Company profile · Vital Agri Nutrients (Pvt) Ltd · since 2010

Crop nutrition engineered, manufactured, registered and tested in Pakistan.

VAN began with a research farm in 2009 and was incorporated in 2010. On 1 plant site in Lahore it makes 23 registered brands of its own, and more than 100 brands for 14 national and multinational companies. This page is the company profile, and the same profile is a PDF to download.

PDF, 25 slides, September 2026.

23
registered brands, made in Pakistan
22
PSQCA licences, against 8 Pakistan Standards
LAB 336
PNAC-accredited laboratory, ISO/IEC 17025:2017
28
crop programmes, per acre, stage by stage
100+
partner brands registered with VAN as the manufacturer
10,000+
farmers reached direct through Vital Green
The national argument

Pakistan puts more nutrient on an acre than the world average, and less of it reaches the crop.

VAN was built on this reading of the national data. The full case, with every chart and every source, is on the knowledge page.

63kg/acre

of nutrient on an acre of cropland in Pakistan in 2023. The world average is 47 kg.

+68%

nutrient on an acre, 1999-2000 to 2023-24. Wheat yield rose by 31% over the same years.

83: 1

tonnes of nitrogen for every tonne of potash that Pakistan applied in 2023.

25%

of the nitrogen put on the country’s cropland is taken up by the crop. In the United States it is about 72%.

8.22mean soil pH in Punjab
97.9%of samples below adequate in phosphorus
97.6%of samples under 1% organic matter
0samples tested for sulfur

The ground adds its own figures. The Punjab soil survey holds 770,160 samples from 36 districts, and VAN designs its grades against it.

Sources: Our World in Data / FAO (2025), published per hectare (Pakistan 156 kg, world 117 kg) and divided by 2.471 for kg an acre; World Bank AG.CON.FERT.ZS and the Pakistan Economic Survey for the change since 1999-2000; FAOSTAT (2023) for nitrogen against potash; Lassaletta et al. (2014) for nitrogen taken up; the Punjab soil testing programme, 36 district workbooks. Each is charted and cited on the knowledge page.

What VAN is

VAN runs a research farm, a plant and a laboratory on 1 site.

The farm came first, in 2009, and the company was incorporated in 2010. A trial on the farm sets a formulation, the plant makes it, the laboratory tests every batch before it ships, and each product is registered against a Pakistan Standard before it is sold.

THE RESEARCH FARMTHE PLANTTHE LABORATORY2009 · trials every season since2010 · formulated, made and packed on one site2024 · PNAC accredited, LAB 336
2007 to 2026

Pick a year to read what happened, and to see which part of the site it belongs to.

Most of what VAN makes carries a partner’s brand

VAN is mainly a business-to-business manufacturer. It makes and registers products for 14 national and multinational companies, and does not publish their names.

Vital Green carries the rest to the farm

Vital Green, founded in 2018, takes VAN’s range direct to more than 10,000 farmers.

About VAN and its board →
What VAN makes

23 registered brands in 7 families, made in any form a partner needs.

Every brand carries its licence number and its Pakistan Standard on its own page. All 23 are open to own-brand manufacturing, Vital Urea included.

Nitrogen

1

Phosphorus

4

Potash

5

NPK Blends

2

Micronutrients

4

Secondary Nutrients

3

Soil Health & Biologicals

4
Open to your brand

Any of the 23 can be made under your name, or developed further to your brief.

Make with us →

8 production lines

On the same site as the analytical laboratory.

Compound granulationBulk blendingSulfur coatingLiquidsOrganics and humatesBiological laboratoryMicronutrient coatingFilling and storage

7 physical forms

Granular, powder, crystalline soluble, liquid, pellet, water-dispersible granule and coated prill. One composition can be made in more than 1 of them.

Packs from 1 L to 1,000 kg

From a 1 L bottle to a 1,000 kg bulk bag and a 1,000 L IBC. Estate and contract-farming packs run on the same line as the retail pack.

Order size. A batch starts at 1 tonne. There is no minimum on the order itself.

Quality and registration

Every batch is tested before it ships, and every licence number is published.

LAB 336
PNAC accredited, ISO/IEC 17025:2017, since 2024
8 of 21
laboratory tests accredited, and all of them priced publicly
22
PSQCA licences, against 8 Pakistan Standards
144684
Pakistan Patent, for VAN’s sulfur coated urea

2 analysts on every sample

Written methods, calibrated instruments and reference standards, so a result does not depend on who ran the test. Results take 3 to 5 working days from booking.

The certificate for your bag

Send the batch number printed on a VAN bag and VAN sends the certificate of analysis for that batch, with no charge.

ISO 9001 in progress

Certification with System Certification Centre (SCC) is expected during 2027. VAN does not claim it until the certificate is issued.

The evidence approach

The rules VAN follows before it prints a figure.

17 years of trials on VAN's own research farm, a Punjab soil survey of 770,160 samples, and an accredited laboratory sit behind what VAN says.

Every figure names its source

Where VAN has done its own arithmetic on published data, the figure is marked as derived.

A yield figure needs a named trial

VAN prints no performance figure for a product unless a named trial supports it. Where a figure does not exist, the page says so.

Client names stay private

VAN names 1 client on this website, on the Vital Urea page and the application systems page, with that client’s agreement. It names no other.

The province collected the soil survey

The data is the Punjab soil testing programme’s. VAN reads it alongside its own sampling and does not claim it as its own.

The knowledge hub →
Who VAN works for

VAN works for growers, dealers and brand owners, and publishes its evidence.

If you grow

28 crop programmes, free, for your crop, district and sowing date.

If you sell

23 brands, every batch tested before it ships, and a bag a farmer can check by its number.

If you want it made under your name

Formulated, made, registered and tested here, and sold under your brand.

If you want the evidence

770,160 soil samples and 17 seasons on 1 research farm, each figure with its source.

Work with VAN

VAN is open to a supply agreement, toll manufacture, licence or joint venture.

For a company that wants a product under its own name, there are 2 routes. Which one fits depends on whether the product already exists at VAN.

Route 1 · Developed to your brief
7 to 12 months

You bring the market, the crop, the price point and the constraint. VAN brings the chemistry, the plant, the trial and the registration.

Your brief · Feasibility · Formulation · Field trial · Registration · Test market · Launch

Route 2 · Ready to carry your name
About 3 months

Formulations that are finished but carry no brand. They sit in the library under neutral codes, waiting for a name.

Pick a code · Deck and data · Terms · Your brand · Registration · Team trained · Launch

100+
partner brands registered with VAN named as the manufacturer
14
companies hold them, the oldest partnership since 2010
25
unbranded formulations in the library, 11 ready to license

What VAN does not do. VAN does not sell the product for you, does not hand over the formulation, and will not put a claim on your label that a trial does not support.

Research and development

What VAN is developing.

  • New coated and phosphate-efficiency products

    In development.

  • Biologicals for nitrogen and phosphorus

    On strains isolated locally, for Pakistani soil and climate.

    PSB bio-fertilizer · field trialsLiquid PSB inoculant · in developmentMycorrhizal inoculant · in developmentSeed treatment · field trials
  • Potash and silicon from crop-residue ash

    Potassium recovered from bio-fuel plant fly ash is already used in VAN’s own manufacturing, in place of imported potash. The silicon route is in its final R&D stage.

    The circular economy →
  • Patent, biological laboratory, NP line

    A new NP granulation line is planned for the plant site. Work has not started, and no date has been set.

The formulation library

25 formulations with no brand on them, each at its stage:

  • 11Available · ready to license
  • 8Validated · specification and data locked
  • 3Field trials · research farm and partner plots
  • 3In development · bench formulation work
Contact

Talk to VAN.

Write to info@van.com.pk, call +92 42 35762215, or ask for any of these 4 people by name.

Commercial

Muhammad Ali

Chief Commercial Officer
Research & development

Fahim Asghar

Lead, Plant and Product
Regulatory

Bilal Ahmed Khan

Chief Regulatory Officer
Sindh

Muhammad Irfan

Regional Business Head, Sindh

Vital Agri Nutrients (Pvt) Ltd

Head office · 605 Al-Hafeez Heights, Gulberg III, Lahore 54660
Plant · 49-Km Multan Road, Phool Nagar Bypass, Lahore

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