Agri & Allied Solutions
This category features solutions that support entrepreneurship in agriculture and allied sectors. These models strengthen livelihoods across the value chain — from production and aggregation to processing and market access — helping agri-entrepreneurs improve productivity, reduce losses, and access better incomes.
Solutions
Solution Provider: Syngenta Foundation
Trains rural youth to become agri-entrepreneurs (AEs) offering services like input supply, market linkage, credit, and mechanization support to smallholder farmers.
Impact Delivered: 20,000+ AEs trained, 1.5 million+ farmers impacted, 80%+ improvement in income and productivity.
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Solution Provider: Bansi Gir Gaushala
Creates livelihood opportunities through cow-based dairy, organic farming, panchgavya, Ayurvedic products, and Vedic education.
Impact Delivered: 700+ Gir cows supported; hundreds trained via gurukul model; replicable as a rural livelihood template.
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Solution Provider: RySS (Rythu Sadhikara Samstha) – APCNF
A government-backed Section 8 company implementing the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme, a zero-budget natural farming model based on bio-inoculants, mulching, and crop diversification. It delivers farmer training through community resource persons, supports primary processing of cereals, pulses, millets, and spices, and enables market access via institutional procurement and organic certification.
Impact Delivered: Reached 800,000+ farmers across 26 districts of Andhra Pradesh, delivering 10–30% reductions in cultivation costs, maintained or improved yields for most crops, 600,000+ active practitioners, improved soil health, revival of traditional navadhanya (nine-grain) systems, and reduced farmer debt.
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Solution Provider: Seaviz Agri Tech Pvt. Ltd.
Develops seaweed-based solutions for sustainable agriculture and coastal livelihood diversification by training communities in seaweed cultivation using the ICAR-CMFRI HDPE raft method, establishing drying and pre-processing infrastructure to reduce post-harvest losses, and enabling market linkages for products such as bio-fertilisers, animal feed, and food ingredients.
Impact Delivered: Empowers fisherwomen across the coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu by reducing post-harvest contamination and losses through drying infrastructure, creating alternative livelihoods across the seaweed value chain—from cultivation to processing—and contributing to India’s estimated ₹200+ crore annual seaweed industry potential.
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Solution Provider: Samunnati
India’s largest agri–value chain finance platform enabling climate-smart agriculture by financing solar pumps, micro-irrigation, and processing infrastructure through FPOs and agri-enterprises. It provides long-term and embedded credit bundled with market linkages, using a value-chain finance model that supports aggregation, local processing, and higher-value sales to institutional and modern retail buyers.
Impact Delivered: Around ₹1,000 crore of climate-smart asset funding out of ₹8,624 crore total lending, including solar equipment and micro-irrigation; supports 6,500+ FPOs and 3,500+ enterprises; typical solar micro-irrigation users see ~₹30,000 annual income increase from a ₹63,000 baseline in pilots with partners.
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Integrated agri value chain company established in 2012 providing cold storage and preservation solutions for perishable fruits and vegetables to reduce post-harvest losses (up to 30% in India). Operates scientific cold storage facilities with temperature-controlled environments, along with micro-warehousing model at farm-gate level. Provides collateral management for stored produce enabling access to formal credit, quality testing, preliminary processing (sorting, cleaning, grading), and direct market linkages to processors, retailers, and institutional buyers.
Impact Delivered: 500+ warehouses across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh; significantly reduces post-harvest losses; enables farmers to store F&V and sell at better prices vs distress selling; provides warehouse receipt financing through partner banks; serves thousands of farmers and FPOs with zero-wastage scientific storage
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Solution Provider: Satyukt Analytics Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru-based agri-tech company that uses satellite remote sensing, weather and soil analytics to provide farm-level crop intelligence through its Sat2Farm, Sat4Risk and Sat2Credit platforms. Delivers advisories on crop health, irrigation need, pest/disease risk and yield outlook so farmers and value-chain actors can optimize inputs, reduce risk and improve productivity.
Impact Delivered: Has monitored 4,69,000+ acres across 135+ crops via its platforms; farmers report 10–25% monetary savings per season from better input and water use; satellite insights are up to 60% more accurate than conventional crop-cutting methods and can reduce water use by 10–12% while saving 70% of field visit time.
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Solution Provider: Dr Reddy’s Foundation(DRF)
DRF promotes seaweed cultivation as a climate-smart coastal livelihood, training women and small fishers in farming and organizing them into local nano-entrepreneurs who aggregate harvested seaweed from multiple farmers. These aggregators handle drying, basic cleaning and bulking of seaweed and connect to institutional buyers/processors, improving price realization and reducing individual transaction costs.
Impact Delivered: Creates diversified income streams in coastal communities while supporting a bio-based, low-carbon economy; strengthens women’s participation in seaweed value chains and improves resilience against declining capture fisheries incomes (quantitative nano-entrepreneur numbers not yet published).
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Solution Provider: Industill Farmtech Pvt Ltd
A Pune-based MSME founded in 2018, manufacturing affordable, food-grade SS-304 sugarcane juice machines under the Gaarva brand. It offers turnkey solutions for juice vending—including 3/4/5-roller extraction machines, chillers, peeling machines, soda dispensers, and accessories—enabling micro-entrepreneurs to start businesses with low capital investment (₹95,000–₹3 lakh) and high margins. The single-motor design delivers efficient extraction (700–750 ml/kg) with minimal wastage and supports local manufacturing and entrepreneurship under the Make in India initiative.
Impact Delivered: Enabled hundreds of juice entrepreneurs across Maharashtra and beyond, with machines capable of producing 200–500+ glasses per hour and supporting daily revenues of ₹5,000–15,000. The venture has created manufacturing jobs at its Pune facility (11–50 employees), won the Adhunik Gram Challenge and Social Alpha Quest for Agritech Innovation, and reports annual turnover of ₹1.5–5 crore.
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Solution Provider: Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)/ SURE
SSP (est. 1998) promotes women-led Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) by equipping them with primary processing infrastructure—such as cleaning, grading, and milling for pulses, oilseeds, and millets—and supporting organic certification under ATMA schemes. Its marketing arm, Sakhi Unique Rural Enterprise (SURE), provides market linkages, branded product development, and discounted agri-inputs for FPO members. The model enables FPOs to aggregate and organically process member produce, access institutional and retail markets through SURE, and benefit from interest-free credit and climate-resilient farming training.
Impact Delivered: 7 women-led FPOs promoted across Maharashtra & Kerala with 4,410+ women farmer members; Manjiri Sakhi FPC won FPO Impact Award 2025 for certifying 500 women farmers and bringing 1,000 hectares under organic farming; 72,000+ women empowered through SSP ecosystem; FPO members report 30-40% increase in income through collective processing and marketing
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Solution Provider: StarAgri
India’s largest agri-warehousing provider, operating 2,204+ scientific warehouses across 18 states with over 5 million MT of storage capacity. It follows an asset-light model—leasing ~50% of warehouses through revenue-sharing arrangements—to enable rapid village-level expansion. The platform offers secure post-harvest storage with IoT-enabled real-time monitoring and warehouse receipts that help farmers access credit from 24+ partner banks and NBFCs. It also integrates a digital marketplace, quality testing (Star Labs), procurement, trade facilitation, and value-added services, helping reduce post-harvest losses, prevent distress sales, and improve price discovery.
Impact Delivered: Serves 700,000+ farmers and supports 7,000+ farmer networks (FPOs) across 403 locations in 18 states, with a warehouse owner network that grew 50%+ between 2023 and 2025. The platform enables farmers to unlock working capital through warehouse receipt financing, reduces post-harvest losses, and improves transparency through blockchain-enabled supply chains, AI/ML-driven quality assessment, and predictive analytics.
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Solution Provider: KrishiFin
A Nagpur-based agri-fintech platform (launched November 2023) that facilitates credit for setting up Custom Hiring Centres (CHCs) and financing farm machinery through a digital lending infrastructure. It connects entrepreneurs with 24+ institutional lenders and leverages government subsidy schemes (up to 80%) to enable CHC establishment. Built on an API-ready, cloud-based technology stack with proprietary credit assessment engines, the platform finances tractors, harvesters, tillers, and other equipment that CHCs rent to small and marginal farmers, and also supports Agri Infrastructure Fund (AIF) financing for farm assets and integrated processing projects.
Impact Delivered: Operational since November 2023, the platform has onboarded multiple lending partners and facilitates credit access for rural and semi-urban farmers, who constitute ~85% of the farming community. By enabling the Custom Hiring Centre (CHC) model, it allows smallholders to access farm machinery at nearly one-tenth the ownership cost, reducing mechanisation barriers and supporting the government’s Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM).
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Solution Provider: AFARM (Action for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra)
AFARM implements L&T Financial Services’ flagship Digital Sakhi programme, training rural women as village-level digital service entrepreneurs equipped with tablets and digital content to deliver financial literacy, cashless transaction training, and access to government schemes. Each Digital Sakhi provides door-to-door advisory, conducts village camps, and supports women micro-entrepreneurs—across activities such as goatery, dairy, poultry, and tailoring—to adopt digital payments and basic enterprise practices.
Impact Delivered: The initial pilot across 32 villages in Pune, Solapur, and Osmanabad trained 100 Digital Sakhis, who supported 1,000 women entrepreneurs and sensitised up to 100,000 villagers on digital finance. Subsequent phases expanded to 200 Digital Sakhis serving 60,069 households, significantly improving women’s financial control and confidence in using digital tools.
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Solution Provider: Raheja Solar Food Processing Pvt Ltd
Indore-based social enterprise (founded 2019) manufacturing affordable, DIY-style foldable solar dryers (Sahaj, Samagra models for small-scale; Agraj for large-scale) that enable farmers and collectives to preserve surplus produce (fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers) without electricity or preservatives. Dryers use renewable solar energy with precision airflow design, extending shelf life to 1 year. RSFP provides hands-on training, market linkage support through B2B networks, and connects dried product suppliers to health-conscious food brands and institutional buyers. Featured on Shark Tank India S4.
Impact Delivered: Thousands of farmers impacted across India; reduced post-harvest losses from 20-40% to near-zero; farmers report 2-3x better prices for solar-dried products vs fresh distress sales; empowered FPOs, SHGs, and rural women groups to establish value-added enterprises; case study: 5 tons production target in Malta-Orange tribal belt (Maharashtra); Sahyadri Farms reduced 20% spoilage losses
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DeHaat operates physical last-mile centres branded as “Ek Dukaan, Sampurna Samadhaan” under a FoCo model, where a local micro-entrepreneur owns the outlet while DeHaat manages operations, supply, and technology. Each DeHaat Center serves as a one-stop agri hub offering inputs (seeds, fertilisers, crop protection), AI-enabled crop advisory, soil testing linkages, access to credit and insurance, and market linkages for farm produce—fully integrated with DeHaat’s digital platform.
Impact Delivered: A network of 3,600+ franchised DeHaat Centers serves 1.8 million+ farmers across 12 states, with each centre typically reaching 600–800 farmers within a 3–5 km radius, reducing input costs by up to 15% and improving price realisation through organised output marketing. The model also supports thousands of local micro-entrepreneurs, who earn sustained monthly incomes (often ₹15,000–20,000+) while serving as trusted advisory and service nodes in their communities.
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Solution Provider: NFDB Resource Person
NFDB-certified resource persons deliver short- and long-duration aquaculture skilling programmes (3–28 days) covering community tank management, freshwater and brackishwater aquaculture, RAS, cage culture, feed and seed production, and entrepreneurship. Many trainees go on to establish training-cum-service enterprises or Aqua-Clinics/Aqua-One Centres under NFDB–MANAGE’s Aquaclinic and Aquapreneur Development Programme (ACADP), providing paid training, technical advisory, water and soil testing, and project preparation support to local fish farmers.
Impact Delivered: Typical NFDB HRD programmes train 800+ fishers and farmers annually in a single state (16 batches of 50 participants each). Under ACADP, trained resource persons can access grants of up to ₹10 lakh to establish Aqua-One centres, enabling them to become aquapreneurs and deliver quality advisory and services across multiple villages, improving survival rates, yields, and profitability in smallholder aquaculture.
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Gram Pukar Foundation is a rural entrepreneurship and livelihoods organisation positioning itself as a “catalyst for rural sustainable growth,” working with women, farmers, tribal communities, youth, and social entrepreneurs across rural India. It runs initiatives such as the Gram Pukar Incubation Program and Udyam Workshops, offering skill development, hands-on business training, mentoring, access to funding and technology, and market linkages, while also anchoring craft-based livelihoods like Jeevani – From Gudari to Dignity in tribal Betul, which revives traditional quilt-making and connects products to contemporary markets.
Impact Delivered: Through its incubation and workshop platforms, Gram Pukar supports rural entrepreneurs with training, mentoring, and resource mobilisation to build sustainable livelihoods and self-reliant village economies, inspired by Gandhian principles of Gram Swaraj. Initiatives such as Jeevani are already empowering 30+ tribal women artisans in Betul by transforming traditional Gudari craft into income-generating products, demonstrating a model that combines cultural revival with dignified livelihoods.
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Solution Provider: Scalion Commerce Private Limited
Scalion Commerce Pvt. Ltd. is a Bengaluru-based agritech SaaS company (incorporated June 2023) building digital traceability, compliance, and trade platforms for the agri-food value chain. Its products digitise supply chains from “seed to shelf,” offering farm and warehouse management, QR-code–based product serialisation (including SATHI-compliant seed traceability), anti-counterfeiting solutions, and a global B2B marketplace (Scalion Trade) that connects verified suppliers and buyers while managing logistics, payments, and documentation in a single workflow.
Impact Delivered: By enabling end-to-end traceability and compliance, Scalion supports FPOs and certified organic farmers in proving product authenticity, meeting domestic and export standards, and accessing structured market channels that improve price realisation. For agribusinesses and brands, its platforms reduce counterfeit risks, enhance supply-chain visibility, and build consumer trust in categories such as seeds, honey, A2 ghee, and other value-added products, strengthening both regulatory compliance and market credibility.
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