India's Vetriver, Grown with Purpose. Distilled for the World.

Founded in 2012 in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, KH International began with a simple conviction: that vetriver — a hardy, unglamorous grass most farmers overlooked — could become the foundation of a fairer, more resilient rural economy. Vetriver asks for almost nothing: little water, no chemical dependency, and a root system that holds soil together where erosion would otherwise win. What it gives back, when a farming community is organized around it properly, is a great deal.

What started as a partnership with a handful of local farming families has grown, over more than a decade, into a structured livelihood network. Today, more than 500 women are directly engaged in vetriver farming across our partner network, cultivating over 100 acres of farmland using regenerative, low-water practices. Alongside that farming partnership, we built a second, parallel program around traditional vetriver root craft — more than 400 women artisans handweaving mats, screens, and fragrance products from surplus root, keeping a centuries-old craft tradition alive while creating income that doesn't depend on any single harvest.

From that foundation, KH International now distills export-grade vetriver oil for global perfumery, cosmetics, and wellness markets — currently supplying Canada, and building toward France and the wider European market. Every litre we export carries the same story: a rural economy built on women's livelihoods and regenerative farming, not extracted from it.