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The partnership enables Unnati to offer its network of retailers and farmers climate mitigation products.

Unnati, a fintech-powered digital farming company, announced that company has partnered with Prince Pipes, an integrated piping solutions provider. The partnership will offer Unnati’s retailers and customers a range of Prince Pipes’ products, beginning with agricultural pipes ‘Aquafit’ and borewell pipes ‘Safefit’. The company mentioned that the partnership enables Unnati to offer its network of retailers and farmers climate mitigation products.

By teaming up with Unnati, Prince Pipes will tap into a vast online customer base, leveraging the convenience and efficiency of digital channels, mentioned the release.

Amit Sinha, Co-Founder and Director of Unnati, said: “We are excited to join hands with Prince Pipes in this collaboration. Their longstanding presence in the pipes industry aligns well with our vision to offer our customers top quality products. This association allows us to ensure that retailers and customers associated with Unnati have access to high-quality pipes, benefiting their businesses and improving water-related solutions in their farms.”

Nihar Chheda, VP Strategy, Prince Pipes & Fittings Ltd, said: “At Prince Pipes we understand the importance of embracing digital platforms to meet the evolving needs and expectations of our customers. Partnering with Unnati will allow us to expand our engagement with agri customers, to offer a seamless and enhanced online shopping experience. We are excited to embark on this digital journey and look forward to aligning more actively with agriculture-led communities through our range of products.”

The partnership enables Unnati to offer its

Agrotech, Opinions

By Amit Sinha, Co-Founder, Unnati

Agriculture, as we all know, is crucial to our sustenance, as it forms the foundation of our lives. Today, we cannot fathom an existence without agriculture, the primary source of our food, and given the growing population, the food requirements are only increasing further. India, a majorly agrarian economy and an emerging market, is among the top four food-producing countries in the world. However, despite over half of the country’s population being involved in agriculture, the sector was one of the slowest in technology adoption compared to others.

Today, with technology being an integral part of the agri ecosystem and agritech startups bringing innovative solutions, the agriculture sector has registered impressive growth in a short period. But for agri retailers, the scenario isn’t quite the same since they are plagued with challenges, and as is the case with most issues in the modern world, technology can be a game-changer. Here’s how.

The gap in supply chain integration

Agri retailers make up a vital cog in the agricultural ecosystem. They are the primary source of supply for farmers in terms of seeds, nutrients, equipment, and crop protection products, among others, so when retailers face challenges, it impacts the entire ecosystem. Today, there is skyrocketing demand for consistently high-quality food, alongside the growing demand for overall food production.

However, this poses challenges for supply chain integration, creating inefficiencies. Lack of storage space, improper care and negligent post-harvest management are some of the factors coming into play to create discrepancies in supply chain integration. With technologies like AI, ML, IoT, and Data Analytics, we can automate and digitise processes to make them more efficient and bridge the gaps while ensuring quality control.

Increasing competition and gaining a wider reach

In recent years, agri retailers have witnessed cut-throat competition in the market from both online and offline players in the segment. Besides, internet proliferation is at an all-time high, especially in non-metros and rural regions, and farmers are now becoming more tech-savvy with increased awareness. They compare products from multiple retailers before purchasing. This means that agri-retailers will have to innovate, increase their reach, and gain more knowledge about complex products to stay ahead and thrive in the competitive market.

To help increase their reach and network and solve these challenges at the grassroots level, agri-tech startups are offering innovative, tech-powered solutions. For instance, right from helping retailers take their business online to expanding their network of customers, farmers, and wholesale markets, data-driven analysis and AI-powered tools used by agri-tech startups are offering strong market linkages to agri retailers.

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 It aims to bridge the gap between retailers and modern ways of doing business, which will prove profitable for all agricultural stakeholders including farmers.

Taking significant strides to make the agriculture sector more informative, productive and filled with progressive individuals, Unnati, a fintech-driven agriculture ecosystem, has launched a one-of-its-kind platform called the Agri-Retailer Academy.

This unprecedented academy will equip retailers with adequate education on best practices of running an outlet, hands-on training to master digital ways, data collection and analytics techniques, farmer engagement methods and methodologies to expand the knowledge of sustainable farming to ground stakeholders. This initiative is likely to bridge the gap between retailers and much-needed modern ways of doing business, which will eventually prove profitable for all agricultural stakeholders including farmers. Farmers will also greatly benefit from this initiative as the retailers will be well-informed about their business leading to better product recommendations, availability etc.

For the uninitiated, Unnati has recently also introduced Retailer Insurance for its vast network of uStores to safeguard retailers against business uncertainties. Millions of small agriculture business owners and retailers struggle with a dearth of proper knowledge, information about new-age practices and modern resources, so Unnati is working on its mission to offer them appropriate guidance to scale their growth.

This initiative to launch a specialised Agri-Retailer Academy is another measure Unnati has taken to support the underserved retailer community in the agriculture segment. It currently has a complete network of more than 48K+ retailers and plans to expand this number to 1 lakh by the end of this fiscal year.

 Amit Sinha, Co-founder, Unnati said, “At Unnati, we firmly believe retailers are an integral part of the agriculture ecosystem. Our biggest priority is to assist them in understanding modern practices and tools and help their business scale productively and safely. The Agri-Retailer Academy is launched to keep the same vision in mind. We intend to encourage retailers to become more confident and secure, to be able to survive today’s highly-competitive world, and continuously evolve during these trying yet rapidly changing times. This initiative will definitely provide the much-needed help and support retailers need and strengthen our overall agriculture ecosystem. This is just another step in the right direction.”

 It aims to bridge the gap between

Agrotech, Start ups

Unnati plans to spray 20,000 acres of land by the end of 2022 and increase the drones’ spray capacity 4x by next year

Unnati, a FinTech-driven agriculture ecosystem, has launched a Drone Spray service for farmers. The platform will be utilizing a fleet of DGCA-approved (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) drones to offer the service.

Equipped with a high-precision spray and features like “Return to launch’ and Geofencing” the drones have the capacity to spray water/pesticides/fertilizers for one acre of land in under 8 minutes, resulting in up to 95 per cent of water-saving. Leveraging AI, the drones will ensure optimal use of the spray system in a non-hazardous technique that prevents chemicals from entering farmers’ cardiovascular systems.

Amit Sinha, Co-Founder of Unnati, commented, “Drone technology is no longer a pipe dream, especially not for the agriculture sector. We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Drone Spray service for farmers. Unnati has always maintained a singular focus on bettering the lives of farmers across the country, and our latest service will take us a step closer to achieving that goal. We are confident that farmers will benefit immensely from the Drone Spray, a service that is efficient and not harmful.”

Unnati plans to spray 20,000 acres of land by the end of 2022 and increase the drones’ spray capacity 4x by next year. Furthermore, the platform has aligned itself with the Aviation Ministry’s long-term vision of making India a global drone hub and will be open to collaboration to ensure the benefits are leveraged by more farmers across the country.

Unnati plans to spray 20,000 acres of

Agrotech

The company plans to impact the lives of 1 crore farmers by 2025 by leveraging its tech infrastructure

Unnati, a FinTech-driven agriculture ecosystem, however, has stayed well ahead in terms of utilising FPOs and robust tech infrastructure to enhance farmers’ lives and revolutionise the agriculture sector. The latest announcements by the government will help further the platform’s work and create a robust Agri ecosystem in India.

Giving farmers access to tech-led business solutions to enhance their economic strengths and market linkages, Unnati empowers them through FPOs, thereby increasing farmers’ overall income. The platform equips FPOs to leverage their collective strengths and bargaining power to access financial and non-financial farm inputs, services, and technologies to optimise transaction costs and tap into high-value markets.

Furthermore, Unnati has envisaged impacting small farmers by directly supporting FPOs through a host of services, including digital payments, banking, output sale, loans, brand promotions, and agri advisory and farm predictions.

Commenting on Unnati’s FPO partnership and the government’s latest policies, Amit Sinha, Co-Founder of Unnati, said, “Unnati has been committed to building a robust ecosystem where farmers can gain easy access to the market, know their inputs and increase the quality of their yield. We have partnered with FPOs to do the same. The latest policies announced by the government will help us take this to the next level and create a robust agriculture ecosystem where farmers can reap the benefits of having access to a technologically sound working system. On the back of the Budget, we will continue to work towards the betterment of farmers’ lives through a digital agri network.”

Unnati plans to partner with 10k+ FPOs which will subsequently impact the lives of 1 crore farmers by the year 2025.

The company plans to impact the lives

Finance

Hopes that the upcoming budget will prioritise R&D incentivisation in agriculture besides an increase in rural infrastructure

Agri expects have shared their pre-budget wishlist. Amit Sinha, Co-Founder, Unnati, expects the government to keep farmer upliftment, alongside rural growth and development as their topmost priority. An increase in investments of rural infrastructure, MSME development, digitisation of the agri-ecosystem, and farmer productivity prioritisation of Agritech to fund early-stage start-ups that are disrupting the agricultural economy also need to be focussed on, according to him.

Sinha adds, “Some additional focus areas could be the allocation of funds for increased digitalisation in the agricultural ecosystem, the promotion of collaboration between district governance and Agritech startups to bring innovative solutions to the farmers’ market, providing subsidies or cutbacks on taxes to farmers who opt for Agritech products. Easy access to capital, tax relaxation, and interest subvention to encourage FPO setups will allow the agritech industry to grow quickly and will help FPOs to gain traction in this new era.

He also mentions financial support to farmers, extensions to important government schemes like Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, PM-Kisan Scheme, etc., the government will need to turn their attention to.

According to Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, CEO & Founder,, 2021 was a good year for the agritech sector, which flourished with strong investments and greater adoption of technologies in the market. Bhamra hopes that the upcoming budget will prioritise R&D incentivisation in agriculture, along with the supportive impetus to allow agritech businesses, particularly start-ups, to scale domestically at a greater pace.The emerging agritech ecosystem also requires a focus on infrastructure development and governance frameworks to spur more innovation in the sector. Fiscal considerations can be beneficial to facilitate the growth of the Indian agritech sector in 2022, is what he has to say.

Hopes that the upcoming budget will prioritise