COMPANY PROFILE
“Tierra” has made a humble beginning on 2nd January, 2012 as a technology centric agriculture company. The objective is set to develop superior quality hybrid seeds stacked with crop specific important traits that provides significant yield benefit and overall cost advantages to farmers and other stake holders. Tierra is headquartered in Hyderabad, the seed capital of India, founded by professionals with more than eight decades of combined seed and agribusiness industry experience and proven excellence in developing breakthrough products.
Tierra is engaged in research, development, production, processing and commercialization of superior products in major crops like Cotton, Rice, Corn, Mustard, Tomato and Okra. During 2017-18, Tierra has attracted global attention after their acquisition of Monsanto’s India cotton seed business and DuPont – Pioneers Cotton company ‘Xylem’ thereby became one of the top cotton germplasm enriched company in the country.
Tierra has established a state-of-the-art R&D unit in Hyderabad with 10,000 sq. ft. laboratory space with several green houses, more than 50 acres of breeding farms supported with drip irrigation and other essential facilities. Besides its Breeding and Biotechnology R&D centers in Hyderabad, Tierra has also established three more R&D units, one in Bangalore and the other two in Pune and Gurgaon. It has also about 30 product trialing centers across the country.
Our focus is to introduce value added – differentiated products and technologies in the market, while protecting them under suitable Intellectual Property (IP) and Plant Variety Protection (PVP) laws. Our business model follows strict compliance with all regulatory guidelines including Freedom to Operate (FTOs).
