Amit Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO, StarAgri
Agritech firm StarAgri has launched a warehousing platform called Stockyard for non-agricultural commodities for the UAE market. The company also plans to launch a marketplace for fresh produce – AgriFresh – which focuses on reducing supply chain inefficiencies in the domestic market.
The company said Stockyard is a warehouse management and collateral technology platform for non-agricultural commodities such as chemicals, steel, aluminium, hardware and similar categories.
StarAgri operates over 2,200 warehouses for agricultural commodities across 400 locations, managing a total storage capacity of 5.08 million metric tonnes with 73 per cent utilization. Its digital marketplace, AgriBazaar, facilitated trade in over twelve million metric tonnes worth more than a billion dollars. The company said in a statement that the platform provides transparent price discovery and market access to more than 300,000 farmers.
StarAgri reported consolidated revenues of ₹1,560.4 crore in FY25, a growth of 55 per cent over the previous year. Net profit increased 47 percent to ₹68.47 crore. The company said it has remained profitable since inception, while its non-performing assets remain below 1 per cent, reflecting disciplined risk taking and balance sheet strength.
Amit Agarwal, co-founder and CEO, StarAgri, said FY25 has validated the strength of their model, but the real story is what comes next. Agarwal said, “We are entering 2026 with massive confidence as our growth is based on disciplined credit, technology-led decision-making and real infrastructure at the ground level. We aim to make affordable, collateral-based finance and professional storage accessible to every farmer, while also building an agritech institution that can withstand market cycles.”
StarAgri’s non-bank finance arm has disbursed ₹9,000 crore so far, while the cumulative warehouse receipt-backed financing stands at ₹1.5 lakh crore. The company said credit decisions are supported by a proprietary model built on sixteen years of repayment data, enabling a warehouse-backed, collateral-based lending model that gives farmers and agri-enterprises access to single-digit interest rates while maintaining strong asset quality.
Platforms like AgriBhoomi and the company’s agricultural advisory services are also expanding. These offerings provide agricultural insights and input access to farmers across diverse regions. A key differentiator in this growth is StarAgri’s franchise-owned, company-operated model. The FOCO structure enables rapid infrastructure expansion while keeping capital expenditures low. This asset-light but control-driven approach positions the company as a sustainable rural infrastructure platform rather than a capital-intensive logistics business.
“Our FOCO model and technology-based platform allow us to grow responsibly while protecting returns and asset quality. As we move into FY26, our focus is on deepening technology, expanding into new verticals, boosting our efforts to empower one crore farmers by FY30, and building a business that meets institutional standards not only in growth, but also in governance and resilience.”
In FY26, StarAgri is targeting revenues of over ₹2,000 crore, high returns on equity and rapid expansion across credit, warehousing and digital market platforms. StarAgri aims to empower one crore farmers directly and indirectly by FY 2030 by expanding access to professional storage, transparent markets and affordable credit. This includes small and marginal farmers who are traditionally excluded from formal finance due to lack of collateral or market linkages. By integrating storage, credit, trading and advisory services on a single ecosystem, StarAgri aims to reduce post-harvest sales, improve price realization and enable farmers to participate more effectively in formal agri-value chains.
Published February 5, 2026
