Godrej Industries Limited is the parent company and promoter of Godrej Agrovet Ltd, had listed its subsidiary at a right opportune time. Broadly, Godrej Agrovet has been diversely spit into five business domains — animal feed, crop protection, oil palm, dairy, poultry, and processed foods making it to transform into a giant Agriculture conglomerate unit. It holds a 52% stake in Creamline Dairy Products Ltd, which, as its brand name suggests, is in involved the dairy business.

Godrej Agrovet Ltd

Godrej Agrovet is the pioneer in the domestic plant growth regulators (PGR) market and one of the leading players in the cotton herbicide segment.

Crop Protection and palm oil production that both contributed around 30 percent to the general income in 2018, alongside as of late reported government estimates, for example, Income support plan and setting-up of Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog are required to drive the development of agri-business organization Godrej Agrovet.

The organization, which got officially listed at the bourses on October 16, 2017, is a Pan India Diversified agri-business firm that offers its items and administrations across five distinctive business verticals, viz, crop security business, palm oil, animal feed, dairy, and processed foods.

The government’s sincere attempts to control and decrease the farm distress and increase farmers’ source of high income so that they should bear some fruit in the next five years. If you are seeking a valuable company to bet on the rural theme for the longer term, you can consider that of Godrej Agrovet, a differentiated player in the agri-business. The arm of the Godrej Group has a yearly turnover of over ₹5,000 crores and a stronghold in animal feed, dairy, crop security synthetic substances, and palm oil. At the present cost of ₹400, the stock is trading at a discount price to its normal profit for 2019-20 by 25 times. Given the organization’s differentiated business, sound market situating, and solid development desire, the valuations appear to be supported. Throughout the following 2-3 years, the development for the organization will be driven by new item dispatches in the crop protection section, higher volumes in palm oil, and Research & Development-drove new sustenance items in the animal feed segment. In 2018-19, the organization revealed income development of 13.1 percent to ₹5,923.9 crores.

In the course of recent years, while income has developed at a CAGR of 13.5, profit has grown 17 percent.

Godrej Agrovet Business Model

In 2018-19, Godrej Agrovet saw 52 percent of its income originate from the animal feed business and 20 percent from dairy; the rest was isolated between crop protection and vegetable oil businesses.



In animal feed, Godrej Agrovet is among the biggest organizations in the Indian local market. It has 35 manufacturing units with an all-out limit of 2.4 million tons.

India’s yearly utilization of animal feed is evaluated to be 25-27 million tons. The nation’s animal feed market is relied upon to develop in twofold digits for at any rate the following 5-7 years given expanding animal protein utilization among the populace and more ranchers moving up to better types of dairy cattle for a better return. As of now, the industry has an enormous number of sloppy players. Be that as it may, there has been a moderate move to sorted out players and marked items with expanded mindfulness, making open doors for players, for example, Godrej Agrovet.

Godrej Agrovet supplies animal feed to more than 4,000 merchants the nation over. Not simply dairy cattle feed, the organization additionally sells feed for poultry, fishes, and shrimp. Operating margins in this business are 4-6 percent. Increments in raw material expense (to a great extent of maize and soya bean) are given to buyers, however with a period slack. The organization, over the previous year, has been chipping away at new domesticated animal sustenance items that could get better costs and help margins. In 2018-19, the animal feed fragment recorded a business volume development of 14 percent with a worth increment of 18.3 percent.

Raw material cost expands prompted the margins contracting to 4.2 percent from 6 percent in the earlier year. While costs were climbed in the last quarter of 2018-19, it didn’t assist with balancing the increments in input cost completely.

In the dairy business, the organization works through its auxiliary, Creamline Dairy Products, and sells milk and milk items. In 2018-19, the organization’s income in this portion was level; cost productivity and premium-item dispatches supported the business margins in spite of low costs for margarine and SMP (skimmed milk powder) in the local market. Operating net revenue was 3.7 percent versus the 3 percent in 2017-18. The test in this business is that increments in the obtainment cost of milk can’t be effectively given to the customer, and the slack impact might be longer than anticipated now and again.

Crop Protection domain is the business that drives huge profits for the organization. Despite the fact that the section contributes just 16-17 percent of the income, the EBIT (profit before interests and taxes) commitment is 45-48 percent. The organization fabricates a wide scope of items including plant development controllers, natural fertilizers, conventional agrochemicals, and particular herbicides, and supplies on the Pan India Level.

Given the developing weight on ranch salaries, the interest for crop insurance synthetic concoctions (to build yields) is just set to rise. In 2018-19, Godrej Agrovet enlisted a 7.5 percent development in income in the yield security section. Operating net revenue was 29.1 percent against the 27.9 percent in the earlier year.



During the year, the organization propelled new items under herbicides, bug sprays, and fungicides that reinforced stable margins. For the present year, as well, new items are in the pipeline. It needs notice here that Godrej Agrovet has an auxiliary — Astec LifeSciences (gained in 2015) — that makes agrochemicals. Its items are sold in India and furthermore sent out. Astec Lifesciences likewise attempts contract improvement and assembling administrations for other agrochemical companies.

In vegetable oil, Godrej Agrovet is occupied with delivering a scope of palm plantation items including unrefined palm oil, crude palm kernel oil, and palm kernel cake. It buys new fresh fruit brunches (FFBs) from palm oil ranchers and works intimately with them by giving planting material, agrarian information sources, and specialized direction. According to a year ago’s yearly report, the organization approaches roughly 64,125 hectares under oil palm manor. Given that India as of now imports 60-70 percent of its palm oil needs and as the administration is needing to cut the import charge, there could be a pushed to help makers in the local market increment creation.

While Godrej Agrovet is as of now the biggest unrefined palm oil and rough palm portion oil maker in India with around 35 percent of the piece of the overall industry, it can possibly become further. In 2018-19, the section saw an income development of 16 percent, however, the profit development was just 1.1 percent because of a drop in working net revenue to 16.7 percent versus 19.2 percent in the earlier year. The edges contracted because of a drop in palm oil costs and more significant expenses paid for FFB.

Godrej Agrovet Future Business Outlook

In 2018-19, while all-out income were ₹5,923.9 crores, up 13.1 percent over the earlier year, at the operating level, the profit was up just 7.2 percent. This is a result of higher working expenses. Margins at the operating level were 8.6 percent, versus 9.1 percent in 2017-18.



However, Margins in the future can improve given that the organization is focussing on cost efficiencies and propelling premium items in each section. The organization’s endeavors to improve its yield in palm oil can likewise help support productivity.

Despite the fact that the portions of the organization have stayed quieted till date with the cost falling 13.14 percent during the period (as of Monday’s nearby) when contrasted with an ascent of 18.5 percent in the S&P BSE Sensex and 7.3 percent in the S&P BSE 500 record, experts trust Godrej Agrovet is on street to turning into an Agri-Giant, on account of its broad reach in the market and interest in exploration and improvement (Research & Development) of innovative products and solutions to take into account the developing business sector needs.

Godrej Agrovet is the market pioneer in the domestic plant growth regulators (PGR) fragment and one of the main players in the cotton herbicide fragment. What’s more, through its auxiliary — Astec (consolidated a year ago), the organization has a solid a dependable balance in the triazole gathering of fungicides, selling in India and 24 different nations.

There is an enormous interest in palm oil in India and to expand the inventory of organic products for palm oil fabricating, the administration has acquainted a program with advance its development, examiners state. Godrej Agrovet, which is India’s biggest palm oil processor, is all around set to gain by this chance.

As soon as Godrej Agrovet became a listed company, it has to face huge challenges of value discovery, as stock markets, in general, have given preference to individual firms rather than a company holding multiple businesses.