With an innovative polymer composite material used to make containers for the hydroponics, doing away with coolers or chillers, Eeki Foods grows three times the yield of conventional farming, by using 80 percent less water
Abhay Singh and Amit Kumar have been friends from their first week at IIT-Bombay in 2009. They started Eeki Foods in 2018, and, for the first three years, focussed their efforts on researching and developing their own version of hydroponics, on a 10,000 sq ft plot. They’re now in the process of scaling from five acres currently to 40 acres in a couple of months, and 200 acres by the end of the year.
(This story appears in the 24 February, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)