Agribusiness and Technology

Revolutionizing the Future of Farming
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-93-5479-190-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

The future of farming is here.

Countries all over the world are racing to revolutionize farming.

Indian agricultural sector, however, is facing several challenges and needs a makeover.

India should adopt agritech to make farming lucrative on a sustained basis and liberate its farmers.

Based on the author’s grassroot level discussions with thousands of farmers, entrepreneurs and policymakers, and a deep study of global trends, Agribusiness and Technology deliberates on the future of farming in India. It takes into consideration the farmers’ views and pain points, and pitches modern methods, best practices, effective business models and the use of technology as the best solution to make farming more lucrative, even for the small farmer. It provides a pathway for an early and impactful adoption of the various solutions.

The book will speak to all—social entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, farmers, policymakers and students invested in the Indian agricultural sector and agribusiness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sahgal, Sujit

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Dinesh Khara
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: Framing the Problem and the Solution
In Search of a SOLID Farming Model
Beating the Size Problem
PART II: The Who and How of Farming
Who Will Run the Farms
How Will They Run It
PART III: Understanding Agritech: The Old and the New
Towards a Broad Definition of Technology in Agriculture
Slicing and Dicing Technology
PART IV: Lay of the Land: A Global and Indian Perspective
Mapping the Global Agritech Landscape
The Indian Agritech Landscape
What the Government is Doing and Where It Should Focus
PART V: Ground Stories and Farmer Inputs
What the Farmer Knows and Thinks
Understanding the Farmer’s Pain Points and Looking for the Sweet Spot
PART VI: Closing the Loop with All Stakeholders Together
Bridging the Gaps and Providing a Pathway
A Marriage Made on Earth
How Modern Methods Can Change Agriculture Forever
Appendix: More Ground Stories

Über Autor(innen)

Sahgal, Sujit
Sujit Sahgal is a financial markets professional with over 28 years of experience in various investment banks in India and rest of Asia. Over the years, his area of work has included macroeconomics, investment strategy, sector and company research, equity sales as well as investing globally across asset classes. He completed his MBA in 1993 and has spent most of his working career based in Singapore, having recently returned to India.

During his research days, he was ranked number 1 analyst for global IT services research by Institutional Investor. He was also consistently ranked as a top-three analyst in Asia by Asiamoney and Institutional Investor. Among various financial institutions, he has spent close to a decade with UBS AG and ran his own global macro, multi-strategy hedge fund from Singapore for a few years. He has been with HSBC since 2010 and is currently the head of institutional equities for HSBC India.

He is the author of the book A Wall Street View of Rural India: A Banker’s Diary of a Decade of Road Trips (June 2020). The book captures his observations, insights and views emanating from nearly a dozen rural trips done over the last 10 years across 7–8 states of India and meeting hundreds of farmers covering close to a hundred villages. The trips included 300–400 foreign investors from over 10 countries who were trying to gauge the overall health of the rural economy, which is such an important part of India.

Apart from his interests in the financial markets and rural India, he is a travel and trekking enthusiast. He is a serious poet of Urdu and writes under the pen name Haasil.

He regularly recites in mushairas and Urdu literature festivals all over India and internationally. His first collection of Urdu ghazals and nazms is under preparation to be published soon. He also loves horseback riding, skiing and a round of golf in his free time.

He is married to his college sweetheart of 32 years and has two sons, who are working overseas. He currently lives in Mumbai, with his wife and the love of their life, their yellow Labrador__Cheers!