Our purpose

To reconnect urban families with real food.

Farmup builds one thing: the Modular Natural Farming System. One MNFS unit is 90 sq ft of living arable area that lets a home, terrace, school or community grow healthy food - reliably, beautifully and without expertise.

Everything else is a way of putting that unit to work: Vegise, the produce line of our HUNA neighbourhood farms, delivered within two kilometres. Food-ed in schools. Carbon and water credits from verified arable area. Investors funding urban farm clusters. CSR sponsorships. And families who simply buy one for themselves.

Rooftop farms across an Indian city at sunrise

Soil first

Natural farming, never synthetic shortcuts. Healthy soil is the whole product.

Designed, not improvised

Every module is engineered to look beautiful on a premium terrace.

Children at the centre

If a child can grow it, they will eat it - and remember it for life.

Radically local

Zero food miles is not a slogan. It is a distance we measure.

Our team

The people behind Farmup.

A builder, a technologist and the farmer who taught India that soil does not need chemistry sets.

Chetan Purnapatre, Founder & CEO at Farmup

Chetan Purnapatre

Founder & CEO

An innovator and entrepreneur with 25 years of business leadership, across company formation, operations, finance and management. A product builder grounded in research and analytics, and a relentless optimist who holds that there is no failure, only feedback.

Dr. Anand Vairagar, Chief Technical Advisor at Farmup

Dr. Anand Vairagar

Chief Technical Advisor

IIT Bombay, Ph.D. (IME), NTU

An entrepreneurial technologist with a doctorate in semiconductor fabrication and deep exposure across the technology domain, including hands-on years at AMD and IBM. He shapes the engineering and data backbone of the MNFS.

Padma Shri Subhash Palekar, Chief Mentor at Farmup

Padma Shri Subhash Palekar

Chief Mentor

Father of Subhash Palekar Natural Farming, formerly ZBNF

The pioneer of natural farming in India, whose method grows food without purchased fertilisers or pesticides. His principles are the agronomic foundation of every Farmup MNFS unit.