Krishan Rautela

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Krishan Singh Rautela is working as Associate Project Officer in the Agriculture and Natural Resources team of ADB’s India Resident Mission. He is working on agriculture value chain development, farmer producer organizations, digital agriculture, climate change, coastal protection, irrigation and public-private partnership initiatives of ADB.

He has more than 20 years of multi-disciplinary & multi-sector experience both in the private and public sector in various roles including as an entrepreneur and consultant to government and international organizations.

AgTech Marketplace: Promising Technologies to Help Improve Farmer Producer Organizations' Market Access

To increase the farming income of smallholder farmers and minimize food waste in horticulture value chains, ADB assisted the state governments in Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh, farmer producer organizations (FPOs), and their value chain partners under horticulture value chain development projects. AgTech solutions have the potential to improve the capacity of FPOs to become professional crop suppliers in commercial agribusiness value chains.

Vaibhav Tidke

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Vaibhav is the CEO and co-founder at S4S Technologies, India. With a background of a Ph.D. in agri-food processing and management training at IIM-A, he started S4S as a full-stack food processing company. S4S manufactures and sells food ingredients to FMCG and the foodservice industry. The S4S supply chain is based on village-level procurement and food processing platforms run by women entrepreneurs. The supply chain creates a win-win for farmers, women entrepreneurs, and B2B food customers.

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