Sustainability

Grown Responsibly. Extracted with Purpose.

From rice grown on our own fields to our controlled cultivation facility, sustainability at Ujala Life Sciences is built into how every ingredient is made.

Own-Farm Rice Substrate
Solar-Powered Facility
Controlled Cultivation
Every Lot Traceable
Community Advancement

01 · From our fields to our grow rooms

Own-farm rice substrate

Functional mushrooms need a grain substrate to grow on. We don't buy ours on the open market. The rice that feeds our cultures comes from our own fields, so traceability starts before the first culture is inoculated.

Known origin: every batch of substrate comes from fields we farm ourselves.
Shorter supply chain: no third-party grain sourcing between our fields and our grow rooms.
Consistent inputs: a consistent substrate is the starting point for consistent bioactives.

How our practices contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health & well-being

Third-party tested mushroom ingredients for health and wellness brands; our parent group runs free health camps across North India.

Quality education

The Amar Ujala Foundation runs merit scholarships for students from low-income and differently-abled backgrounds.

Gender equality

Aparajita empowers women and adolescent girls through self-defence training, vocational training and legal awareness.

UN SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Industry, innovation & infrastructure

Culture, cultivation, extraction and testing infrastructure built in-house, under one roof, in India.

UN SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Responsible consumption & production

We grow and process everything in one place, which means less waste and full traceability back to the source.

Climate action

Lower grid dependence and cleaner power behind a facility that runs every day of the year.

Community advancement

Amar Ujala Foundation: translating intentions into action

Established in 2012 as the CSR arm of Amar Ujala Limited, the Amar Ujala Foundation works to create a more equitable society by empowering marginalised communities through sustainable and impactful interventions.

Its outreach spans 7 states and 179 districts in North India, across health, education, women empowerment, awareness and rural development. In FY 2024-25 the Foundation carried out approximately 5,364 activities across 22 units.

1,47,662beneficiaries of 2,014 free health check-up camps

23,688units of blood donated across 459 camps

60,000+women & girls reached through Aparajita

1,43,777students engaged through Police Awareness

Source: Amar Ujala Foundation Annual Report 2024-25

Where the work happens

Six programmes across health, education and awareness

Health

Free health check-up camps

Held since 2013 in remote villages of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana with senior doctors from government and private hospitals, offering general, eye and dental check-ups and free medicines.

2,014: camps
1,47,662: beneficiaries

Health

Blood Donation (Raktdaan-Mahadaan)

Blood donation camps that support government blood banks and district hospitals serving patients from below the poverty line, with special drives on World Blood Donor Day and Kargil Vijay Diwas.

459: camps
23,688: units donated

Woman Empowerment

Aparajita: 100 Million Smiles

Launched in 2018, Aparajita empowers women and adolescent girls through self-defence training, vocational training, legal awareness workshops and career counselling.

621: activities
60,000+: women & girls

Education

Atul Maheshwari Scholarship (for meritorious students from low-income backgrounds)

For meritorious students in classes 9 to 12 from economically weaker families. Over one lakh students applied this year across 22 units.

46: scholars
₹28.8 L: awarded

Education

Dorilal Agarwal Scholarship (for differently-abled meritorious students)

A national meritorious scholarship for differently-abled students, run with Viklang Sahayata Sanstha, Agra, supporting courses from BA to MBBS and Ph.D.

93: students, 12 states
₹17.16 L: awarded

Awareness

Police Awareness

Senior police officials meet students in schools and colleges to discuss legal rights, cyber security, road safety, women's safety and self-defence.

695: sessions
1,43,777: students

Sustainable development

Baandal Valley Development Project

In collaboration with HESCO, the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization, the Foundation has adopted eight villages in the Baandal Valley near Dehradun, focusing on holistic development through science and technology.

Capacity building: training self-help groups on savings, loans and vocational skills.
Alternative energy: bio-geysers to support sustainable energy use.
Agriculture: protective cultivation to improve vegetable production and profitability.
Economic empowerment: women's self-help groups in each village now have their own bank savings account.

8villages adopted

Protective cultivation in the Baandal Valley and controlled cultivation at Ujala Life Sciences rest on the same idea: grow more, on less land, with fewer inputs, and keep the value close to the people who produce it.

Responsible by design

The same systems that govern product quality stand behind every sustainability claim we make

Third-party tested

All powders and extracts are third-party tested and validated.

Verified bioactives

Test methods are shared for each bioactive.

Traceability

Every lot is traceable to its grow cycle, and the substrate to our own fields.

Organic production

Compliance to organic cultivation across our controlled cultivation in India.

About Amar Ujala Limited

Amar Ujala is India's leading Hindi newspaper, with 22 editions across Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi NCR and Chandigarh. Ujala Life Sciences is a unit of Amar Ujala Limited.

3rdlargest Hindi daily newspaper of India

4.76 Crorereaders

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