Indian Chemical News (ICN) is organizing its next E-conference on "Making India a Global Agrochemical Manufacturing Hub" on 22nd December from 3:00 - 4:30 PM IST with participation from all stakeholders including Government, academia, start-ups, farmers, industry associations and local as well as global companies.

 

The agrochemical sector has the potential to be a growth engine for the Indian chemical industry by making India ‘Aatma Nirbhar’ in the global chemical market provided the industry challenges are addressed in a time bound manner. 

 

Even during COVID-19, the agrochemical sector has done exceptionally well. Meanwhile, the circumstances for growth of the agrochemical sector is quite favourable. The first and foremost is the growing population of India that needs to be fed. India contributes to 18% to the world population with 2% of the landmass creating a huge surge in demand for food products. This can only be achieved by increasing the per hectare production through an efficient use of agrochemicals. 

 

Another supporting factor is the manufacturing capacity and exports of agrochemicals in China has fallen drastically due to implementation of stringent environmental norms as well as trade war with the USA. This offers a great opportunity for the Indian agrochemical industry to come forward and establish India as the leader in manufacturing and export hub in the global agrochemical market. 

 

Already witnessing a good growth rate, Indian agrochemical market has the potential to reach $8.1 billion by 2025 from $4.1 billion and the sector is expected to grow at a growth rate of 8.3 percent till 2025. 

  

The speakers for the agrochemical E-conference are: Dr. Vishal Choudhary, Deputy Industrial Advisor, Department of Chemical & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Govt of India; Anil Kakkar, Vice President, Sumitomo Chemicals; Raju Kapoor, Director - Corporate Affairs, FMC Corporation; Dr. Kalyan Goswami, Director General, Agro Chem Federation of India; Viswanathan Rajendran, Partner, Kearney India; Dr. A. Krishnaiah, Sr. Principal Scientist, CSIR - India Institute of Chemical Technology; Sanjay Vidyarthi, MD & CEO, Agritech Enablers; Jagdish Prasad Ranakoti, Ex- Pradhan - Ganga Bhogpur, Uttarakhand; and Nikky Kumar Jha, Co-Founder, SaptKrishi Scientific Pvt. Ltd. The E-conference shall be moderated by Pravin Prashant, Editor, Indian Chemical News. 

 

Talking about Making India a Global Agrochemical Manufacturing Hub, Pravin Prashant said, "For India to become a global manufacturing hub all stakeholders need to come together and work in tandem. The policy makers need to focus on ease of doing business and time bound clearances, the industry needs to focus on R&D and setting up large factories to meet the requirements of both India as well as global market and also enhance brand India so that it can be leveraged with respect to exports."

 

Even on the R&D front, the industry needs to focus on increasing its budget and working in a cohesive manner with R&D labs and research institutes to bring quality products in a time bound manner, commented Prashant. 

 

The panel discussion will cover key issues like Demand and supply analysis of agrochemicals globally and where is the gap; Impediments in making India a global agrochemical manufacturing hub; Ease of doing business and time bound environmental clearances; Impediments in establishing India as a major exporter of agrochemicals; Role to be played by the government, industry and other stakeholders; and Putting strong monitoring mechanism in place. 

 

The E-conference is supported by leading industry associations like CropLife India, PFMAI and Agro Chem Federation of India. 

 

All the participants also stand a great chance to win exciting prizes by participating in ICN Play & Win Contest during the live session.

 

Here's the link to pre-register for attending the live session on 22nd December 2020 from 3:00-4:30 PM IST