Mission
Make Indian agro supply predictable
To remove the guesswork from buying Indian agro commodities — through written specifications, verified lots and documentation that arrives before the vessel does.
About us
Quality is a process,not a promise.
Sterling Trade India is a trading and export house for Indian agro and food products. Our work sits in the space between a farm cluster in Gujarat, Bihar or Andhra Pradesh and a buyer who needs the same result in every container.
Our approach
We would rather lose an order than send a doubtful lot.
Agro commodities are seasonal, variable and easy to get wrong. A good crop year and a bad one can look identical in a photograph. That is why every enquiry we take begins with a written specification and every dispatch ends with the paperwork that proves it was met.
Our range covers dehydrated onion and garlic, green and red chilli, cumin and the wider Indian spice basket, makhana, peanuts, jaggery and moringa. Some buyers take one line in mixed pallets; others consolidate several categories into a single container. Both are welcome.
Behind the brand is a simple commitment carried in our mark — exporting quality, delivering trust.
At origin
We start where the crop starts.
Before a price exists there is a field, a harvest window and a processor. We spend our season there so your season is uneventful.
Vision
A name buyers repeat
To be the first Indian supplier an importer thinks of across dehydrated vegetables, spices and speciality foods — and the one they stop shopping around after finding.
Our story
Built one specification at a time.
The beginning
A single commodity, done properly
Sterling Trade started by consolidating dehydrated onion for domestic seasoning houses — one product, one specification, repeated until it was boringly reliable.
Widening
From one crop to a basket
Buyers who trusted the onion asked for garlic, then chilli, then cumin. Each addition arrived only after we had found a processor we would visit unannounced.
Going out
First export containers
IEC, APEDA and Spices Board registrations in place, the first containers sailed to the Gulf. Documentation discipline became as important as product discipline.
Today
Ten categories, one standard
Dehydrated vegetables, chillies, whole and ground spices, makhana, peanut, jaggery and moringa — supplied to domestic manufacturers and overseas importers alike.
What we hold to
Four values, no slogans
01
Transparency
You see the same photographs, lab reports and loading pictures that we see. No selective reporting.
02
Verification
Nothing ships on trust alone. Moisture meters, sortex passes and third-party labs decide.
03
Long relationships
We price for the fifth order, not the first. That is why our buyers rarely need a second supplier.
04
Fair sourcing
Payments to farm-level suppliers move on time, which is how we keep first pick of each season's lots.
How an order moves
Four steps, no surprises
01
Source
Direct relationships with processors and mandis in the belts that grow each crop best.
02
Grade
Cleaning, sortex, sieving and lab checks against the agreed moisture, purity and colour values.
03
Pack
Bulk bags, cartons, vacuum or private-label retail packs, marked to your artwork.
04
Ship
Fumigation, phytosanitary and export documentation, stuffing and dispatch from Indian ports.
People before product
Behind every container is a grower we pay on time.
Reliable supply is not a logistics trick. It is what happens when the people at the start of the chain want to work with you again.
Sourcing belts
Each crop from the district that does it best.
India grows the same crop in a dozen states, and the difference between them is the difference between a happy buyer and a claim. We buy narrowly and deliberately.
Gujarat
Dehydrated onion & garlic, cumin, groundnut
Andhra Pradesh & Telangana
Teja and Sannam red chilli
Karnataka
Byadgi chilli, turmeric
Bihar (Mithilanchal)
Makhana / fox nut
Rajasthan
Coriander, fenugreek, mustard
Uttar Pradesh & Maharashtra
Jaggery, moringa
Certifications
Every claim has a certificate behind it
Registrations, licences and quality programmes we work under. Hover any card to read what it covers.
FSSAI Licence
FSSAI
FSSAI
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India licence covering handling, processing and trade of food products for domestic sale and export.
APEDA Registration
APEDA
APEDA
Registered with the Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority — the statutory body governing Indian agro exports.
Import Export Code
IEC
IEC
DGFT-issued Import Export Code, the mandatory identifier for every cross-border shipment we clear from Indian ports.
Spices Board India
SPICES
SPICES
Certificate of registration as an exporter of spices, covering chilli, cumin, turmeric, coriander and the wider Indian spice basket.
ISO 22000 : FSMS
ISO
ISO
Food Safety Management System discipline applied across sourcing, processing and packing partners — hazard analysis at every control point.
HACCP
HACCP
HACCP
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points programme governing moisture, foreign matter, microbiology and metal detection on each lot.
Phytosanitary Certificate
PHYTO
PHYTO
Issued per consignment by the Plant Quarantine authority, certifying the lot is free from pests and meets the destination country's plant-health rules.
Halal Certification
HALAL
HALAL
Halal-compliant processing and packing for buyers in the Gulf, South-East Asia and other Halal-governed markets.
Organic (NPOP / NOP)
ORGANIC
ORGANIC
Certified organic lots available for jaggery, moringa and selected spices under India's NPOP and the USDA NOP equivalence programme.
Good Manufacturing Practice
GMP
GMP
Facility hygiene, personnel discipline and documented traceability from raw intake to sealed export carton.
The difference
Six things buyers notice in the first order.
01
Written specification before pricing, every time
02
Photographs and lab reports on each lot
03
Private labelling and buyer artwork
04
Consolidated mixed-category containers
05
Samples couriered within days
06
Documents sent ahead of vessel arrival
A small team that answers its own phone.
You will deal with the same people from first enquiry to final document — no account handoffs, no ticket numbers. Ask a technical question and you get a technical answer, usually the same working day.
