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Experience centre showcases both packaged and unpackaged products

Sid’s Farm, a premium D2C dairy brand based out of Telangana, announces the inauguration and commencement of its first-ever store-cum-experience centre in the presence of Shaik Ghouse Mohiddin, Additional Chief Construction Engineer, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, GoI. This immersive and retail destination offers customers the opportunity to both purchase and consume Sid’s Farm’s high-quality, healthy, and pure products in the well-appointed and carefully designed store. Located within the premises of the DRDO Township in Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad, the centre intends to provide its services to more than 2,000 residents, spread across all ranks and staff, in the locality.

A distinguishing feature of the experience centre is its product mix which is a combination of both packaged as well as unpackaged items. Customers can additionally take advantage of doorstep delivery from this store should they like to do so. The unique store-cum-experience centre will be catering to bulk demands as well and to this end also offers catering support supplies to its customers. Quality and customer focus are the two unchanging pillars of Sid’s Farm operating code.

Dr Kishore Indukuri, Founder, Sid’s Farm said, “We have for long now been catering to more than 15,000 customers at their doorsteps every morning. While we encourage our customers to visit our farm, plant, and laboratory on Saturdays to see the effort we put in to ensure pure and clean milk free from antibiotics, hormones, and preservatives, we feel that this experience centre would be the perfect peek into our quality and processes for a much larger audience. We are extremely thankful to DRDO, Ministry of Defence, for allowing us this opportunity and the space on-campus. We intend to aggressively increase the count of such stores across the city in the coming days.”

Experience centre showcases both packaged and unpackaged

Agro chems – Chemicals, Interaction

FICCI has said that GST Council should consider the agrochemical industry request favourably seeking reduction of the tax rate on agrochemical inputs for the farm sector from current 18 per cent to 5 per cent at the maximum

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in a press conference held on June 22, 2022, has said that GST Council should consider the agrochemical industry request favourably seeking reduction of the tax rate on agrochemical inputs for the farm sector from current 18 per cent to 5 per cent at the maximum.

The 47th meeting of the GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will be held in Chandigarh on June 28 and 29.

Addressing the Press Conference on ‘Policy Landscape for a Flourishing Agrochemicals Industry’, organised by FICCI, R G Agarwal, Chair, FICCI Committee on Crop Protection and Chairman, Dhanuka Group said that high Goods and Service Tax (GST) on crop protection chemicals especially hurts small and marginal farmers by increasing their input cost and prompting them to use these essential ingredients in sub-optimal quantities to the detriment of farm output and their own financial health.

“A GST of 18 per cent on agrochemical is highly unjustified since they act as insurance to not only crop health but also increase their quality, yield and income of farmers. This high rate of 18 per cent is not justified and it should be brought down to a maximum of 5 per cent at par with fertilisers.”

Dr CD Mayee, a Former Agriculture Commissioner opined that Agrochemical industry acts as a backbone to our farmers and assures them of high yield with better quality produce while mitigating crop losses. In view of the climate changes and emerging threats of pest and disease there is urgent need to overhaul the regulatory system for introduction of new and innovative chemistries and technologies. There is also an urgent need to improve the enforcement mechanism, at several levels, to ensure the supply of high-quality agrochemicals to farmers on a sustainable basis.   

“This can be achieved with the cooperation of the private sector in addition to hiring adequate manpower and strengthening government laboratories, providing the latest analytical instruments, reference standards and making ISO17025 NABL certification mandatory as done under FSSAI Act as well as support from Quality Council of India or other independent organisations,” said Dr Mayee.

FICCI is organising its 11th Agrochemicals conference 2022 on the theme ‘Policy landscape for a flourishing Agrochemicals Industry’ on June 23 in New Delhi.

FICCI has said that GST Council should

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The company plans to significantly increase its presence to 100 Growing Centers in 20 countries

Infarm, a rapidly growing urban farming company with a global presence, announced that it has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round. The investment included participation from existing and new investors, including the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) – which will support the company’s expansion to countries in the Middle East – Partners in Equity, Hanaco, Atomico, Lightrock, and Bonnier.

The additional capital will serve to expand the deployment of the company’s vertical farms in the US, Canada, Japan and Europe, and to enter new markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East with both in-store farming units and Infarm Growing Centers. In 2023, Infarm will open its first Growing Center in Qatar, where it will harvest tomatoes, strawberries and other fruiting crops besides herbs, salads and leafy greens.

This new farming model can be as much as 400 times more efficient than soil-based agriculture and uses no chemical pesticides. It requires 95 per cent less land and uses 95 per cent less water by recycling water and nutrients and using the evaporated water of the plants. 

Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and UBS acted as financial advisors to Infarm on this transaction.

The company plans to significantly increase its