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residue-free. people who have already spoiled a
market portion by unprofessional
Feeding India in the 21st Century services and over costing, it become
How is urban growing at very difficult for us to create a right
commercial scale possible? Barton space in market.
Breeze produces: We ensured international standard
a. By mid-2020, Barton Breeze quality, end to end support and
service which is SLA driven. As
will open its new 70,000 sq. ft.
indoor farm, which will be home a result of which right now we
to the world’s largest vertical farm have 100% consumer satisfaction
– capable of producing two million which made us market leader in the
pounds of leafy greens per year. The Industry.
growth of Barton Breeze will create However, of all the challenges, the
more than 40 new jobs in the next most critical & important was to
few months on top of an existing bring together those who have same
team of 30. vision; it took time to align them all
b. 30 times the productivity per and make a strong team, after which
everything seems possible. It took
square foot annually of traditional
farming no time for Barton to transform
from one person’s company to 30
c. Up to 25 crop turns per year with: member team then.
• 80% less water than traditional Dr. Ratnakar took hold of Plant
farming science, Sudhanva ensured
marketing and operations, Dheeraj
• Zero pesticides specialized our technology side,
Rahul worked on products, support
• Complete traceability from seed to team took their individual charges
package & the journey started to take off.
Barton Breeze’s Mission 1) Year of Founding: 2015
Our mission is to build 2) Funding Information: Currently
“
responsible farms, to enable Bootstrapped, looking to raise $5
local production at scale Million
and grow safe, delicious and 3) Founding Members: Dr.
healthy food. “ Ratnakar Rai, Co-founder; Mr.
Sudhanva Sundararaman, Co-
The Eventful Journey founder
The journey was tough initially 4) Office Locations: India, Dubai,
which was very well expected but I Qatar
always got energy from the vision 5) Company Strength: 30
I carry, which is to create healthy
world at affordable cost for the 6) Website: www.bartonbreeze.
generations ahead.Apart from lack com
of right information, availability
of fund, uncertainty of market,
the challenging task was to build
trust among consumers. Since the
technique was new and there were
