EWINDO (East-West Seed Indonesia)

EWINDO primarily develops local, cutting-edge seed industry to produce high quality vegetable seeds. Its unique approach to business includes:
- Local breeding which caters to local demand and conditions, resulting in over 200
varieties of 37 vegetable crops
- Local extension workers who train farmers in improved growing techniques.
- Availability of small seed packages or pouches which are suited to small farmers with
less than 2 hectares of land, representing 85% of the world‘s farm holdings.
For more than two decades, EWINDO provides healthy seeds with high genetic purity and good germination in order to achieve good results aligning with the customers‘ needs and the key to success for Indonesian farmers. In developing seeds, EWINDO employs professionals who are experienced in the area of plant breeding, seed science, and agronomy. Vegetable seeds resulting from research and development are produced, processed, packed and marketed for Indonesian farmers. Currently, EWINDO produces already more than 150 varieties of 24 vegetable crops, and enjoys the position as market leader in vegetable seeds industry in Indonesia.
EWINDO and its foundation arms brings into the partnership their expertise in conducting GAP trainings, setting up of demo-plot sites, and ensuring smart seed choices. The competence of EWINDO and its foundation arm in extension services will be deployed towards farmers ̳ learning objective: better understanding on crop nutrition, IPM (integrated pest management), smart seed selection and good nursery handling. These are combined with demo-plots setting to promote learning and change/adoption. These initiatives coupled with technical interventions facilitate farming practice improvement and production at farmers‘ group level.