Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India

Wild Botanical
Ingredients from
Ancient Forests

Standardised, traceable, buyer-specified ingredient intermediates from the minor forest produces of Central India — for the global fragrance, pharma, spirits and specialty food industries.

5
Hero Produces
70%
Forest Cover, Bastar
3
Global Industries
Bastar Forest Canopy
Bastar Forest Reserve · Chhattisgarh
5 Lakh+
Quintals Annual Potential
Mahua alone yields over 5 lakh quintals per year across Chhattisgarh — less than 1% currently reaching premium B2B markets.
2,000+
Village Collectors
A deep network of tribal Self Help Groups and forest collectors forming the ethical, community-first supply chain foundation.
100%
Wild-Harvested Origin
Every produce is wild-harvested from natural forest stands — no cultivation, no monoculture, no industrial inputs.
Forest Floor · Bastar
Mahua Drying
70%
Forest Cover
The Forest

Where Every
Ingredient Begins

The forests of Bastar cover over 70% of the region's land area. They are home to some of India's most biodiverse wild botanical resources — many of which have never been offered to global ingredient buyers at the quality and documentation standard they require.

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Wild Provenance
All produces are harvested from natural forest stands in the Bastar region — guaranteeing the bioactive profiles that cultivated sources cannot replicate.
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Specification-First
We build procurement backwards from buyer specifications — moisture targets, active compound percentages, microbial limits, and packaging requirements are defined before collection begins.
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Full Documentation
Every lot arrives with a Certificate of Analysis, botanical authentication, lot traceability code, harvest date and collector group identification.
The Community

Built With the
Forest's People

The tribal communities of Bastar have harvested these forests for generations. Our model does not extract value from them — it amplifies theirs. Every procurement decision is structured to deliver above-market prices, infrastructure investment, and long-term partnership to the collectors who make this possible.

Fair Pricing
Collectors receive prices above the government Minimum Support Price, reviewed each season as buyer prices improve.
SHG Partnership
We work directly with Self Help Groups — building their documentation capability, not bypassing them for lower cost.
Infrastructure
We co-invest in drying sheets, moisture meters, food-grade packaging and sorting tables at the collection point.
Knowledge Transfer
Quality training in lot coding, moisture control and hygienic handling is delivered at the village level — in Hindi.
Tribal Community · Bastar
Tribal women collectors in north Bastar. Over 2,000 households participate in the annual mahua and tamarind harvest — our supply chain is built on their knowledge and labour.
The Produces

Six Ingredient
Platforms

Nagarmotha / Cypriol
Very High Priority
Nagarmotha
Cyperus scariosus
Perfumery Aromatherapy Ayurveda
Steam-distilled cypriol oil with woody, earthy, smoky sesquiterpene profile. GC-MS certified, IFRA documented. The strongest perfume-industry fit in our portfolio — fragrance houses already understand and buy cypriol.
Mahua Flower
High Priority
Mahua
Madhuca longifolia
Spirits Fermentation Food Ingredient
Food and fermentation-grade dried flower with 41% total sugars. Hygienically solar-dried, moisture-controlled, batch-coded lots for craft distillers, botanical beverage developers and flavour houses.
Tamarind
Very High Priority
Tamarind
Tamarindus indica
Food & Beverage Pharma Excipient Hydrocolloid
Dual revenue stream — tamarind concentrate and paste for food and beverage, plus tamarind kernel powder (TKP) and tamarind seed polysaccharide for pharma excipient and industrial hydrocolloid buyers.
Kalmegh
High Priority
Kalmegh
Andrographis paniculata
Pharma Nutraceutical Ayurvedic
Standardised extract with HPLC-verified andrographolide percentage. Available as shade-dried leaf, powder, and 10–30% standardised extract. For immunity, liver support and bitter tonic formulations.
Teekhur Starch
Specialty
Teekhur
Curcuma angustifolia
Clean-Label Food Medical Nutrition Excipient R&D
East Indian arrowroot starch — 97% carbohydrate purity, 32% amylose. A Bastar-origin clean-label starch for infant and medical nutrition, gut-friendly food formulations and pharma excipient R&D.
Lac / Shellac
Established Market
Lac / Shellac
Kerria lacca
Pharma Coating Food Glaze Cosmetics
Kusumi and rangini lac from Chhattisgarh — the largest lac-producing state in India. Processed shellac for pharmaceutical tablet coating, food-grade glazing and cosmetic applications.
The Value Chain

From Forest Floor
to Buyer Specification

We do not simply aggregate and resell raw produce. We insert a precision value-addition layer between the forest collector and the global ingredient buyer — delivering consistency, documentation and quality that raw material traders cannot provide.

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Wild Harvest
Tribal SHG collectors. Lot-coded by village, date and collector group. No soil contact protocols.
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Cleaning & Grading
Sorting tables, sieves, metal detection. Foreign matter removal. Grade separation by quality.
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Controlled Drying
Solar and hybrid dryers. Moisture targets met per produce. No smoke contamination for perfumery/spirits lots.
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Lab Testing
NABL-accredited third-party labs. Moisture, microbial, heavy metals, pesticides, active compounds per buyer spec.
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Buyer Dispatch
COA, SDS, botanical authentication, traceability code. Food-grade packing. Phytosanitary documentation where required.
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Certificate of Analysis
Every shipment includes a third-party COA covering all parameters the buyer specifies — not a template, a real test result.
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Lot Traceability
Every lot traceable to the village, collector group, harvest date and processing batch — via QR code, NFC or barcode.
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Organic Pathway
NPOP organic certification in progress for key produces. Wild-harvested by nature; formal certification follows the buyer requirement.
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Consistent Grading
Repeat orders receive comparable quality. We maintain retain samples from every batch and a grading reference library.
Industries Served

Three Global
Markets

Our produces enter global ingredient supply chains across three distinct B2B markets, each with its own buyer profile, quality requirements and documentation standards.

Perfumery Industry
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Perfumery
Nagarmotha (cypriol) oil is a recognised natural ingredient in fine fragrance and aromatherapy. We supply GC-MS certified oil with IFRA documentation and allergen declarations for fragrance houses and aroma traders.
Nagarmotha Oil Dried Rhizome Mahua Absolute
Pharma & Nutraceutical
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Pharma & Nutra
Standardised botanical extracts, functional starches and natural polymers for pharmaceutical formulations, nutraceutical brands and Ayurvedic pharma companies — backed by HPLC marker assays and pharmacopoeia-aligned specifications.
Kalmegh Extract Teekhur Starch Tamarind TKP Shellac
Spirits & Fermentation
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Spirits & Food
Mahua flower — with 41% fermentable sugars and a deep India-origin heritage story — is a compelling ingredient for craft distilleries, botanical gin producers and experimental beverage developers seeking indigenous alternatives to conventional botanicals.
Mahua Flower Tamarind Conc. Botanical Extracts
Traceability System

Every Lot, Every
Step, Documented

Global ingredient buyers increasingly require not just a certificate of analysis, but the full story behind it — who collected, where, when, how it was processed, and what the test results showed. We have built that system from the forest floor up.

Village-level lot coding — every batch tagged to its collector SHG, district, and GPS-approximate harvest zone
Processing batch records — drying time, temperature, moisture readings, and grading notes for every lot
NABL lab test reports — third-party verified, matched to the lot code and available on demand
Retain samples — every dispatched batch has a retain sample stored for 24 months for buyer verification
Digital trace access — buyers can verify their lot's origin and test data via NFC tap, QR scan or barcode lookup
Lot #BAS-MHW-2025-0147
Mahua Flower · Food/Fermentation Grade
Origin Village Chitrakote, North Bastar
Collector Group Saraswati SHG (18 women)
Harvest Date March 14–18, 2025
Moisture (tested) 9.4% ✓
Total Plate Count <10³ CFU/g ✓
Aflatoxin Not detected ✓
COA Reference NABL/2025/04/0147
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NFC Tag
Tap with any smartphone to access full lot data and COA
QR / Barcode
Scan to access the complete lot dossier and test reports
Replantation Drive · Bastar
5,000+
Saplings · Year 1 Target
Replantation Drives

Giving Back to
the Forest

Commercial extraction without replenishment is not a business model — it is depletion. Every tonne of produce we bring to market funds replantation of the host species in degraded forest zones of Bastar. We partner with the CG Forest Department, tribal gram sabhas and CGMFPFED for species-appropriate, location-specific restoration.

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Host Species Restoration
Nagarmotha, Mahua and Kalmegh are replanted in degraded zones where over-harvesting has reduced natural stands — prioritised by forest department biodiversity assessments.
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Collector-Led Nurseries
SHG women run on-site nurseries producing saplings from locally-sourced seed stock. Nursery income supplements collection income in the off-season.
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Buyer Contribution Programme
B2B buyers can opt into our replantation contribution programme — a per-kilogram addition that directly funds verified planting events, with GPS-tagged photographic records provided annually.
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We are in active buyer discovery. If you are a fragrance house, ingredient distributor, pharma company, distillery, flavour house or nutraceutical brand — we want to understand your specifications before we produce anything. Tell us what you need.

📍 Raipur / Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India
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