fodder cycle through dry spells and reduce groundwater draw.

  • Mechanised cutting & chaffing

    Multi-cut harvesting and chaff cutting feeding directly into silage, feed and digester lines.

Outputs & where they go

Green fodder & silage → Vertical 01 Moringa leaf → Vertical 03 Drumstick pods & seed → market Urad & Moong → pulse market Crop residue → Vertical 04 Green manure → own fields
VERTICAL 02

Smart Agriculture & Commercial Cultivation

The cropping plan is designed around two anchor crops — Moringa and Super Napier — that are simultaneously a cash crop, a feed ingredient and a digester feedstock, intercropped with pulses that fix nitrogen back into the soil.

This is why the cultivation vertical is not a commodity farm. Every crop in the plan has at least two internal buyers before it ever reaches a mandi, which removes the price risk that normally makes Indian cropping fragile.

Moringa (Sahjan) — high densityClose-spaced plantation managed for repeated leaf harvest, feeding leaf meal production, plus pods and seed for market.
Super Napier grassHigh-yield perennial multi-cut fodder — the backbone of dairy and goat nutrition and a reliable digester feedstock.
Pulse intercroppingUrad and Moong grown between rows to fix atmospheric nitrogen and add an independent cash harvest.
Dhaincha green manureGrown and incorporated in place to build soil nitrogen and organic matter ahead of the next cycle.
Multi-cropping calendarStaggered planting and cutting so green biomass supply to the animals and the digester never breaks.
Contract cultivationSurrounding farmers grow fodder and moringa to our specification with an assured buy-back.
VERTICAL 03

Animal Feed & Pellet Manufacturing

Feed is the largest single cost in livestock farming — routinely the majority of the cost of producing an egg or a litre of milk. Manufacturing it ourselves, from biomass we grew and protein we bred, converts that cost line into a margin line.

The Black Soldier Fly unit is the part that makes the loop genuinely closed. BSF larvae eat organic waste that has no other buyer and convert it into a high-protein, high-fat feed ingredient — while their frass comes out the other side as a fertilizer.

Ration formulationSpecies- and stage-specific rations — layer, grower, cattle, goat and rabbit — formulated for least cost at target nutrition.
Pellet manufacturing lineGrinding, mixing, conditioning, pelletising, cooling and bagging for internal use and external sale.
Black Soldier Fly bioconversionOrganic and kitchen waste converted into larvae protein and fat, plus frass as a nutrient-rich soil input.
Moringa leaf mealDried and milled moringa leaf as a protein and micronutrient supplement in poultry and ruminant rations.
Silage & haySuper Napier processed and preserved so green nutrition is available through the lean season.
Quality controlMoisture, protein and contaminant testing with batch-level traceability on every lot produced.

Why in-house feed changes the economics

  • Margin stays inside

    The manufacturer's margin on feed is captured by the company instead of paid to a third-party mill.

  • Insulation from ingredient shocks

    Maize and soya price spikes hit competitors directly. Our own green biomass and BSF protein absorb part of that swing.

  • Formulation control

    Rations are tuned to our own flock and herd performance data, not to a generic commercial spec.

  • A second market

    Surplus pellets, leaf meal and BSF protein are sold to neighbouring farms, FPOs and aquaculture units.

Outputs & where they go

Pelleted feed → Vertical 01 Pelleted feed → external farms & FPOs BSF larvae meal → poultry & aqua feed BSF frass → Vertical 05 Moringa leaf meal → feed market

From waste stream to energy product

  • Feedstock security

    Most Indian biogas projects fail on feedstock. Ours is produced on site, every single day, by our own animals and fields.

  • Anaerobic digestion

    Manure, litter and crop residue are digested to produce raw biogas for on-farm thermal and power use.

  • Upgrading to CBG

    Purification and carbon-dioxide removal, compression and cascade storage to produce Compressed Bio Gas to specification.

  • Densified bio-pellets

    Crop residue and woody biomass pressed into bio-pellets and CBG pellets as a fuel for industrial and commercial boilers.

  • Digestate is not waste

    Fermented organic manure and liquid slurry leave the digester as a graded, saleable soil input.

Outputs & where they go

Biogas → own thermal & power load Compressed Bio Gas → OMC offtake under SATAT Bio-pellets → industrial boilers Digestate → Vertical 05 Fermented organic manure → farmers
VERTICAL 04

Bio-Energy, Biogas & CBG Plant Operations

The bio-energy vertical is where an operating cost becomes an asset. Manure and residue that any conventional farm has to spend money clearing become the feedstock for a renewable energy plant with a national offtake framework behind it.

Compressed Bio Gas is the single highest-value conversion of farm waste available in India today, and the SATAT framework exists specifically to give producers a route to market through oil marketing companies. Bio-pellets add a second, lower-capex energy product that monetises the dry residue the digester does not want.

Biogas digesterContinuous digestion of manure, litter and green residue producing gas for on-farm heat and power.
CBG purification & compressionGas upgrading, moisture and CO₂ removal, compression and cascade storage to commercial specification.
Bio-pellet & CBG pellet lineDensification of dry crop residue into a transportable solid fuel for commercial and industrial users.
Digestate handlingSeparation into solid fermented organic manure and liquid fraction for fertigation and compost enrichment.
Safety & environmental controlsGas detection, flaring, effluent management and statutory consents maintained as a standing discipline.
Offtake structuringCommercial arrangements pursued with oil marketing companies and industrial fuel buyers.
VERTICAL 05

Organic Fertilizers & Waste-to-Wealth Processing

This vertical is the closing bracket of the loop. Everything the other four produce and cannot use — digestate, frass, litter, crop residue, woody trimmings — arrives here and leaves as a graded, bagged, saleable soil input.

It also serves the farm itself. The compost and biochar that go back onto our own fields reduce the fertilizer bill of Vertical 02, which lowers the cost of the fodder that feeds Vertical 01. The loop does not just avoid waste — it compounds.

Vermicompost productionEarthworm-based composting beds under controlled moisture and temperature, with sieving, grading and packing.
BiocharControlled pyrolysis of woody residue into a stable carbon soil amendment that improves water and nutrient retention.
Organic manure & FOMComposted and fermented organic manure produced from digestate and farmyard residue to consistent specification.
Liquid bio-fertiliserLiquid fraction and bio-stimulant preparations for fertigation on our own fields and for sale.
Testing & FCO complianceBatch testing against Fertilizer Control Order parameters with labelled, traceable packaging.
Retail & FPO distributionBranded bagged inputs sold through agri-retail, FPOs and direct farmer channels.

What comes in, what goes out

Input streamProduct
Digestate from the CBG plantFermented organic manure, liquid bio-fertiliser
Poultry litter & animal manureVermicompost, enriched organic manure
BSF frass from the feed unitNutrient-rich compost blend
Crop residue & green wasteCompost feedstock, bio-pellet feedstock
Woody trimmings & pruningsBiochar

Outputs & where they go

Compost & biochar → Vertical 02 Bagged vermicompost → agri-retail Biochar → horticulture & nurseries Liquid bio-fertiliser → FPOs & farmers
Site Layout

How the five verticals sit on one piece of land

Physical layout is what makes integration cheap. Distance between a manure source and a digester is a cost; adjacency is a saving.

Animal zone

Layer and free-range poultry sheds, dairy shed and milking area, goat and pig housing, rabbitry — grouped behind a common biosecurity perimeter with a single controlled entry.

Biosecure perimeterQuarantine bay

Cultivation zone

Super Napier blocks, high-density moringa, pulse intercrop plots and green manure strips, served by drip mains, a farm pond and rainwater harvesting structures.

Drip networkFarm pond

Processing zone

Feed and pellet plant, BSF bioconversion unit, raw material and finished goods stores, weighbridge and dispatch — sited between the fields and the animal zone.

Pellet lineBSF unit

Energy zone

Digester, gas holder, upgrading and compression skid, cascade storage and flare — placed downstream of the animal zone with safe setback distances and its own access road.

DigesterCBG skid

Organics zone

Vermicompost beds under shade, biochar kilns, curing and sieving yard, and bagging and storage — adjacent to the digestate outlet.

VermibedsBiochar kilns

Support & people

Administration and records office, veterinary and quality-testing room, worker amenities and training space, machinery shed, solar array and water treatment.

Vet & QC roomTraining space
Go Deeper

See how the five units close the loop

The circular model page sets out the nutrient, energy, protein and carbon loops that connect these verticals — and how we intend to measure them.