DVISSA's Journey: From Bihar's Forests to Your Table

The question that started DVISSA was simple: where can I find genuinely pure honey in India? In 2018, a CSE (Centre for Science and Environment) report revealed that over 70% of commercial honey brands in India had failed purity tests. The adulteration — primarily with high-fructose corn syrup and sugar syrups — was systematic and widespread.

DVISSA's founders — childhood friends from Patna who had grown up eating genuine forest honey from their family's village connections — decided to build the supply chain they wished existed. Not as a small-batch artisan project, but as a scalable business that could bring genuine purity to urban consumers across India.

The first step was establishing direct relationships with beekeeping communities. This took over two years of fieldwork — travelling to remote areas of Jharkhand, Bihar, and Uttarakhand, earning the trust of communities that had been exploited by middlemen for generations, and building a fair-trade model that paid 30-40% above market rates.

The second step was quality infrastructure. DVISSA invested in a cold-chain from collection point to warehouse — ensuring honey never exceeded 35°C throughout the supply chain. We built our own in-house testing lab capable of detecting over 200 adulterants, and we send samples to NABL-accredited third-party labs for independent verification.

The third step — the hardest one — was consumer education. Telling customers that what they had always bought wasn't real honey is a difficult message. But gradually, as DVISSA's reputation grew, so did the demand from consumers who wanted the real thing and were willing to pay for it. That community is DVISSA's foundation — and its future.