Kerala Agro Business Company (KABCO)

Kerala has always been famous for its agricultural produce. As a global hub of the spice trade, it has seen traders from around the world flocking to its shores. Even today, despite its relatively small geographical area, Kerala ‘s fertile soil nurtures a wide variety of crops that are much in demand within and outside India. While Kerala has been blessed with this natural bounty, it needed a well organized marketing system to create a sustainable and profit-making agricultural ecosystem. This was especially so since a large part of the agricultural sector consists of small and marginal farmers, who have a limited market reach. Recognizing this, the Government of Kerala set up the Kerala Agro Business Company (KABCO) Limited. KABCO is a company set up in a Public-Private Partnership model in pursuance to the budget speech in the Kerala State Assembly in 2016-2017.