The document discusses the prospects and challenges of the agricultural supply chain in India. It outlines problems in the current supply chain such as poor infrastructure, lack of adequate warehousing and cold storage facilities, and access to finance for farmers. It then discusses opportunities to improve the supply chain through public-private partnerships for warehousing, expanding cold storage, strengthening information systems, and enabling farmers. The document also compares food supply chains to more sustainable value chains and provides case studies of different models linking farmers to markets.

1. AGRI SUPPLY CHAIN :
PROSPECTS & CHALLENGES
Divya Chhabra
GBPUA&T,
Pantnagar

2. LAYOUT OF PRESENTATION
• Background
• Introduction
• Problems in supply chain
• Prospects in supply chain
• Comparison of food supply and food value chain
• Case study
• Government initiatives

3. BACKGROUND

4. AGRI SUPPLY CHAIN
• SCM implies managing the relationships between the businesses
responsible for the efficient production and supply of agribusiness
products from farm level to consumers, to reliably meet consumers’
requirements in terms of quantity, quality and price.

6. INEFFICIENT AGRI SUPPLY CHAIN
Post harvest Losses
Plate food wastage
Hunger
Farmer’s value realization

7. PROBLEMS IN INDIAN AGRI SUPPLY CHAIN

8. PROBLEMS
• Poor Infrastructure
• Underexposure of Organized Logistics
• Absence of Adequate Warehouses
Sheltered Warehouse
Cold Storage Facility
• Access to finance
• Market access
• Lack of system integration

9. PROSPECTS IN SUPPLY CHAIN
• Encouraging 3PL (Third Party Logistics) Players
• Warehousing with Private-Public Partnership
• Increasing the Cold Storage Facility
• Enabling the Farmer – The Coco Cola Way
• Strengthening the Information system
• Government policies
• Skill /Training Institutions

10. FOOD SUPPLY AND FOOD VALUE CHAIN

11. COMPARISON

12. CHANGING SUPPLY CHAIN

13. SUSTAINABLE VALUE CHAIN

14. CASE STUDY OF VARIOUS FARMER’S
LINKAGES
• SABMiller in Rajasthan
• Contract farming in maize by Suguna poultry
• SAFAL – fruits and vegetable growers’ association
• Mahagrapes
• ICRISAT
• Rythu Bazaar
• Apni Mandi – Farmer’s market in Punjab