By Kishan Karunakaran, CEO, Buyofuel India’s cement production capacity is expected to reach 550 MT by 2025. The cement demand is estimated to touch 419.92 MT by FY 2027 driven…
By Ananda Verma, Founder, Fasal The Indian agriculture sector is facing various challenges such as land fragmentation, climate change, declining soil fertility, low productivity, limited access to markets, high input…
By Prabhat Chaturvedi, CEO, Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency Pvt. Ltd. (NAFA) Agriculture is a dominant sector of the Indian economy, with approximately 85 per cent of farm holdings being less…
By Ram Kaundinya, Director General, Federation of Seed Industry of India (FSII) The Union Budget 2023-24, presented by the Finance Minister has many positive announcements for agriculture in general and…
By Kanishka Salwan, Head of Innovations (Pulp & Fibre), Yash Pakka Agriculture-based industries generate a huge amount of waste from different agricultural activities. About one-third of the total food produced…
By Raju Kapoor, Director, Public & Industry Affairs, FMC India India’s agrochemical industry has consistently clocked a double-digit CAGR of 16 per cent over the last five years against the…
By Dr Ashish Agarwal, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Weather Risk Management Services (WRMS) In recent years, technology-driven products, services, and solutions have substantially improved the dairy business in India.…
Private capital needs to be made to work harder and create meaningful assets for the country. The startup ecosystem has grown tremendously in the past few years. However, if one…
The company also expects that rationalizing GST on agrochemicals to be at par with other agri-inputs will reduce cost pressures on the farmers. Ravi Annavarapu, President, FMC India expressed expectations…
ICAR has initiated a network project on All India Coordinated Research Project on Biotech crops which has both research and third-party evaluation components for the targeted traits Dr Himanshu Pathak,…
The wine market in India is set to grow to $274 million by 2026 as per the latest market reports. The demand for premium wine brands is increasing among consumers…
By Rohan Rehani, Co-founder, Moonshine Meadery Mead is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey. To draw parallels, just like beer is made by fermenting barley, and wine is made…
Beer accounts for a third of the Indian alcoholic beverages market, in volume terms. Euromonitor projects the total volume of beer will increase at a 6 per cent CAGR to…
The Supreme Court of India has raised a very pertinent observation seeking compelling reasons for the release of GM mustard in its hearing held on Dec 2, 2022. In response,…