Incorporated in 1980 as a private limited company, Nath Seeds became a public limited company in 1987. It belongs to the Nath group promoted by Nandkishor Kagliwal and his associates._x000D_ _x000D_ The company is one of the largest seed companies, whose activities include research, breeding, production, processing and marketing high-quality hybrid seeds of high-yielding crops (cotton, sunflower, maize, jowar, bajra) and vegetables (tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, etc). Its seed processing facilities are in Aurangabad, Maharashtra; in Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh; and in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu._x000D_ _x000D_ It has a collaboration with Royal Sluis, Holland, a recognised world leader in hybrid vegetable seeds, for joint research, production and marketing._x000D_ _x000D_ It increased its wheat processing capacity from 11.8 tph to 30 tph by setting up three additional plants of 10 tph each at Ranebennur, Karnataka; Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh; and expanding its plant at Aurangabad, Maharashtra. It also diversified into processing 2000 tpa of grapes for exports, by setting up a pre-cooling facility at its Aurangabad plant._x000D_ _x000D_ The company has undertaken a unique Integrated Agro Processing and Corporate Farming Project which involves cultivating Fruits & Vegetables over an area of 1152 acres. It also plans to set up a modular technology laboratory for DNA finger printing & disease control of the seeds, for which significant progress has been made._x000D_ _x000D_ During the period under review i.e. 1999-2000, the company has successfully launched three cotton hybrids namely Vishwanath, Manjunath and Nathbaba whose results has been highly encouraging._x000D_