about US
RUPEX GROWTECH Ltd was registered in New Zealand in 1998, as a locally owned and operated company. Based on a 25 Acres piece of prime agricultural land, at the fringes of main vegetable producing area of Franklin district, our company has emerged as a leading supplier of vegetable planting materials to commercial growers in the Auckland region and afar.
training in horti-production
We offer full time one-year and two-year teaching/training programmes in production horticulture and Nursery production leading to New Zealand Certificate in Horticulture Production Level 4 and New Zealand Diploma in Horticulture Production L 5, under our sister company ‘Franklin Institute of Agri-technology’. Both domestic and international students are eligible to apply. Add for more information, visit: www.fiat.ac.nz
RAJ SAINI Founder & CEO
Rajinder Saini has higher degrees in Agriculture sciences (M.Sc. Plant Sciences, Ph.D. Crop Sciences) and more than forty-five years’ experience which includes basic and applied research, crop & nursery management, technology transfer, agri-business management, export development and organising training in horticulture. He participates in the technology transfer through bringing out suitable publications and has 47 articles in national and international periodicals covering different crops and Agri-ecological zones. For more than twenty-five years in New Zealand, he set up and successfully managed ‘plant propagation operation’ business on commercial scale.
RAVI SAINI Director / Business Manager
Ravi manages the operations and key marketing aspects of the plant propagation business which includes commercial vegetable-seedlings contracts, native plant production and supplies, and management. He has a Diploma in Horticulture, Bachelor of Business in marketing and management, post graduate diploma in business administration and MBA from the university of Auckland. He handles Rupex Growtech’ day-to-day operations and overall management.
JATINDER Saini Director / Manager
Jatinder holds a degree in Biological Sciences and has been involved in the Greenhouse management for more than twenty years. She looks after day-to-day management of the greenhouses and monitors plug-plant quality.
Accreditations & Memberships
RUPEX GROWTECH and its Directors have the following accreditations/memberships:
- NZ Gap approved for more than ten years https://www.nzgap.co.nz/
- Associate member of Horticulture New Zealand for over ten years https://www.hortnz.co.nz/
- Member of NZ Kiwifruit Growers Inc. https://www.nzkgi.org.nz/ ,
- Growsafe and chemical handler certificates https://www.growsafe.co.nz/
- Member of NZ Plant Producers Incorporated https://nzppi.co.nz/
- Member of International Plant propagator’s Society https://nz.ipps.org/
The accreditations and memberships help us to keep UpToDate with latest development in technology and industry norms.