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Green farmland stretching toward the hills
Our Story · Since 2009

We grow for the few, not the many.

Hemant Fresh began with a single Konkan grove and a stubborn belief — that Indian fruit, grown patiently, belongs on the world's finest tables.

The Beginning
2009

The year the first Hemant Fresh crate left Ratnagiri.

A grove, a family, and a promise kept for sixteen seasons.

Hemant Fresh was founded by the Deshmukh family on twelve acres of Alphonso mango trees their grandfather had planted. The first export was forty-eight boxes, carried by hand to a buyer in Dubai who had tasted nothing like them.

Today we partner with fifteen orchards across Maharashtra, yet nothing about our method has scaled away from that first season. We still pick by hand. We still ripen on the tree. We still know every grower by name. The only thing that has grown is the number of tables that wait for our fruit.

Orchard rows under a soft sky
Our Philosophy

The orchard sets the pace. We simply listen.

Industrial fruit is engineered to a schedule. Ours is not. A tree tells us when its fruit is ready — by the give of the skin, the depth of the blush, the sweetness of the air around it.

We accept smaller yields as the cost of real flavour. Patience is not a marketing word at Hemant Fresh; it is the entire operating model.

The Sourcing Process

Five quiet steps between blossom and box.

01

Grove Selection

We choose orchards by soil, altitude and the grower's craft.

02

Season Watch

Agronomists track each tree from flowering to first colour.

03

Hand Harvest

Fruit is cut at dawn, cradled — never dropped — into padded crates.

04

Grading

Nine checks for size, blush, aroma and blemish in the packhouse.

05

Cold Dispatch

Sealed at 4°C and routed to port within the same day.

Sustainability

We farm as though the next harvest depends on it.

Because it does. Healthy soil, clean water and pollinator habitat are not add-ons — they are the assets that let an orchard yield for fifty years.

Drip-fed irrigation across every partner grove, cutting water use by nearly half.

Compost-led soil care with zero synthetic ripening agents, ever.

Solar-powered packhouses and recyclable, plastic-light export crates.

Healthy orchard rows
Farmer Culture

Behind every crate is a grower we trust

Farmers in a sunlit orchard
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A fair price and a long contract — that is how you grow fruit worth exporting. Hemant Fresh gave us both.
Vitthal Pawar
Partner grower · Devgad, 11 seasons

We pay above the regional rate, contract years in advance, and reinvest in grafting, training and the next generation of orchard masters.

Premium Export Standards

Certified, audited, and proud of it.

Luxury without proof is just packaging. Every Hemant Fresh consignment is accompanied by full documentation and meets the import requirements of the markets we serve.

GlobalG.A.P.

Good Agricultural Practice certified packhouses.

APEDA

Registered Indian agri-export house.

Residue Tested

Lab-verified before every dispatch.

Cold-Chain

Unbroken 4°C custody, grove to port.

See what sixteen seasons of patience taste like.