TheAgrihub – Adding to the Vision of Narendra Modi for Procuring Right Products to Millions of Farmers in India

First Agriculture specific online discovery platform, connecting companies, distributors, retailers & farmers

The Indian Government is working rigorously to enhance the lives of millions of farmers. Aligning to this vision TheAgrihub, worlds 1^st Agriculture specific online discovery platform announced its launch today. TheAgrihub provides authentic product information about best brands in conventional & hi-tech agriculture. The platform connects, companies, distributor’s retailers to cater to the needs of farmers in India.

Announcing the launch of TheAgrihub Founder & CEO, Mr. Rajeeb Kumar Roy who is an industry veteran and responsible for introducing latest technologies in past 22 years in high tech agriculture field said, “Our objective is to bring agricultural products sourcing for B2B & B2C at fingertips, help them track innovations or products and also find suppliers next door to facilitate an educated purchase decisions. If you are in the field of Agriculture, you ought to be on TheAgrihub platform. Need anything? Discover it on TheAgrihub! Is what we as a team wish to promote.”

TheAgrihub has already signed up with 3600+ hi-tech agriculture farmers and many prominent brands like; John Deere, Yara Fertilizers, Tata Rallis, Namdhari Seeds, KF Bioplants, Tafe, New Holland, Known you seeds, Ginegar, Nagarjuna, Multiplex. The types of products listed on TheAgrihub include;

• Seeds & plants of fruits ,flowers and vegetables
• Irrigation products like; Drip irrigation, boom irrigation, pumps &high pressure fogging
• Fertilizers and plant protection products like; Organic fertilizers, Bio fertilizers, chemical fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides & herbicides
• Farm tools and equipment like; Tractor, sprayers, harvesting machines, soil testing equipment etc
• Hi tech agriculture like; Polyhouse , net house, hydroponics and mulching films and allied products
• And many more to come

Sidharth Kumar, Co-Founder, TheAgrihub who is a finance specialist and has huge global exposure working in various parts of the globe has said during the launch, “Technology is changing the face of Indian agriculture and helping farmers to gain more and more profits from their farms. We want TheAgrihub to be front runner in that.”

Abhishek Bhatt Co-Founder, TheAgrihub, who has been farmer himself, adds, “One of the leading causes of inefficiency in farming is the lack of proper knowledge & access to correct resources. We as a urban customer has options where we can select things we need from five various platforms, and farmers who feeds the world doesn’t have a single site where they can get authentic information. That’s why TheAgrihub has a vision to expose its users to best of the global technologies enabling growth of farmer as well as agriculture industry as a whole.”

TheAgrihub envisions in becoming the world’s biggest agricultural marketplace by 2020 and become the provider that people fanatically seek for discovering, buying & selling purposes of agriculture inputs. Their unswerving mission is to simplify the lives of farmers and provide them a more connected world in agriculture. Basically, bringing agriculture to finger tips.

Industry Trends:

Agriculture is vital to the world’s economy, that is growing at more than 7% and contribution of agriculture being 17% to the GDP, the scenario of agriculture is making a shift in India. Emerging trends in the Indian agriculture is leading towards diversification which is opening up prospects for Horticulture, Floriculture etc. The government policies of liberalization and globalization have opened up new avenues for the modernization of agriculture.

The Indian Government is working rigorously to enhance the lives of millions of farmers from day one. Even though corporate and start ups are working on farm to market products, the introduction of agri. market platform by the government will make the entire ecosystem of trade very effective.

The Indian government has cleared INR 200 crore for setting up an online agriculture market place to integrate hundreds of mandis across India to give farmers better access to market prices for their produce. The younger generation today is leaving their desk jobs to get into farming and making an impact by introducing technology to the field. The conventional supply chain stretches from input dealers to farmers to aggregators, wholesalers, and retailers, has seen a new trend in past 6-7 years; namely, the entry of major corporate firms and start ups. These players are entering at the front end in organized food processing and retailing, as well as at the back end as input service and hence completing the loop for farmers.