Uday Doiphode - Director of IRASHA PRIVATE LIMITED

Uday Doiphode 

Multi-faceted competent professional having over 22 years of experience in handling International Trade, Channel Management & Retail sales. A keen planner and implementer with deftness in effectuating strategies, driving teams to ensure successful management. An impressive communicator with honed interpersonal, team building, negotiation, presentation, convincing and analytical skills. Experience of working under cross-cultural and multi-lingual environments.

IRASHA PRIVATE LIMITED

A. Agri Business: IRASHA AGRO: (www.irashaagro.com)

A leading exporter of Agricultural Products and Commodities is ISO 9001:2015 certified & sources all the products directly from farmers, which are cultivated under the observation of agriculturalist and experienced farmers who are part of our Agro Producing company "Rangasharda Agro Producing Co Ltd”.

IRASHA Agro is known for delivering quality products to customers worldwide and our products match Agro products standard. Our products go through various quality checking process and only the bests are taken as the final products.

IRASHA deals in Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, Spices (Raw & Blended) & Grains.

B. IRASHA INTERNATIONAL: (www.irashainternational.com):

IRASHA is a Pune based ISO 9001-2015 certified Exporter and Consultancy firm for Business Development in Africa. IRASHA bridges the gap between cost-effective small-scale sector and highly technical but equally expensive organized sector. Quality and customer focus is of utmost importance in IRASHA. We give satisfaction to our clients through excellence & Creative trading solutions that meets the customer expectations by considering the customers’ business needs. Continuous research for value addition & improving quality of our services. Out of the box thinking for special needs of the customers to find unique and tailored made business solutions. We have reliable supplier base to provide best of our services. Accepting no limits to create One Stop Solution for all kinds of International Trade.

Motive to start the business

a. Payback to Society

b. Upliftment of Farmers

c. Bridging the gap between cost-effective small-scale sectors & highly technical but equally expensive organised sector.

d. To overcome the losses (Farmers' & Consumers') due to long & inefficient Supply Chain

Can you name a few peoples who support you always in your business?

A. My family members - Mother (Rohini), Sister (Jyoti), Wife (Sanika) & My kids (Isha & Ira) have always been supporting and motivating me.

B. Few of my childhood friends

C. Our company's finance director Mr Gurunath Joshi

Balancing Family and Business

As mentioned above, my family is very supportive all the time, throughout my journey of Entrepreneurship. Also I have written a Book (yet to be Published) on Work Life Balance, so it was a manageable affair to maintain Business & Family together.

Growth of company in last 3 years

In terms of financials Turnover grew 4 times in 3 years.

How you are planning to expand business in this Digital Era?

Currently we have a mobile App and other online sales systems but for long run we are planning to establish end to end IT platform which shall cover from farms to retail including traceability. A complete 360-degree IT solution.