Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Limited
Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (DFPCL) is among India’s leading producers of fertilizers and industrial chemicals. Set up in 1979 as an Ammonia manufacturer, DFPCL today is a publicly listed, multi-product Indian conglomerate with an annual turnover of over a billion USD with a product portfolio spanning industrial chemicals, bulk and specialty fertilisers, farming diagnostics and solutions, technical ammonium nitrate and value added real estate, which includes India’s 1st & largest revolutionary concept retail destination for Home Interiors & Design.
The Company has manufacturing facilities in Taloja – Maharashtra, Srikakulam – A.P., Panipat – Haryana and Dahej – Gujarat. The Company has adopted some of the global state-of-the-art technologies that enable it to manufacture and supply high quality products that meet global standards.
DFPCL today is a name that spells quality and trust. It has established a prime position for itself over the last three and a half decades across Indian and global markets. Focused on growth, drawing synergies from its existing products and leveraging current strengths, DFPCL is augmenting it’s manufacturing capabilities to expand its product portfolio. DFPCL is directed towards shaping a successful growth trajectory in the dynamically changing world of business. It is building resilience to spearhead change through the swiftly transforming world economy.
The focus is to create value. Whether integrating backward into raw materials or integrating forward to bring sectoral depth to its strategies, the Company is committed to propelling itself into a new and exciting orbit.
Your IFA Innovation Platform Profile
What collaboration are we looking for?
• In-farm/ machinery linkages: Businesses facilitating or providing rental/ sale of farm equipment, including smart irrigation systems, precision farming equipment, drones, robotics, and novel farming machinery solutions
• Traceable sustainable agriculture: Businesses providing transparency and traceability solutions for sustainable practices (typically through Blockchain), quality assessment of farm produce, and agri-carbon solutions, or supporting with adopting these solutions
• Output linkages for F&V: Businesses engaged in facilitating output linkages for F&V by providing cold chain storage, distribution, processing, and exports/ sales of produce
• Financing and Risk management: Businesses engaged in providing or facilitating financing and risk management services, including farmer financing, crop insurance, personal insurance, and risk management advisory services
• Farming as a Service (FaaS): Businesses engaged in facilitating or providing rental/ sale of farm equipment, along with subscription or direct purchase of services, such as precision farming services, robotics/ drone-based spraying services, and customized advisory
• Input and financing platforms: Businesses engaged in selling or facilitating the sale of agricultural inputs (i.e., seeds, fertilizers, pesticides) through an input linkages platform and enabling or providing farmer-financing
• Horticulture Package of Practices (PoP) and advisory: Businesses engaged in facilitating or providing agri-inputs for horticulture which enhance the quality characteristics of produce (e.g., produce size or colour, fructose content in fruits, sucrose content in sugarcane) and end-to-end advisory with a focus on building farmer compliance to the advised Package-of-Practices (PoP)
• R&D/ biotech for new molecules/ products: Businesses engaged in providing R&D for the manufacture of new specialty molecules/ products (e.g., chemical-free insect or pest repellents, climate resilient inputs, and inputs that enhance nutrient absorption, soil health or fertility)
• Alternative technology for raw material production: Businesses engaged in providing alternative technology for the manufacture of raw materials for fertilizers or engaged in selling raw materials.
What solutions and opportunities are we offering?
With a network of 25,000+ retail counters spread across 12 states of India and serving 1.3 Mn farmers in these geographies across 12 focus crops (cotton, soybean, maize, groundnut, sugarcane, paddy, tomato, onion, potato, banana, grapes, pomegranate), DFPCL can provide this access and the wisdom of operating in the market for four decades.
Additional geographies of business operation
Oceania
Additional geographies of business operation (per country)
Australia for mining business
Additional Information
Details of our Corporate Venture Arm
Mahadhan Agritech Limited (MAL- a 100% subsidiary of Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Limited) serves as the anchor investor in the State Of Agriculture (SOA) Fund, a new Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) focused on backing high-potential i
Investment: What funding, grant, or proposal opportunities are we offering?
The SOA Fund is structured as a Category II AIF with a target corpus of INR 75 crore (~USD 8.5 million) and a green-shoe option of an additional INR 75 crore, and with Mahadhan Agritech Limited (MAL) as the anchor investor. The Fund will primarily invest
Innovation Priorities: What are our current areas of interest for innovation solutions?
Our investment focus is on business models that can meaningfully improve farmer productivity, climate resilience, soil health, agriculture supply-chain efficiency, and access to high-quality inputs and advisory. This spans areas such as crop-specific inpu
ESG targets: What are our companies sustainability, social, and responsible governance targets?.
Refer pages 20-29 of the report.https://www.dfpcl.com/uploads/2025/08/DFPCL-AR-2024-25.pdf
Development: What accelerator, incubator or other program opportunities are available with our business?
SOA can leverage the connect with the anchor investor Mahadhan Agritech Limited (MAL- a 100% subsidiary of Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Limited) to create value for the startup across the investment life cycle, through the following act
