A conscious strategy to drive the competitiveness of value chains linked to its businesses enables ITC to make a more enduring contribution to national economic development. ITC's winning brands drive synergies to make these value chains sustainable and inclusive. At the same time, by nurturing and strengthening these value chains, ITC adds a unique source of competitive strength to its brands. These value chains contribute to farmer empowerment and enrich the rural ecosystem.
ITC's Farm-to-Fork Value Chain
A conscious strategy to drive the competitiveness of value chains linked to its businesses enables ITC to make a more enduring contribution to national economic development. ITC's winning brands drive synergies to make these value chains sustainable and inclusive. At the same time, by nurturing and strengthening these value chains, ITC adds a unique source of competitive strength to its brands. These value chains contribute to farmer empowerment and enrich the rural ecosystem.
ITC's Paper Value Chain
ITC's large-scale Afforestation Programme provides sustainable livelihoods to marginal and tribal households along with
a commercially viable land use option. These renewable plantations contribute to the carbon sequestration and soil
conservation objectives of the country and enable ITC to offer the greenest paper and paperboards products manifest in
stationery brands such as Classmate and Paperkraft, whilst creating largescale livelihoods. These plantations also provide a
competitive source of wood pulp to ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers Business. ITC has also developed a unique
agroforestry model, which enables marginal households to convert their low productivity lands into pulpwood plantations,
while at the same time helping derisk the farmer through additional production of crops within the same land area.
The Directors present the Business Responsibility Report of the Company for the financial year ended on 31st March, 2018, pursuant to Regulation 34(2)(f ) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. The Company also publishes annually, a comprehensive Sustainability Report, based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework.
The details on the aspects discussed in this Report are available in the Company's Sustainability Report. The Company's Board approved Sustainability Policies, ITC Code of Conduct and the Sustainability Report are available on the Company's website
The CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development(the Centre), established by ITC in 2006 in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), continues with its value added initiatives to create awareness, provide thought leadership, build capacity and award exemplary performance in the area of sustainability. It is steered by its Advisory Council, led by Mr Y C Deveshwar, Chairman, ITC Limited, and comprises members from industry, civil society and institutions, which provides strategic direction to the organisation.
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