Agribusiness

First Published in: Agro Spectrum 01th Sep 2022

The need for an institutional mechanism like farm insurance is critical to support farming households during extreme crop losses. Indian central and state governments have introduced and implemented farm insurance schemes since the 1970s.

Over the last five years, agtech investments in India have focused on creating farm level supply chain, farm productivity enhancement and farm produce aggregation and delivery. While there has been surge of investments in three years…

Indian agribusiness enterprises currently suffer from a lack of new investments. The key agriculture productivity-enhancing segments such as the seed sector, crop protection sector, and farm mechanization have suffered from a lack of new…

The shift of agriculture from subsistence agriculture to use of agrochemicals in mid-20thcentury was a mixed-blessing and not a “curse-in-disguise” for humanity. The agrochemicals refer to refer to inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. A…

The year 2018 was a year of hectic consolidation in global agri business. Conclusion of the merger of six global corporations having diverse business interest into three mega corporations was an unprecedented corporate consolidation in…

Pesticides and agro-chemicals are governed by the Insecticides Act, 1968, and Insecticides Rules, 1971, which regulate import, registration, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides (pesticides). Insecticides are…

Indian farmlands will now need to focus on the adoption of technology to generate the required profits. This was stated by agricultural experts during a panel discussion, titled Indian Agriculture: Overcoming the Challenges for Technology…

India falls within top 10 ranks in the total production of most crops, however, India’s productivity ranking is very poor and is not even in the top 50 in many crops. i Precision Agriculture (PA) is one technique to directly influence crop…