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About the firm
A spice trader in a spice town.
Shubham Agro has imported and exported spices and agro products from the APMC market yard in Unjha, Gujarat since 2001. Almost everything we ship is bought within a few hundred metres of where it is traded — which is why our prices are close to the real market and our lead times are short.
Everything we buy, clean, mill and ship. Tap any one to read how we handle it.
The short version
Unjha handles a large share of India’s cumin and psyllium. If you buy either one, the price is set here — whether you buy from us or from somebody three countries away.
Being in the town is not special by itself — plenty of firms sit on the same street. What it gives us is speed. We can look at a lot in the morning, send a sample to the laboratory by noon, and tell you the same evening whether the specification you want is realistic at this point in the season.
What usually goes wrong in this trade is not the price. It is a shipment that does not match the sample, a document that arrives a week late, or a supplier who stops replying when the market moves against him. Those three things are what we built the firm to avoid.
That is also why this website is careful with numbers. Where a figure still needs proof, you will see a bracket instead of a claim. Ask us and we will send you the document.
How we work
Four rules we
do not bend.
Buy on the sample
Every lot is judged against the sample you approved — not against last month’s lot, and not against what the seller says about it.
Clean to the number
Cleaning runs until the purity in your contract is reached. “Close enough” is a reason to reject a lot, not a reason to ship it.
Write it down
Specification, tolerance, marking and shipment window all go into the contract. Anything agreed on a call is confirmed by email the same day.
Call you with bad news
A delay, a rolled vessel, a lot that failed retest — you hear it from us straight away. Going quiet is what ruins a supplier relationship, and it is easy to avoid.
The people
You will deal
with Yug,
every time.
Shubham Agro is run by its founder, Yug Patel. The person who walks the yard and picks your lot is the same person who answers your email — no sales desk in between, no account manager who has never seen the goods. It also means we take on only as many contracts as we can run properly, and we will say so when we are full.
| Role | Name | Handles |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | Yug Patel | Buying at the yard, pricing, contracts |
| Export and documents | Yug Patel | Shipping, paperwork, buyer updates |
| Quality | Yug Patel | Sampling, cleaning supervision, lab liaison |
These are our products, not our premises. We have not put a stock photo of somebody else’s office or staff on a page that says “this is us” — real ones go here as soon as they are taken.
What we do not claim
Read this
bit.
Most Indian export websites carry the same set of numbers: countries served, tonnes shipped, awards nobody can find a record of. We have left ours out until we can prove them. You can judge us on the sample instead, which is the only number that matters to your production line.
- No country count until the shipping bills back it up.
- No capacity figure until the unit is measured.
- No certification logo stays on this site without a current certificate behind it. The numbers are on the certifications page.
- No client names without written permission.
Anywhere you see a bracket on this site, a real value is pending. Ask for it and we will send the document rather than a screenshot.
What we can evidence today ↗Start with a sample.
Tell us the product and the specification you work to. Samples go out by courier, and we quote against the same lot you are holding.