1. Sowing Prosperity: Boosting agricultural productivitySowing Prosperity: Boosting agricultural productivitySowing Prosperity: Boosting agricultural productivitySowing Prosperity: Boosting agricultural productivity
Team Name: AgriBharat
Team Members:
Puneet Mishra
Anuraag Pandey
Jitesh Damani
Souraj Misra
Ankit Agrawal

2. Problem Statement :Problem Statement :Problem Statement :Problem Statement :
SOWING PROSPERITY : Boosting agricultural productivitySOWING PROSPERITY : Boosting agricultural productivitySOWING PROSPERITY : Boosting agricultural productivitySOWING PROSPERITY : Boosting agricultural productivity
Why :
1. To mitigate effects of problems like disguised unemployment and emerging population
* India currently uses its more than 60 % of man-power to just produce 15% of GDP.
(America have only 2% of people involved in this sector who are producing about 60% of total Indian production.)
2. To make village children free from labour in fields and give them opportunity to grow their
intellect in developmental stages (6-20 years age)
* Around 70% of child labour is in Agriculture sector all over India. If we can solve this problem, we are going to make a
huge profitable investment and a great deed of human welfare.
3. To improve condition of female and old farmers, who are working on fields in conditions.
* In this way, we can provide our elders respectful old days and safe future, by paying them more because of
increased production.

3. Causes of deficiencies in Agricultural production:
1. Small farmlands
2. Older and conventional methods of farming
3. Unaware of market trends and pricing
4. Storage problems (lack of cold storages)
5. Transportation of commodities
* If somehow we can address these problems seriously, we are surely going to double our production on
average. This would give us about 300 billion dollars per year [ 1,800,000 crores rs. per year, which is 14
times more than total budget allocated for Food security bill ]
- Here, Agriculture, includes cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, fiber, bio fuel,
drugs and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.
• Currently India accounts for only 2% of agricultural exports in the world.
• Most developed countries grow on average 3-6 times more than Indians in their farms, so our aim to
at least double our production is not a just an exaggeration.

4. Solution to the problem:
As the problem statement is very wide and need a very large scale of implementation, we
have to first think of solution, which is more practical and which secures the large term
investment.
Hence, we devised a plan, which would be able to increase the production.
Key terms of solution :
1. Get large farms on lease.
2. Use advanced hybrid seeds and machinery.
Storage is also an important point to be taken care of.

5. Implementation of solution:
For confirming the feasibility of solution, we will do following steps :
- We will choose 10 zones across the country, each zone having 10000 acres land
(These zones will help identification of crop distribution in order to
maximize growth potential)
- Each zone will have a team that will ensure the proper functioning of that zone
- Each zonal headquarter will comprise of 5 sub-divisions, which will perform the
ground-work

6. Zonal
Headquarter
Technical Team:
Agricultural scientists and interns to ensure
usage of best seeds, fertilizers etc.
Land management and farmer welfare Team:
Responsible for procuring land, and reaching out
to farmers regarding incentives
Farm supervision team:
For recruiting farmers, obtaining machinery, GM
seeds, and looking after farm work
Market assessment team:
To estimate market potential and scope of
growth for particular crops

7. • Machinery Cost – INR 5 crore/year
• Power and fuel – INR 50 lac/year
• Seed cost – INR 50 lac/year
Technological
Investment
• 300 workers * INR 8,000/month/worker * 12 months = INR
3crore/year (approx.)Workers’ Wage
• 40 members * INR 30,000/month/member * 12 months = INR 1.4
crore/year
Market evaluation
Team
• INR 50 lac/year as an initial cost
Land Management
Team
• INR 5 crore/year
Farmer Welfare
Division
Financial Estimate (for a zone of area 10,000 acre)

8. Financial Estimate (contd.)
• Total Cost = INR 16 crore/year (initially)
INR 11 crore/year (after being well-established)
• Total Estimated Production = INR 1,00,000/acre * 10,000 acre
= INR 100 crores
• Compensation to land owners = INR 60 crores
• Net financial profit = INR (100 – 60 –11 ) crores
= INR 29 crores

9. Productivity
• Increasing
Productions up to
150%
• Large Areas can be
managed in one go
• Human and animal
agricultural
operations can not
be achieved with
power to machine
power
• Estimated 10%
possible growth in
GDP
Social
• About 70% of the
child labor in India is
being Employed in
the fields
• The scheme of mass
mechanize we
propose would help
drastically to
eradicate this .
• Improved and
better working
conditions of
farmers
Economic
• Identification Of
Disguised
Unemployment and
its reduction
• The use of
machinery
decreased the cost
of production and
due to this income
of the farmer
increases. It also
improves the quality
of production.
• Opportunity For
Entrepreneurship
Impact Of The Proposed Solution

10. Probable Hurdles
• Land procurement – convincing of agriculturists to lend their lands
• Irrigation facilities – depending on the geographic conditions
• Economic fluctuations – volatility of prices in the market

11. References:
• Child Labour Data from ‘World Data Bank’ and NSSO Estimates
• www.indiaagristat.com
• “Rapid Growth of Select Asian economies” – Food and Agricultural
Organization of United Nations