Ritu Verma

Godrej Agrovet is a diversified, Research & Development focused agri-business company, dedicated to improving the productivity of Indian farmers by innovating products and services that sustainably increase crop and livestock yields. We hold leading market positions in the different businesses in - Animal Feed, Crop Protection, Oil Palm, Dairy and Poultry and Processed Foods. Our Animal Feed business is one of the largest organised players in the Compound Feed market in India, with annual sales of more than a million tonnes across cattle, poultry, aqua feed and specialty feed. Our teams have worked closely with Indian farmers to develop over 61,700 hectares of smallholder Oil Palm Plantations to bridge the demand and supply of edible oil. We have plantations across Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. In our Crop Protection business, we meet the niche requirement of farmers through innovative agrochemical offerings. Our portfolio offers a range of products that cover the entire life-cycle of a crop. Continuing the business growth story, we acquired promoter holding in Astec Life Sciences Limited in 2015. Astec is a business to-business tech, bulk manufacturer of fungicides in India. We acquired controlling stake in Cream Line Dairy Products, a leading Dairy player in South India. The company has significant presence in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra, under the Jersey Brand name. In 2004, we entered into a joint venture with the Advanced Chemical Industries Limited (ACI) Group from Bangladesh, to manufacture and sell Compound Feed. The ACI-Godrej Agrovet joint venture ranks among the top three feed companies, across all categories in Bangladesh. Our poultry business, Godrej Tyson Foods, best known for two brands, Real Good Chicken and Yummiez, is a joint venture with Tyson Foods, one of the largest poultry processing companies in the world.

Vegrow is in the business of fresh fruits with addressable market size of $60 Billion. Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling to organized demand through partnership. Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers. Vegrow is a VC funded startup and founded by a group of IITians having a passion for agtech and with experience in agri-input & agri-output companies viz. AgroStar & ITC. The team has experience in building products from 0 to 1 and 1 to 100 solving critical problems of market places & B2B business like UrbanCompany & Chronus.

String’s purpose is to commercialize next generation ingredients that enable sustainability and traceability in evolving value chains. String Bio is in the business of manufacturing raw materials for Animal Nutrition, Agriculture, Human Nutrition and Personal Care sectors that are derived using a sustainable and traceable process. String, as one of the world leaders in gas fermentation, has a strong IP protected platform called SIMP (String Integrated Methane Platform) that enables production of high quality ingredients using methane. Our proprietary platform leverages advances in synthetic biology, fermentation technology, chemistry and process engineering. Our mission is simple: To innovate at the cutting edge of biology, engineering and chemistry to enable sustainable and scalable solutions in sectors that are fundamental to living. - Our impact is in enabling localized manufacturing that provide economically competitive alternatives. - Our impact is in leveraging the carbon in greenhouse gases to build strong value chains. - Our impact is in enabling safe, organic and natural options. - Our impact is in enabling inherent circularity in living.

THE NEW STANDARD IN FOOD QUALITY INSPECTION Agricx is the world’s first AI enabled SaaS stack for entities in the business of producing, trading, ​storing, transporting, processing or financing of agri produce/commodities.

FOUNTAINHEAD FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED is a food production company based out of #A-31/2, IDA, Nacharam, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Health Sutra helps consumers rediscover the tasty nutrition of Millets of India in modern, tasty & easy to use formats like Muesli, Cereal Flakes, 100% Millet Biscuits, Semolina, Beverage Mixes etc. All our products are natural and free from preservatives. Health Sutra products are currently available in 1500+ Stores in AP, Telangana and Bangalore City including MT Chains.

Founded in 2013, TESSOL (Thermal Energy Service Solutions Pvt Ltd) is a unique innovation-driven venture focused on solving the temperature-controlled food and pharma distribution problem in India. Over the last 5 years, with a proven technology edge and execution capability, TESSOL has positioned itself as a pioneer in the cold chain space and is currently a leading supplier of last mile solutions to the e-commerce segment. TESSOL has partnered with more than 100 customers and provides cutting edge cold chain solutions to leading brands across segments auch as dairy, ice-cream, meat, seafood, poultry and horticulture . TESSOL’s cold storage and logistics solutions are based on the award winning and proprietary “Thermal Energy Storage” technology. In addition to numerous global recognitions and media coverage, TESSOL has also been identified as one of the top 12 Agri start-ups to watch out for in 2018 by Inc 42 magazine

NIRAMAI has developed a novel breast cancer screening solution that uses Thermalytix, i.e. machine intelligence over thermography images. Our cloud hosted analytics solution uses big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for early & accurate breast cancer screening. This page is dedicated to updates regarding the latest developments about the industry and as well the company.

BigHaat is the largest pan India Agri Inputs digital marketplace platform. As a farmer-centric platform, we are providing a holistic solution offering personalized technical guidance and accessibility to a wide range of high quality inputs to the farmers. Since inception in 2015, we have been transforming the future of millions of farmers by leveraging the power of data, science and technology, thereby significantly improving sustainability and profitability for the farmers and over 4 million+ farmers across the country have engaged on the platform. Our ‘Direct-to-Farmer’ model is building an efficient and transparent Agri inputs ecosystem and transforming factory-to-farm supply-chain. Our data analytics platform for Agri Input manufacturers is offering key insights of demand-supply, new opportunities, product feedback and leading to significant reduction in marketing and distribution cost to over 200+ manufacturers. We are an industry leading platform today and growing rapidly with the huge internet penetration in rural India, and we aim to build India’s largest and dominant Agri digital platform with a target to impact over 10 Million farmers in next 3 years.

Founded in 2010, Cropin is a global Agtech pioneer who has built the worlds first purpose-built industry cloud for Agriculture - Cropin Cloud. Cropin Cloud enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and predictive intelligence to make effective decisions that increase farming efficiency, scale productivity, manage risk and environmental changes and enhance sustainability. Cropin has partnered with over 250+ B2B customers and digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. Our work over the last decade has enabled us to spearhead a global Ag-intelligence movement with a crop knowledge graph of 500+ crops and 10000+ crop varieties in 92 countries that powers the Cropin Cloud. Cropin Clouds Intelligence platform has already computed and provided predictive intelligence for over 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Godrej Agrovet is a diversified, Research & Development focused agri-business company, dedicated to improving the productivity of Indian farmers by innovating products and services that sustainably increase crop and livestock yields. We hold leading market positions in the different businesses in - Animal Feed, Crop Protection, Oil Palm, Dairy and Poultry and Processed Foods. Our Animal Feed business is one of the largest organised players in the Compound Feed market in India, with annual sales of more than a million tonnes across cattle, poultry, aqua feed and specialty feed. Our teams have worked closely with Indian farmers to develop over 61,700 hectares of smallholder Oil Palm Plantations to bridge the demand and supply of edible oil. We have plantations across Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. In our Crop Protection business, we meet the niche requirement of farmers through innovative agrochemical offerings. Our portfolio offers a range of products that cover the entire life-cycle of a crop. Continuing the business growth story, we acquired promoter holding in Astec Life Sciences Limited in 2015. Astec is a business to-business tech, bulk manufacturer of fungicides in India. We acquired controlling stake in Cream Line Dairy Products, a leading Dairy player in South India. The company has significant presence in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra, under the Jersey Brand name. In 2004, we entered into a joint venture with the Advanced Chemical Industries Limited (ACI) Group from Bangladesh, to manufacture and sell Compound Feed. The ACI-Godrej Agrovet joint venture ranks among the top three feed companies, across all categories in Bangladesh. Our poultry business, Godrej Tyson Foods, best known for two brands, Real Good Chicken and Yummiez, is a joint venture with Tyson Foods, one of the largest poultry processing companies in the world.

Vegrow is in the business of fresh fruits with addressable market size of $60 Billion. Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling to organized demand through partnership. Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers. Vegrow is a VC funded startup and founded by a group of IITians having a passion for agtech and with experience in agri-input & agri-output companies viz. AgroStar & ITC. The team has experience in building products from 0 to 1 and 1 to 100 solving critical problems of market places & B2B business like UrbanCompany & Chronus.

String’s purpose is to commercialize next generation ingredients that enable sustainability and traceability in evolving value chains. String Bio is in the business of manufacturing raw materials for Animal Nutrition, Agriculture, Human Nutrition and Personal Care sectors that are derived using a sustainable and traceable process. String, as one of the world leaders in gas fermentation, has a strong IP protected platform called SIMP (String Integrated Methane Platform) that enables production of high quality ingredients using methane. Our proprietary platform leverages advances in synthetic biology, fermentation technology, chemistry and process engineering. Our mission is simple: To innovate at the cutting edge of biology, engineering and chemistry to enable sustainable and scalable solutions in sectors that are fundamental to living. - Our impact is in enabling localized manufacturing that provide economically competitive alternatives. - Our impact is in leveraging the carbon in greenhouse gases to build strong value chains. - Our impact is in enabling safe, organic and natural options. - Our impact is in enabling inherent circularity in living.

THE NEW STANDARD IN FOOD QUALITY INSPECTION Agricx is the world’s first AI enabled SaaS stack for entities in the business of producing, trading, ​storing, transporting, processing or financing of agri produce/commodities.

FOUNTAINHEAD FOODS PRIVATE LIMITED is a food production company based out of #A-31/2, IDA, Nacharam, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Health Sutra helps consumers rediscover the tasty nutrition of Millets of India in modern, tasty & easy to use formats like Muesli, Cereal Flakes, 100% Millet Biscuits, Semolina, Beverage Mixes etc. All our products are natural and free from preservatives. Health Sutra products are currently available in 1500+ Stores in AP, Telangana and Bangalore City including MT Chains.