Ayon Hazra

Ayon has 16+ years of experience in business consulting having worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Oracle, Ericsson, and Cognization building transparency in business processes, optimizing supply chains and elevating customer experience journeys in diverse value chains. At BWS, he is responsible for building strategy, generating revenue streams, and leading the customer acquisition process globally. He is passionate about building social enterprises with a sustainable revenue model and technology-enabled impact at the bottom of the pyramid.

Nitin Goel

Nitin Goel is the co-founder at Inficold. Nitin obtained his BTech from IIT Bombay and PhD from Univ. of Florida in Mechanical Engineering. He has 15 years of experience in solar energy and refrigeration. He has 10 patents. He has earlier worked at Intel Corporation, SunBorne Energy and Sheetak. He has also closely worked with the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy as one of the technical core members of solar research committees.

Vijay Anand

Vijay is the Chief Business Officer of Greenpod Labs which uses nanotechnology to extend the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables. 

GreenPod Labs is a post-harvest solutions company committed to minimise food waste. The company has built a 100% natural, cost effective solution to extend shelf life of fruits and vegetables at ambient temperature. Vijay is the Chief Business Officer with 14+ years of experience across industries like IT, Banking, education.

 

Krishan Rautela

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

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.