Conference Background
The AgriTech ecosystem has attracted a surge of startups in India offering technology-based solutions like offtake marketplaces, storage and transportation services, and agronomy advisory services while large traditional players seek to reduce operational costs and manage scale more efficiently. India’s Budget 2022-23 also contains provisions to support ‘digital agriculture’. Developments in AgriTech are hugely relevant to India’s economy. Its agriculture sector, which is worth US$370 billion, continues to remain the main source of livelihood for over 40 percent of the population and contributes 19.9 percent (FY 2021) to the national GDP
