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Olam India has grown to become one of the largest and most diversified agri-commodity companies in the country.
We began operations in 1992 with a single cashew-trading office in Mumbai. Since then we have grown to employ over 5,500 people, including seasonal workers and contract staff.
Our business includes the processing of nuts – primarily cashews and almonds; and spices – including turmeric, chilli, coriander, cumin, black pepper, and ginger. We are also a leader in cotton, coffee, rice, cocoa products, oil and oil seeds.
Our teams work directly with thousands of farmers across India, including promoting Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in chilli, turmeric and cumin. Our coffee has achieved UTZ/Rainforest Alliance (RFA) certification. We aim to be the supplier of choice, from sourcing and processing to logistics and marketing.
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An Outstanding Cuppa From Post-harvest Training
At the Bynekere Estate in Karnataka, India, coffee farmers are reaping higher quality beans – with the corresponding income potential from it - by simply reducing post-harvest mistakes.
Meet the Team
Our 5,500 strong workforce of permanent and seasonal workers are based across the country in more than 30 locations with bases in Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai and Kollam.
Sanjay Sacheti
Country Head, India
News, Views and Insights
23rd Jun, 2021
Olam Food Ingredients announces targets to tackle poverty and scale up sustainability in global cashew supply chains
London
Today Olam Food Ingredients (“OFI”), one of the world’s largest suppliers of ingredients* from almonds to black pepper, has published sustainability targets to tackle the biggest challenges in the global cashew supply chain, starting with farmer livelihoods.
Cashew farmers are among the poorest in the world. Most are smallholders in rural areas across Africa and Asia and cannot always grow enough to feed their families, afford much-needed healthcare or send their children to school. OFI, which has directly supported over 50,000 cashew farmers over the last decade, hopes to change this and encourage others in the sector to collaborate for measurable change.
The Cashew Trail strategy sets 2030 targets across OFI’s cashew business – in line with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals1 and OFI’s commitment to deliver naturally good, sustainable ingredients. These include ambitious goals to fight poverty by increasing avera
11th Jun, 2021
UN World Day Against Child Labour 2021: Putting children first in cocoa
By Andrew Brooks, Head of Cocoa Sustainability, Olam Food Ingredients (OFI)
This week, the world’s attention turns to a heavy burden that can damage a child’s health and education: child labour. In OFI’s cocoa business, we are focused on solving this problem every day.
Most child labour in cocoa relates to children carrying out hazardous tasks on the family farm, distinct from the much rarer issue of forced labour, and has no one cause. Labour laws can be misunderstood, and schools might be located far away. Even if there is a school nearby, children may not have the documents they need to enrol. When combined with rural poverty, many parents think their child’s time is best spent helping on the farm. And now, these cocoa-growing communities are also battling a global health pandemic.
We’re working to tackle each of these challenges in turn. Under our Cocoa Compass sustainability ambition, we aim to completely eradicate child labour from our direct supply chain by 2030 and ens
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