To provide the farmer with a package of inputs and services for optimum utilization of balanced primary nutrients; plant protection chemicals; water; seeds; post-harvest services; and to develop a genuine partnership with the farm.
To provide the farmer with a package of inputs and services for optimum utilization of balanced primary nutrients; plant protection chemicals; water; seeds; post-harvest services; and to develop a genuine partnership with the farm.
The Tata Kisan Sansar (TKS), set up by private company Tata Chemicals, are a network of farmer centres that provide extension services to help farmers and cultivators in North India. The TKS aims to be a one-stop resource centre, offering a wide range of agricultural services, products, information, and training. The centres particularly aim to facilitate access to technology and information for precision farming.
FPO Business Accelerator Centre- Indore
Course content for Agripreneurs Program in Agri-Business Management
The course is primarily targeted to any graduates who have basic knowledge of agriculture, though this may not be a pre-requisite. The course aims at equipping them with theoretical and practical knowledge on different aspects of agri-business including policy framework, laws, rules and regulations, business potential for an array of agri-businesses, banking interface, and a range of agri-business operations. All students would also acquire basic knowledge of important aspects of corporate and other laws, basic accounting, good communication skills, and elementary aspects of HR management as compulsory subjects. Practical training with EFASAL team at HQ and field level for all modules in every week, in which two days classes and three days practical training
The "Contract Farming Resource Centre" has been established to offer a "one-stop" site, where information on contract farming is freely made available. Interest in contract farming as a mechanism to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness firms has grown recently, in view of the international trends towards tighter alignment in agrifood supply chains. FAO has been responding to the growing demand for information and technical support on planning and implementing contract farming operations.
http://www.fao.org/in-action/contract-farming/en/
The Tata Kisan Sansar (TKS), set up by private company Tata Chemicals, are a network of farmer centres that provide extension services to help farmers and cultivators in North India. The TKS aims to be a one-stop resource centre, offering a wide range of agricultural services, products, information, and training. The centres particularly aim to facilitate access to technology and information for precision farming.
FPO Business Accelerator Centre- Indore
Course content for Agripreneurs Program in Agri-Business Management
The course is primarily targeted to any graduates who have basic knowledge of agriculture, though this may not be a pre-requisite. The course aims at equipping them with theoretical and practical knowledge on different aspects of agri-business including policy framework, laws, rules and regulations, business potential for an array of agri-businesses, banking interface, and a range of agri-business operations. All students would also acquire basic knowledge of important aspects of corporate and other laws, basic accounting, good communication skills, and elementary aspects of HR management as compulsory subjects. Practical training with EFASAL team at HQ and field level for all modules in every week, in which two days classes and three days practical training
The "Contract Farming Resource Centre" has been established to offer a "one-stop" site, where information on contract farming is freely made available. Interest in contract farming as a mechanism to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness firms has grown recently, in view of the international trends towards tighter alignment in agrifood supply chains. FAO has been responding to the growing demand for information and technical support on planning and implementing contract farming operations.
http://www.fao.org/in-action/contract-farming/en/
12th plan hackathon in agriculture and rural developmentkapil kumar sharma
Search for alternatives in agriculture in the present scenario of globalisation and changing climatic conditions.working for urban roof top agriculture will also help in reducing load on land. this will help farmers to grow crops needed for staple food production and production of oil crops
This presentation was made at a training workshop on Integrated Potato Crop Management organized by the International Potato Center (CIP) for Innovation Platform (IP) members of Kadahenda, Rwanda.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agricultural Development, Government of Nepal, and Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), and Federation of the Nepal Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI), organized a two day workshop on ‘Best Practices in Contract Farming: Challenges and Opportunities in Nepal’ on 10-11 February 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Participants of GIFT’s second open programme in 2009 spent eight days working on site with the Pohan Farmer’s Association (PFA) in order to develop a plan for the association to convert from conventional to organic cotton production and access new markets for their products. Cotton is among the dirtiest crops, using about 25 per cent of the world’s insecticides and 10 per cent of the world’s pesticides. Organic cotton production has the advantage of promoting soil fertility, and also allows for diverse agriculture while keeping human contact with toxic chemicals to a minimum. The briefing note also discusses the challenges facing rural farmers in China, such as environmental deterioration and inefficiencies of small scale farming.
Chairman’s Presentation at Indian Seed Congress
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TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
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2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
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It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
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When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
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Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
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Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
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The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
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Search Engine Marketing - Competitor and Keyword researchETMARK ACADEMY
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Some keywords are searched more often than others. Number of times a keyword is searched
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new and small blogs, whereas the latter keyword doesn’t have that much competition. This
search competition for a keyword is called search difficulty of a keyword or keyword
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Some keywords are searched for, just to know or to learn some information about something,
that’s their search intention. For example, “What shoe size should I choose?” or “How to pick
the right shoe size?”
These keywords which are searched just to know about stuff are called informational
keywords. Typically people who are searching this type of keywords are top of a Conversion
funnel.
Conversion funnel is the journey that search visitors go through on their way to an email
subscription or a premium subscription to the services you offer or a purchase of products
you sell or recommend using your referral link.
For some buyers, research is the most important part when they have to buy a product.
Depending on that, their journey either widens or narrows down. These types of buyers are
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Conversion is the action you want from your search visitors. Number of conversions that you
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People who are at different stages of a conversion funnel use different types of keywords.
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2. Introduction
• PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient foods and beverages, with 2006
revenues of more than USD 35.1 billion and 168,000 employees.
• PepsiCo India Snacks (Frito Lays) is one of the largest convenient foods
company in India. Entered in India in 1989
• Today PepsiCo India has 3 state of the art snack food plants in India
• PepsiCo beverages and snack operations directly employ more than 4600
people in India and indirectly 60,000
• PepsiCo partners with the different state governments to provide access to the
latest varieties and agronomic practices for the farming community in
multiple crops across the country
3. PepsiCo Snacks has three World Class
Food Processing Plants
Established in 1989
North
Region
Channo
Started in
October 2004
Kolkata
Established in 2001 East
Regiion
Pune
West &
South
Region
2700 Kms
2800
Kms
4. PepsiCo in India has a legacy of
supporting agriculture
and PAIC to cooperatively develop a comprehensive
Punjab farmers
contract farming and created backward & forward
storage, agronomy to increase farm productivity
Paddy & Barley
• Started with Investment and partnership with PAU
agro-technology program and crop solutions to
• Partnership with state governments; have pioneered
linkages for process grade potatoes
• Made investments in R&D in varietal introductions,
• PepsiCo India is focusing on Potato, Citrus, Corn,
6. India is the 3rd largest producer
of Potato in the world
Potato Production (000 Tonnes)
70300
32,000
25000 21500
11500
China Russia India USA Poland
Year 2005
Source : Karvycomtrade (FAO Data)
7. Vicious cycle –
Conservative Farmers
Low investment
Minimize inputs vs. Maximize output
Limited choice
Role of the
Corporates
and,
government
for step jump
Low Earning Low Realization
Quality / Productivity
No Market Orientation
Meet customer Quality Expectations
Pay for performance
9. Contract Farming :
Growing Partnership with Farmers
All India
Qty Under contract (TON)
No. of Farmers
11000
57894
800
125
2001 2003 2005 2007
• Quantity under our Contact farming program has grown
almost five times since 2003
2002 2003 2004 2005 2007
Area Under contract (Acre)
•No of farmers directly benefited from our initiatives has
jumped from 800 in 2003 to almost 11000 in 2007 and
acreages from 2000 to 11000
10900
• Pepsico’s contract farmers have been getting significant
benefits over other farmers because of insurance, banks,
blight control packages and attractive buy back prices
2001 2003 2005 2007
6250
800 2000
31668
56%
17802
38%
11102
23%
2920
9% 22%
5500
10. PepsiCo – overcoming market challenges
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A SUSTAINABLE CONTRACT FARMING PROGRAMME
Land preparation & planting,crop monitoring
during growing period harvesting & procurement,
transportation logistics prompt farmer payment system
Commercialization
The extension services team
-selection and training Farmer education program Field
trials at farmer fields
-multi-locational & crop timing
Technology Transfer
Evaluation of promising varieties and hybrids
Multi locational trials and short-listing - selection Blueprint
for agriculturalpractices after adapting to localconditions,to
suit intellectual & financial means of the farmer
Evaluation of farmer economics
model,Demonstration,farming
R & D Activities
11. Frito-Lay attempting to provide a win-win market
linked self sustaining contact farming model
Agri
Companie
s
Quality based fixed buyback
„Pay for Performance‟ systems to drive
quality and continuous supply
Program
support
Insurance
Govt
Locally evolved
Farmer’s Organization
Directly with the
Farmer
Farmer FRITOLAY
Banks
Seed
Companie
s
Input
Companie
s Provide technical support and extension
services for chip grade farm practices.
Advantaged
Seed
3P
Services
“Partners in Progress” Model
12. Align Indian agronomy to the industry
needs…
Increase Farmer awareness about
consumer requirements.
Ware
Potato
Chilled
product
French
Fries
Potato
crisps
Quality Trait
Flakes
Boiling Type
Bruise resistance
Coulour of Flesh
Dry matter content
Frying colour
Shape of Tuber
Size
Store-ability
The needs of both modern potato
processors and export markets are
often very specific with regard to the
variety, tuber size, skin colour and flesh
colour.
Source :Rabobank International
Processors generally require a
consistent supply of high quality tubers
13. Challenges in Pre & Post Harvest
Technology in Potato ….
Seed
Management
Planting Bed
Management
Maturity
Management
Pre
Harvest
Management
Sampling & Lab
Test
Truck
Loading
Storage
Post
Harvest
Management
14. 21
Planting Bed Management
• Farm infrastructure to be improved for better field practices
and land Preparation
• Financial institutions/Banks for easy and cheap credit
• Develop irrigation systems
• Uninterrupted & Best Quality Fertilizer & pesticides
15. Simple Solutions : High Impact…
Improving the geometry has a significant impact on the Potato Size and Quality
Traditional Geometry
Row to Row Spacing :18 inches
Plant to Plant Spacing : 4 inches
Improved Geometry
Row to Row Spacing :26 inches
Plant to Plant Spacing: 8 inches
16. Irrigation : Shift from Traditional „Jhapta‟ irrigation to a simple flood irrigation method
Traditional Improved
Simple Solutions : High Impact…
17. Low grade automation in harvesting can
minimise the losses
Traditional form of earthing up using spades Simple power tiller can significantly improve
doesn‟t provide adequate soil cover the quality of ridges and soil cover
18. Traditional form of harvesting results in higher
mechanical damage to the Potato and lower
efficiency
Simple drum harvesters can improve
efficiency and reduce damages.
Low grade automation in harvesting can
minimise the losses
19. Inspection Sampling
Acceptance or Rejection based on Quality
Parameters
• Sampling Protocols
• Initial Inspection of samples
• Quality checking using potato receivables protocols
and sampling methods
• Pre Harvest & Post Harvest Cook Test
Infrastructural Investments
.. in Sampling Technologies
.. Quality Analysis & Testing lab
… Lab Equipments
…. Qualified Lab Technicians
20. Holistic approach to program development
with a national footprint
Supply Chain efficiency.
Improving Farm productivity
Leveraging the traditional Vendors
system.
Village level Labs
Region specific / Advantaged
Technology
Productivity levels at par with World – 20t/h
Focus on Farmer economics
Strengthening the social fabric
Unique Insurance
Tie with input companies for timely
availability at discounted rates.
Awareness and Empowerment
Education program (HIV / AIDS)
Women empowerment