Arya Collateral Warehousing Services

Arya.ag, India’s largest grain commerce platform, connects sellers and buyers of agriproduce, providing complete assurance on quantity, quality, and payments. The platform eliminates distress sales of farmers’ produce by enabling farmgate storage and seamless finance options, offering farmers the freedom of when and whom to sell to. With visibility into over 10,000 commodity storage points across the country, Arya assures year-round supply to SME and corporate buyers with embedded financing options. Arya’s clients include farmers, farmer producer organizations (FPOs), financial institutions, SME Agri processors, commodity traders, and corporate agribusinesses. Arya also offers warehouse receipt financing via Aryadhan, its wholly-owned NBFC subsidiary. Aryadhan provides credit to farmers, FPOs, and SME aggregators (processors/traders) who have stored Agri commodities in the Arya warehouse network. Powered by an exponentially growing layer of visibility and control currently stretching across 425 districts in 21 states, 10,000 warehouses, and USD 2 billion of grain, arya.ag offers the assurance of quality supply to buyers and on-time fair payment for their produce and allied services to sellers. It seamlessly embeds finance to maximize value for both sellers and buyers and the platform facilitates over USD 600 Mn of finance annually. The founders of Arya—Chattanathan Devarajan, Prasanna Rao, and Anand Chandra—have decades of experience in agri-business and agri-finance. Under their leadership, Arya has worked towards the creation of a trust, efficient networks, and enduring value for players across the value chain including small-holder farmers, FPOs, small aggregators, and agribusiness corporations. With an established product-market fit with differentiated efficiencies, proven scale, and profitability managing over 3 million metric tons across 21 states, the company has created a strong foundation while building viable options for enhancing the market power of smallholders and their organizations.