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.
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.
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.
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.
Good Agricultural Practice certified packhouses.
Registered Indian agri-export house.
Lab-verified before every dispatch.
Unbroken 4°C custody, grove to port.