India’s diverse climate ensures it can produce a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. India ranks second in fruit and vegetable production in the world, after China. As per the National Horticulture Database 2020-21, India produced 102.48 million metric tonnes of fruits and 200.45 million metric tonnes of vegetables. The area under fruit cultivation stood at 9.6 million hectares while vegetables were cultivated in 10.86 million hectares of land. 

Aibono is a farm-to-retail platform dealing in high-value and perishable hill vegetables. It provides high quality seeds and other planting material in advance to farmers, based on projected retail demand. AiBono procures the produce at the time of harvest, right from farm gate and sells to neighborhood retail stores in the city of Bengaluru.