Agriculture Wholesale Businesses Seeking Loan

We are a rice exporting company. The products will be sourced locally from suppliers in Hyderabad and we plan to export it to clients abroad. We are still in the planning stage and yet to decide the target market and we plan to discuss this with the investor/lender.

- Company involved in the import and wholesale of fruits and cattle feed. - Its customers are fruit wholesalers across India and Gaushalas and tabelas in Maharashtra. - The transportation of goods is done through a sister concern. - We are in talks with a Gaushala in Nashik that wants to purchase 200 tons of cattle feed for over 1,000 cows.

The business procures and sells betel leaves. We buy the betel leaves from farmers and have tie-ups with 100 farmers. After procuring, we sell it to 40 wholesale clients on a regular basis. Promoter has a business experience of 20+ years. Business owned assets include office equipment, laptop and furniture.

- We are an agriculture product wholesale business. We sell products under our brand name. - The products are either packed by our vendors or by our company. - The packing capacity of the business depends on the product and the package size. - Our products are sold in 6 states that are Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Delhi. - Have a network of 30 vendors from whom we procure the products. - We assign a manager in each state who takes care of procuring orders and onboarding clients as well as maintaining the distribution network. - We are in the process of signing third-party contacts for pickles to be sold under our brand name. - The sales of the business have been impacted by the lack of funds. - We have a large number of employees as we need a lot of people for packaging and also for marketing operations. - Promoter has 3.5 years of experience in the industry. - We have FSSAI, GST, and barcode licenses.

- Engaged in the trading of exotic fruits and vegetables. - Primarily source exotic fruits from Asia and other fruits and vegetables from different European countries. - We have about 10 suppliers in total. - Our corporate headquarters is in Colombo, Sri Lanka where all administrative and finance functions are undertaken. All our operations takes place in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. - We import the produce into Iraq where it is processed, assorted and packed to be sold to our customers. - All products are sold under our own proprietary brand. - We only sell to B2B clients like hotels, juice manufacturers and caterers. - Sell about 80-100 MT per month and cater to about 15-20 orders each week. - Physical assets owned by the business include processing equipment, 2 refrigerated trucks, a transport vehicle and other operating assets. - We also employ several contract staff to help with the operations. - We are also open to selling preferential shares instead of raising debt.

- We run a training institution and a small scale agricultural produce market business. - Have 300 students currently being trained at our institute. - We also grow and sell agricultural products for the retail market. - Have hired around 50 to 60 members to produce and sell our agricultural products. - Once we have 300 members in the agriculture vertical we would convert it to a farmer producer company. - Promoter has 5 years of experience in the field of agriculture and more than 20 in the field of education.

- Wholesale business trading fruits and vegetables in Ramnagara. - Vegetables & fruits are purchased from 20 - 25 suppliers and sold to around 200 retailers in the APMC market. - The promoter sells about 25 - 50 crates of fruits and vegetables per day. - These are perishables and are sold on a day to day basis. - Seeking to expand our trading portfolio by adding coconut wholesale trading. - The coconuts will be sourced from Mysore and sold in Bangalore. - We expect our turnover to increase to INR 4 lakh per month with the addition of coconuts. - However, our overall operating margins are expected to drop to 10% from 25% as coconut wholesale is a low-margin business. - Promoter has experience of 8 years in agricultural produce wholesale.