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Agribusiness Matters with Venky Ramachandran

Venky Ramachandran•www.agribizmatters.com
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Agribusiness Matters Podcast is hosted by Venky Ramachandran - agritech analyst, independent consultant and writer. Agribusiness Matters is an endeavour to discover systems thinking in agriculture. In this podcast, Venky engages in deep conversations with various members of agritech ecosystem. He likes to jokingly call himself an Agritech Schrodinger’s cat that is neither too cosily snuggled inside the ecosystem to lose perspective of bigger problems such as Climate Change, nor too far outside the ecosystem to influence the live-fire consciousness of agritech founders and investors.
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Episodes

The Future of Regenerative Agriculture is Agroecology: Dialogue with Ramanjaneyulu GV

With every David and Goliath Agritech player now co-opting ‘Regenerative Agriculture’, ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ has officially entered the trough of disillusionment. Mind you, in a country like India, ‘regenerative agriculture’ is as much illegible as ‘organic agriculture’ or ‘natural farming’. Rightfully so, because each agroclimatic zone adapts ‘agroecology’ based on their specific ecological niche. In a country with more than 1.8 million organic producers spanning over 2.66 million hectares...

Mar 01, 2024•2 hr 5 min

'Each Product is a minimum 1000 crore opportunity'

Ajay TG, General Manager, Westfalia Fruit India, joined the Agribusiness Matters Townhall to talk of possibilities for agritech startups in exporting fresh and processed produce to international markets. In this spellbinding, candid conversation with hard-earned ground insights, we discussed, Why Westfalia globally has been focusing on geographical adjacencies- focusing squarely on avocado while scaling new areas of production? How Westfalia has responded to climate change-induced supply chain d...

Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 55 min

Organic Food Branding Master Class with Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa) and Ryan Siwinski (GoodSam Foods)

How do you navigate the tensions between being mission-driven and building a sustainable business in organic/regenerative food space? Although Ryan and Shashi come from diverse worlds, there is a fascinating parallel in the work they are doing in the regenerative/organic food space. Whether it is GoodSam Foods or Akshayakalpa Organic, both are mission-driven, focusing more on direct-trade, local-supply chain models, and building deep relationships with farmers and farm partners. Building an orga...

Mar 01, 2024•1 hr

Thirty Years of Agribusiness with Venkata Subbarao Kolli

Subbarao looks back at his illustrious thirty-plus-year career to reflect (in hindsight) on what has changed and what has not in the Indian agri-inputs market landscape. In this extremely personal conversation with opinionated agribusiness insights that stem from first principles, Subbarao talks of How reading “Social Impact of Computers” changed his mind about the role of technology and how he fell in love with genetics and plant breeding. How doing a Ph.D. gave him an edge in the world of agri...

Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min

Farmer Advocacy Matters with Ajay Vir Jakhar

In this fascinating conversation, we explored What is the idea behind Bharat Krishak Samaj? How to understand the role of Farmer advocacy organizations vis-a-vis farmer unions? Why does politics remain an albatross around the neck of Agriculture? Why do farmers not have much say on the policies that affect them despite being a majority vote bank? How to understand this contradiction in a global context where farmers, say, in the US have a bigger say on policies than Indian farmers? Why is decont...

Mar 01, 2024•55 min

The Business of Plant Communication with Shely Aronov

Inner Plant Founder and CEO Shely Aronov joins us to talk about strategic tradeoffs, the evolution of technology, commoditization, and disrupting the consolidation of the Big 6 agri-input landscape. These are the questions we delved into: Why does Inner Plant consider its core business to be in traits and not chemistry? Would the farmer pay for data or the trait? Why does InnerPlant firmly believe in their customer mantra : “No additional work, no changes to operations, scalable, and affordable”...

Mar 01, 2024•52 min

On Organic Agriculture and Retail

In this edition of Agribusiness Matters Podcast ('Agritech Samvaad (Dialogue)), let's talk about organic Agriculture and retail. We are going to talk about the challenges in doing organic farming and retailing with an eminent panel. 1) Narasimha Nakshatri 2) Vishala Padmanabhan, Consultant Executive Director, PGS Organic Council 3) Shefalika Sharma, CEO, Froots . This dialogue happened live at Clubhouse...

Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 59 min
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