This virtual conference also aims to highlight the government’s subsidies and other incentives to promote agriculture in rural areas.
Agri logistics, which facilitates connectivity between production and consumption centres over both geography and time with little quality and quantity loss, is the backbone of agribusiness. The issue of food waste is central to India’s efforts to improve food security. While the emphasis has been on increasing output, food supply chain losses have been largely ignored until recently.
This virtual conference also aims to highlight the subsidies various incentives provided by the government to promote agriculture in rural areas. The ASSOCHAM’s Virtual Conference will also provide an excellent platform for entrepreneurs to exchange technological ideas and foster business development.
Objectives
- To concentrate on the most recent technological advancements in the Agri logistics sector, and to act as drivers/stimulators in the development of our country’s agricultural economy.
- To highlight the difficulties that farmers face in post-production Agri logistics.
- To assist stakeholders in providing better infrastructure facilities to farmers, such as warehousing/porting/SEZs in Agri logistics.
- To educate the industry on various welfare schemes offered by the Central State Government and other financial institutions in order to strengthen Agri logistics and the agricultural sector as a whole.
- Promoting the export market through quality management, packaging, labelling, and marketing, as well as brand development.
- Interactions and deliberations on industry status issues, emerging trends, technologies, innovations, best practises, case studies, financial aspects, state and central policies, incentives and support availability, global markets and challenges, export competitiveness, food security, and quality issues.
- Entrepreneurs, banks, financial institutions, and venture capitalists are all interested in investing.
- Through a dialogue process, enumerate policy recommendations for the state and federal governments.
- Serve as a guide for stakeholders, encouraging them to compete and capture the global market.