The fourth session at the inaugural edition of AgroChem Summit 2023, organized by the Indian Chemical News (ICN) on February 24, 2023 at The Park Hotel in New Delhi will witness India’s leading industry experts share their thoughts on the roadmap towards a bigger and better agrochemicals sector by 2030.

The deliberations at the session titled, ‘Agrochemicals 2030: The Future Perfect’ are aimed at strengthening the existing capacities and capabilities within the sector. It will discuss scenarios around all the aspects including policy parameters, agricultural practices and new-age technologies.

To attend the deliberations, one can register as a delegate by clicking on the link (https://www.indianchemicalnews.com/agrochem-summit-2023/register.php ).

The panelists include Dr. Vishal Choudhary, Deputy Industrial Advisor, DCPC, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers; Hemendra Mathur, Co-founder, ThinkAg; Avinash Nayak, Principal, Kearney; Romil Ravi, Senior Investment Specialist, Invest India and Dr Rafi Shaik, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Carbanio.com.

The session will be moderated by Burjis N. Godrej, Executive Director, Godrej Agrovet.

The topics to be covered under the session are: Need for a New Chemical Policy; Regulatory Framework and its impact; Accelerating Production Capacity in India; Alternative Crop Protection Techniques; Developing Extensive R&D Capabilities for Agrochemicals; Implementing Integrated Pest management; Digitalization Roadmap for Agrochemicals; and Bio-Pesticides.

As predicted by latest knowledge reports, India has the potential to become “The Global Manufacturing Hub” for agrochemicals due to a number of favourable factors such as low manufacturing cost driven by availability of labor and tax benefits, technically trained manpower, under utilised production capacity, seasonal domestic demand, and low usage etc. There is a huge domestic market for growth and equally promising are the opportunities in the agrochemicals export space.

The Summit themed as "Making India A Manufacturing Hub" has lined up the country’s top agrochemical industry experts.  The inaugural edition aims to bring all stakeholders of the agrochemicals sector under one platform to brainstorm on the growth opportunities, safe and judicious use of agrochemicals by farmers, and current issues to draw a roadmap for the future direction of the Indian agrochemicals sector.

The brainstorming by the experts at well attended sessions is expected to help curate a comprehensive review of the Agrochemical sector, understanding the challenges as well as the opportunity that the segment offers. It also aims to develop a synthesis of ideas on policy initiatives and support, long and medium term action for the sector from within and outside in order to bring momentum and catalyze an action plan that is the need of the hour.

The Summit is supported by Platinum Partner - UPL; Gold Partners - Godrej Agrovet, BASF, FMC, Dassault Systemes Solize, Carbanio, and Auxilife (a unit of GPC); and Associate Partner - Resistotech and Super Scientific Works. The event is supported by Industry Association Partners - PMFAI (Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of India), Croplife India, ACFI (Agro Chem Federation of India), and CCFI (Crop Care Federation of India).