My mother is the reason I am in existence and she is the single most reason for whatever little I have done in my life. We have been farmers for thousands of years probably. I don’t not have access to any information beyond the names going up to my great grand father. The family went…
Great meeting and lunch with Parmeshwar and Nitin the promoters and founders of TECHENCE which is Poultry industry focused SAS Co. They are strong domain guys who built a software Company out of village near Rajgurunagar Pune. This is a bootstrapped and profitable company.The interesting bit is that the main promoter has only HSC level…
Met the absolutely brilliant team of 8 cofounders of a bootstrapped and profitable startup recently.All 8 are farmers kids and have built the venture by solving problems faced by their own family members. Shrilesh Mande is the brilliant leader of this team and I regard him as the Elon Musk of rural India!! Leading a…
Met a great team of leaders from Sanmitra FPC recently. They are into procurement, marketing and primary processing. They have done onion processing to the tune of 300MT and 25 MT of Tomatoes which involves dehydration in an interesting partnership with a startup. They work on a hub and spoke model which gives fixed and…
I met one of the most amazing persons of my life today in the form of Shrimati Bhimabai Sampat Jondhale. Bhimabai is the promoter of a unique “Ajjichya Pustakancha Hotel (Grandmothers Hotel with books)” which is a unique format restaurant which has more than 8000 publications on its premises to encourage clients, especially youngsters, to…
Indigram Labs is one of the very few incubators in the country that solely focuses on food and agriculture. With the rise of startups in these sectors, what are the major changes you are seeing? Our estimation is that there are more than 1000 startups in this space trying to address solutions across all the…
With agricultural reforms under the spotlight currently, the government needs to consider a massive village-level infrastructure project with measures like enhancing the storage of produce and establishing gram mandis or haats. Not only would this add value to the agricultural supply chain, it would also empower rural units and the farmer community, ultimately leading to…
Education in agriculture needs to undergo shifts from a production mindset to a market-oriented mindset. Academics and industry linkages need to be deepened and strengthened. Academics and startups need to be in constant dialogue and collaborate to bring positive changes in the lives of Indian farmers. The FPO movement in India also needs strong support…
This can be the key to efficient price discovery so that farmers are ensured best realisation for their produce The National Agriculture Market (NAM) was envisaged as a pan-India electronic trading portal launched on April 14, 2016 completely funded by Central Government and implemented by Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC). The eNAM portal works to…
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“फीफा-एफपी/कॉप सोसाइटी आत्मनिर्भरता अभियान” Episode 10“भोसे एग्रो FPC की व्यापारिक सफलता में विविधता कैसे मददगार रही ?”वक्ता: श्री अनवर शेख, प्रबंध निदेशक, भोसे एग्रो प्रोड्यूसर कंपनी लिoश्री अनवर शेख, भोसे एग्रो प्रोड्यूसर कंपनी लिo के प्रबंध निदेशक हैं । भोसे एग्रो की स्थापना 2016 में हुई थी । वर्तमान में उनके 1325 सदस्य हैं ।…
