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"To those who work in acres, not in hours. We thank you!" Happy Farmer's Day! Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Hemendra Mathur Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak

"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization." Happy Farmer's Day! Ritu Verma Hemendra Mathur Raman Ahuja Ram Kaundinya Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak

ThinkAg, BioSTL and AgVayā co-hosted an event- Regen Ag Symposium 2024 at Hyatt Place Hyderabad Banjara Hills on 17th Dec. This event oversaw the participation of 65 representatives from #Government #researchinstitutes #universities #corporates #startups #thinktanks #industry #farmercollectives #grassrootorganisations etc. There were 3 addresses by Vijay Chauhan, Praveen Rao Velchala and Sivakumar S, followed by a panel discussion among Dr. KV Rao, CS Reddy, Srinivasakumar Karavadi Sharvanee Saundarya (moderated by Venkata Subbarao Kolli) and use cases presented by Ajai Rana, Rajashekar Reddy Seelam (Raj Seelam) Nikhilesh Kumar Karthik Rao S GlobalSTL INERA™ Kaveri University ITC Limited Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture APMAS INERA™ Mitti Labs Sresta Natural Bioproducts Private Limited Vassar Labs Core CarbonX Solutions Pvt Ltd D Narain Ram Kaundinya Dr. Pallavi Tak Abhijit Goswami #regenerativeagriculture #sustainability #natural #innovations #technology #agritech #partnerships #collaborations #hyderabad #telangana #agriculture #agri #india #Soil #land #water #biodiversity #climate #greenhousegasemissions #livestock #farmer #intercropping #vegetation #agroforestry #handtools #pollination #nutrition #food #tradition #culture #community

| Attention | All the agri-food-tech enthusiasts who participated in ThinkAg's Harvesting Tomorrow Summit (THTS) 2024, also those who missed being a part of it this year, here is a snapshot of the discussions from the THTS forum. We thank all our partners, speakers & participants for making it possible, beautiful and inspirational! Celebrating the spirit of resilience in agriculture, refueling the enthusiasm of the innovators, acknowledging the stakeholders contributing immensely, and catalysing forward looking thinking, here is a trail that will be our reference guide. We look forward to keeping the conversations going and seeing you at THTS 2025! Claim your copy- https://bit.ly/4gfOStE Rabo Foundation Bram Spann 🌱💡Dheeraj Mutreja Google Chintan Shah Siddharth Prakash State Bank of India Excel Industries Ltd. Novonesis Godrej Agrovet Limited SatSure Crystal Crop Protection Limited RASI SEEDS KhetiBuddy String Bio Private Limited WWF-India AND Business Consulting Hemendra Mathur Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak #agriculture #agriinnovations #agrifinance #blendedfinance #biologicals #startups #farmers #DigitalPublicGoods #Climateresilience #Farmmechanization #startupfunding #debtfinance #AIforAgriculture #foodtech #agrifoodwaste #Agriinsurance #naturalresourceefficiency

ThinkAg is hosting an in-person event- Regen Ag Symposium 2024 at Hyatt Place Hyderabad Banjara Hills on 17th Dec 2024 (Tue) between 10.00 am to 2.30 pm. This event has a limited seating capacity and hence representatives of #Government #researchinstitutes #universities #corporates #startups #thinktanks #industry #farmercollectives #grassrootorganisations etc. interested to participate can fill in the registration form (link given below). The delegate confirmation will be issued via email, once the registration request has been reviewed. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gM5WwmmQ BioSTL GlobalSTL AgVayā INERA™ Ram Kaundinya Vijay Chauhan Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak D Narain Srinivasakumar Karavadi #regenerativeagriculture #sustainability #natural #innovations #technology #agritech #partnerships #collaborations #hyderabad #telangana #agriculture #agri #india #Soil #land #water #biodiversity #climate #greenhousegasemissions #livestock #farmer #intercropping #vegetation #agroforestry #handtools #pollination #nutrition #food #tradition #culture #ommunity

The first panel of the Fortifying Farmer Finances track was Amplifying Access Delivering Agri-Financing to Smallholder Farmers which was moderated by Anilkumar SG. The speakers in this panel were Chattanathan Devarajan, Bharati Joshi, Sunil Kumar Tadepalli, Albert Boogaard, and shantanu pendsey. The thing about ThinkAg is the audience are as qualified as the panelists, keeping them on their toes. One such question shot out of the audience during our panel was "What percentage of fields are finance today?" This simple question stirred nothing short of a tsunami among panelists as they realized how misguiding the metrics they currently use—"affordability of lending" and "percentage of an organization's contribution to the total value of lending to smallholder farmers"—is.. A panelist shared their experience of finding 42% of farmers being first-time borrowers, and another recalled that 89% of small holder farmers still don’t have access to finance. The moderator urged ThinkAg to write a white paper on the dimension of increasing access rather than being focused on affordability. Rabo Foundation Bram Spann 🌱💡Dheeraj Mutreja Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Hemendra Mathur Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak #ThinkAg #ThinkAgHarvestingTomorrowSummit2024 #foodtech #agritech #futureofagriculture #startupindia #agribusiness #ThinkAgIndia

The panel Catalyzing Capital: Innovative financing for agri-food innovation was moderated by Megha Jain. The speakers in this panel were Neha Baid, HARI RAJAGOPAL, Royston Braganza, Shivam Jumani, and Madhavika Bajoria. What is the fun in a panel if there is no debate. While the broader goal was helping the agri-food sector get better access to capital, our panel had diametrically opposite ideas on how to achieve it. One speaker shared that blended finance is the way to go, while another cautions us against it and urges us to focus on delivering on performance metrics. Rabo Foundation Bram Spann 🌱💡Dheeraj Mutreja Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Hemendra Mathur Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak #ThinkAg #ThinkAgHarvestingTomorrowSummit2024 #foodtech #agritech #futureofagriculture #startupindia #agribusiness #ThinkAgIndia

Four revolutionary innovations were presented in the Nutritious Future of Food. Ankit Alok Bagaria, Co-Founder & CEO of Loopworm presented the firm’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing products. Ragul Paramasivam [He/Him/His] PhD, Co-Founder & CEO of Chimertech Private Limited one-stop-solution for mastitis management Ritesh Sutaria, Director at Prompt DairyTech Equipments presented their cutting-edge dairy tech solutions. Yoni Ben Zaken, Co-Founder & VP- Business Development of NOF showcased their solutions for post-harvest treatments that extend shelf life. Google Cloud Rabo Foundation Bram Spann 🌱💡 Dheeraj Mutreja Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Hemendra Mathur Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak #ThinkAg #ThinkAgHarvestingTomorrowSummit2024 #foodtech #agritech #futureofagriculture #startupindia #agribusiness #ThinkAgIndia #NutritiousFutureofFood

The second panel under Nutritious Future of Food was Upstream Innovation: Novel Feed Interventions for Protein Value Chains which was moderated by Burjis Godrej. The speakers in this panel were Dr. Dinesh Bhosale, Dr.Manojkumar Aware, Praveen K Sappa, PhD, Shuvadip Banerjee and Saket Dave. This discussion focused on nutrition, health and sustainability-focused innovations in animal protein production. It shed light on promising feed and healthcare innovations improving animal health, farmer livelihoods and animal protein quality and nutritional value, what barriers these innovations are facing in commercializing at scale and how technical advancements and/or ecosystem support can enable them to become accessible at scale. Rabo Foundation Bram Spann 🌱💡Dheeraj Mutreja Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Hemendra Mathur Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak #ThinkAg #ThinkAgHarvestingTomorrowSummit2024 #foodtech #agritech #futureofagriculture #startupindia #agribusiness #ThinkAgIndia #NutritiousFutureoffood

The first panel under Nutritious Future of Food was Supply-chain Solutions: Maximizing food quality and nutrition for consumers at scale which was moderated by Utham Gowda. The speakers in this panel were Shobhit Jain and Shridhar Mehta. Supply chains in India are long and complex given the distance and stakeholders involved from the source to the market. The complexity increases due to the large reliance on untrained human judgment coupled with a lack of data in usable form. The panel brought out diametrically different approaches to solving this complex problem—one invested in technology across the supply chain, and when the domestic market couldn’t afford the technology overheads, decided to shift to exports, while the other graded both demand and supply and applied a matching algorithm, and the third built technology products to collect data to offer to the supply chain, but when he didn’t see a P&L impact, he changed his customer to banks. It is interesting to see how creatively the data and technology spends have been financed in all 3 cases. Rabo Foundation Bram Spann 🌱💡Dheeraj Mutreja Ritu Verma Ram Kaundinya Raman Ahuja Hemendra Mathur Abhijit Goswami Dr. Pallavi Tak #ThinkAg #ThinkAgHarvestingTomorrowSummit2024 #foodtech #agritech #futureofagriculture #startupindia #agribusiness #ThinkAgIndia #NutritiousFutureofFood