Agritech Special 2022
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How Agrowave is building a farm-to-market business
Farmers spend day and night travelling to mandis to sell their produce, haggling over prices, dealing with traders and middlemen, and worrying about storage. Agrowave is trying to solve these problems
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BigHaat: A crop advisory for farmers
The Bengaluru-based agritech company leverages data, technology and crop science, and connects quality input manufacturers with farmers through an app
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Ergos: Grain as an asset and currency
By creating grain banks, Ergos is converting farmers' harvest into a collateral which can be used to access finance—it operates at 250 locations with 150,000 farmers and 1,100 traders
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5 agri-fintech startups powering agriculture in the hinterland
While fintech startups might be under the RBI scanner, agri-fintech startups are filling in critical gaps in the supply chain, impacting farmers and attracting funding
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Drones are becoming the Indian farmer's new best friend
Drones help save time, cost, increase yield and productivity but a lot more needs to be done to make the most of the technology
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Agritech investors: Not for the faint hearted
Investors don't doubt the potential and opportunities that India's agritech sector provides, but investing here is a game of patience as business models take longer to be productive
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How rainmaker Sanjiv Mehta is building up HUL for the next decade
As it comes out of a long period of steady and sustained growth, India's largest FMCG company has put in place the building blocks for the next decade
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Making of the cover story: Unspooling Hindustan Unilevers' plans for the next decade
Once a company becomes of a certain size, it gets harder to keep up the growth rate. Does it stand true for Hindustan Unilever as well? To Samar Srivastava, writer of this cover story, Hindustan Unilever's CEO and MD Sanjiv Mehta comes across as somebody who is always looking at where his next bit of growth is going to come from. In this podcast, he discusses Mehta's approach and how he has set up HUL for the next decade
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Ground Report: From Gujarat's Botad to Maharashtra's Junnar—impact of agri-tech firms on farmers
While technology is improving produce and farmer income, there are still many deep-rooted problems in the agricultural industry that is leading to crop failure and depleted income for farmers— the need for solutions to these problems will be key for the success of agri-tech startups