LAGATAR24 NETWORK
New Delhi, Nov 2: Kissanpro won the ‘Agritech startup for Industry partnership’ award in the 5th edition of the prestigious ‘FICCI Summit and Awards for Agri Startups’.The award ceremony was held in Federation house, New Delhi and winners were felicitated by Kailash Choudhary the Minister of State, Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, along with various FICCI, Govt and Industry delegates.
During the event Kailash Choudhary, Minister of State, Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, complemented the work done by all agritech startups and congratulated all winners, He also discussed the growing agritech startups ecosystem in India and how we can become the world leaders and world suppliers across key crop categories, he stressed upon need of growing Millets production and demand both and how startups can work together with government in achieving the desired objective.
Under the Vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to boost and support Indian agritech startups he discussed about setting up a separate division for startups within agriculture ministry and there would a joint secretary dedicated to agritech startups .To support further he mentioned a 500 crore acceleration fund for agritech startups.
Notably, with objective to sensitize, motivate and address the issues that Agri startups face, so that they innovatively solve the problems faced by the Indian and global agriculture across the value chain, FICCI is organizing 5th edition of “FICCI Summit and Awards for Agri Startups” on 1-2 November 2022.
During the 5th edition, FICCI once again aims to accentuate the innovations taking place specifically in the agriculture sector and felicitate awards to the start-ups for their impactful innovations. The best Agri Startup among the selected ones got felicitated with awards and acknowledged at FICCI’s Agri Startup Summit on 2nd November 2022 which was one of the most awaited congregations of leadership from Government and Industry. PwC is the knowledge partner in the initiative.
About Kissanpro :
KissanPro started its journey in 2020 with the mission of adding efficiency at every stage of agriculture with help of data science, the right processes, tools, and technology, thus reducing the overall cost of production, growing per acre productivity and making the best and nearest direct market available for farmers to get the best price for farmer and buyers both and also reduce post-harvest losses.
While it provides a full stack solution to farmers/ FPOs , its prime work area amongst all is setting up a very efficient Farm to factory/ Farm to the retail model of the supply chain.
Currently, it serves all leading brands of India across the crop categories, to name Reliance, Swiggy, Big Basket, Metro Cash and Carry, and Blinkit are amongst some of the leading retail/ Quick commerce companies, and KRBL, LT foods, Suguna Foods along with various local and regional brands are amongst some of leading food processing companies its serving on pure farm to retail/ farm to factory model.
