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Every great achievement deserves a spotlight, and the ABSA Agri Awards 2025 is where your impact meets recognition. Whether you’re an agripreneur, innovator, or enabler, this is your platform to rise above the noise and be seen.
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Extraordinary women in agriculture in the fields, research, education, start ups, investments, corporates, administration, policy making, careers etc. who are trendsetters and are contributing to Indian Agriculture
- From 55%, the labour availability in agriculture is expected to go down to 41% of the total workforce.
- Selective mechanization & advanced Agri Implements is essential to increase agricultural productivity
- Companies Researching and Manufacturing, location-specific, crop-specific and operation-specific improved Agri implements and farm mechanisation tools like improved hand tools, implements and machines for various farm operations.
- As agri chain is getting professionalized like rest of the industries, management education plays critical role in sharpening the management practices through process, strategy and delivery
- Institutions who have infra structure to impart decisive leadership skills
- Institutions whose alumni are contributing to the welfare of farming
- Institutions who have dedicated courses / Executive development programs on agri / rural sector can apply
- PGPR that increases the crop yield
- Solves abiotic challenges of the crops
- Helps farm produce to be better than existing output in terms of produce quality and higher yield out put
- A company which is overall appreciated by all stakeholders
- It gives an entire range of agrochemicals
- Has immense brand pull
- Works closely with the research and development community
- Educates farmer with good application practices
- Serves farming community with utmost solutions
- Has pan India presence
- A company that has either spent money on better farming practices awareness, or any other initiative that has benefitted farmers in particular or society at large in specially rural areas.
- Company or group that has helped farming community in education of safe and right use of pesticides
- Companies that have leveraged the digital space by offering simple and easy to use tools to the farmers, distribution channel
Award for the Best Drone Company/Individual is open to a range of individuals and companies who are championing the positive drone use in Agriculture.
A company which is:
- A Drone specialist transforming Agriculture
- Has pure innovation and groundbreaking technology to solve & Support Agriculture
- Startups using drone technology for creative solutions in agriculture,
- and large corporations driving innovation.
- A company which has been able to take the business to a scalable height in less than 5 years
- A company which has displayed great potential to become successful players in local and international marketplace.
- A company that might have raised from their current position by restructuring and turning around their businesses.
- A research-based company
- Molecule launched could be a standalone chemical formulation or a combination formulation
- Has formal CIB registration
- Has solved at least one difficult challenge in farmers crops
India has attracted a large network of farmers who are smart, savvy and have learnt & demonstrated the art of growing market driven crops.
These farmers serve the world of consumers from domestic to internationals. They update themselves with the latest cultivation practices, use advanced varieties of crops and technologies for better productivity and run the farming in a corporate style
Distributors are the life line between the company and the farmers. Great distribution plays a critical role in making a product accessible to the farmers and making it big or losing its importance.
Distributors with over Rs 50 Crores turnover are eligible to nominate.
The agri business is swiftly growing with the dedication and involvement of next generation entrepreneurs.
Young leaders less than 40 years involved in farming, distribution, dealership, manufacturing, trading are eligible to nominate
An Indian origin global leader and change-makers who has contributed to agriculture in India and internationally.
- Each government has the biggest mandate to ensure food security to feed the growing population
- Government that helps farming in totality has succeeded in a better way
- Government machinery is the fastest and the largest that can make things happen
- Government policies effect the regional, global, climatic and marketing linkages
- A leader who seared company not in growth but offered all round strategic guidance to the company
- His / her role played critical in growing in challenging times by maintaining highest integrity
- A company that has remarkably addressed / solved the problem by offering innovative, integrated solution
- Used tools of different media
- Campaign that turned a business success
- Investments made were well encashed and will be delivered for a long time to come
- A company that has strived hard to educate stake holders in popularising Nutrients
- A company that has brought in novel nutrients that meet the crop nutrient hunger and has solved nutrient deficiency
- Has helped farmers to increase the output because of their nutrient usage
- Cost effective
- A company which has brought in new and innovative technology seeds to the farmers with higher yields and other factors that help farmer to cultivate effectively
- It gives farmer higher price when marketed
- Has immense brand pull
- Educates farmer with good package of practices for crop cultivation
- Serves farming community with utmost solutions
- A company which has brought in new and innovative technology seeds to the farmers with higher yields and other factors that help farmer to cultivate effectively
- It gives farmer higher price when marketed
- Has immense brand pull
- Educates farmer with good package of practices for crop cultivation
- Serves farming community with utmost solutions
- Co-Operative societies / NGO / FPO hand hold farmers by interventions that help farmers grow more with better farm practices
- They make farmers self-reliant
- Work on Lab to Land programs
- Develop and deliver projects that are funded from across the Globe
- A company not more than 5 years old and has made a mark by offering better crop solutions
- Has presence in more than at least five states
- Has plans to grow multi fold in next 3-5 years
- A crop solution company having a break taking offering for crops
- Solution could be from digital space, plant protection of Plant health i.e. PGPRs
- FPO (Farmer Producer Organisations) that have overcome various challenges, to successfully build self-sustaining businesses
- FPO’s that have contributed meaningfully to the member community.
- FPO-promoting institutions who have worked to enable the ecosystems, influence policy
- FPO promotes sustainable and scalable models and incubates innovative solutions for the growth of farmers
MSMEs are the backbone of the agri inputs industry. They are having strong Research & Development, innovative products & solutions.
MSMEs not only export, manufacture and distribute but also custom make to the large marketing companies.
The world is moving towards third party partnerships. Toll manufacturers play a significant role in contributing to the complete supply chain management from formulations, packaging to distribution to the larger companies.
Toll manufacturers with own infra structure and serving the agri inputs industry are eligible to nominate.
As the business is growing, infrastructure in handling and serving the last mile connections in timely and safe delivery are critical to agri inputs business.
C & F agents with own infrastructure and serving the companies are eligible to nominate.
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What Our Winners Says
Jack Ferguson
Rachel Ballinger
Johannes Times
Johannes Times
Jack Ferguson
Rachel Ballinger
Our Amazing & learned Guest of Honour
Saurabh Agarwal
Founder Growit
Venkatesh Devanur
CMD Agrilife Group
Dinesh Singh
Reliance Industries Fertilizers Division
Prashant Belgamwar
Advanta Seeds
Mohan Babu
COO Bayer Crop Science India , Bangladesh and Srilanka
Raju Kapoor
Director-Public and Industry Affairs
Madhulika Shukla
IFFCO e Bazar
Kalyani Narayanan
T Stanes
Debabrata Sarkar
President - Asia Pacific Alga Energy
