Welcome to Kalasam

Kalasam Sacred Herbs and Foods Private Limited (KSHFPL) is a unique startup of its kind, going to be the first Organic Food Park (OFP) in the country with shareholders and stakeholders from Farmer Producer Companies, engaged in production and supply of certified organic herbs and agri produces, social entrepreneurs who have competence in value addition and marketing, organic brands both in India and abroad.

  • Kalasam Sacred Herbs and Foods Private Limited (KSHFPL) is a company experienced in farmer mobilization and training them to convert from chemical to organic cultivation, get them organically certified and help them to remain certified.
  • We are a company into social business of promoting Natural Farming and traditional medicine.
  • KSHF forms a part of Kalasam Group of Organizations and the Gram Mooligai Group who are the pioneers in the Certified Organic produce and authentic Herbal Raw Drug Industry. They are the creators of India's onlysurviving EMF Forest.

Who We Are

Kalasams are the child of Not for profit organization CCD (The Covenant Centre for Development) (CCD) Madurai-originated NGO, active primarily in the drought prone areas of Tamil Nadu state in the south & 4 central Indian states (M. P., Maharshtra, Chhattisgarh & Orissa).

It promotes medicinal plants and agriculture based sustainable livelihoods for poverty alleviation in the drylands and forest areas, for the women, the landless and the small farmers, including the backward/ scheduledcastes/tribes.

Our Vision

Our Vision is to be India's Leading Raw Drug supplier from organically certified produces directly from the primary producers to the end users, and further be the worlds most prominent household name in the D2C Segments in Partnership with multiple FPO's has pledged to uplift the life of Farmers and Local tribes and has comeup with various programme and welfare measures for them. Our aim is to ensure meeting the sustainable development goals (STG).

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Mission and Strength

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Our Mission

Kalasam mission is to build community institutions and enterprises for long term sustainability using local resources and traditional skills (LRTS) aided by the modern technology. Kalasam believes in promoting sustainable agricultural technologies that are based on farmers’ knowledge and skills, their innovation based on local conditions and their use of nature’s products and processes to gain better control over the pre-production.

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Our Strengths

  •   Farm to firm is the key for us
  •   Sourcing from primary producer- collectors and cultivators
  •   Immediate benefit to primary producers fair price throughout year
  •   Able to ensure quality and authenticity to buyers
  •   Traceability from collection point to consumption point
  •   Transparency in commercial transactions
  •   Social Security Cover and incentives
  •   Operating through FPOs and CBOs Networks - Expansion

Our Product

Successful products we've done

RED CHILLI

GROUNDNUT

Kalasam Work Areas

Business Verticals

Sourcing

Sourcing of Authentic herbs and naturally grown agri produce for end users!

Processing

Primary Manufacturing and processing at the
farm gate.

Sales

Optimizing the existing social infra at the grass root level reaching out the unreached

Wellness

Creation of Wellness through Food and Lifestyle Centers for well being

Our Products

How We Operate

Collection

Direct sourcing from PPGs; model established over 18 years
groomer.

Cultivation

Organically certified and commercially demanded high value medicinal plant and agri produces experience

Semi-Processing

Supplying intermediary products – Third party
processing

Marketing

Direct sale to the
customers

Scalability

Replicating the model through NGOs and their CBOs in other regions

Key to Success

Training and empowering women and farmers

Our Journey

Organise the unorganized primary producers into Group at the grass root level, cluster at Panchayat and federate them at as an APEX Org.
1992
Registered them as community based org and confederate to mutual sharing and learning from CBO's
1996
Registered the First social enterprise among the Medicinal plant gatherers, cultivators and healers
1999
First Farmer producer company called Aaharam traditional Crop Prod co ltd for rain fed farmers
2005
Duplication of 24 FPO's under Producer organisation promoting institution of NABARD
2014
25 additional FPO's promoted under cluser based business org of Central sponsored programme
2019
Management Restructure to synergize and create a structure to scale up
2023
Creation of a Unique Business Model using FPO's under the KSHF Umbrella
2024

Certifications We Hold

THE LIST OF CERTIFICATIONS AVAILABLE WITH US

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