Arun Baroka, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural edition of AgroChem Summit 2023 on February 24, 2023 at The Park Hotel in New Delhi.

Susanta Kumar Purohit, Joint Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India will also participate as a panelist in Collaborative Approach to Realistic Agrochemicals Potential session.

Please register for the Summit by clicking on the link (https://www.indianchemicalnews.com/agrochem-summit-2023/).  

The theme of the Summit is "Making India A Manufacturing Hub" and is organized by Indian Chemical News (ICN), the most credible online media platform for the Chemicals, Petrochemicals, and Energy sector.

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 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.

Speakers confirmed for AgroChem Summit 2023 are:

Mr. Arun Baroka, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India

Mr. Susanta Kumar Purohit, Joint Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers,  Government of India

Mr. Rajju Shroff, Chairman Emeritus, UPL Group

Mr. R. G. Agarwal, Group Chairman, Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Mr. Natubhai Meghjibhai Patel, Managing Director, Meghmani Organics Ltd.

Mr. Burjis N. Godrej, Executive Director, Godrej Agrovet Ltd.

Mr. S. K. Chaudhary, Founder & Director Safex Group

Mr. Simon Thorsten Wiebusch, Executive Director, Bayer CropScience Ltd.

Dr. Vishal Choudhary, Deputy Industrial Advisor, DCPC, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Dr. Kalyan Goswami, Director General, Agro Chem Federation of India

Mr. Abhishek Aggarwal, President & COO, Bharat Rasayan Ltd. & BR Agrotech Ltd.

Dr. K. C. Ravi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Syngenta India Ltd.

Dr. Brijesh Tripathi, Deputy Director – Chemistry CIB&RC, MoA&FW

Mr. Vijay Jha, DGM - Regulatory Affairs, Rallis India Ltd.

Dr. Samir P. Dave, Secretary, PMFAI

Mr. Raju Kapoor, Director - Public & Industry Affairs, FMC India

Mr. Anurag Roy, CEO, Astec Lifesciences Ltd.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar, Director, Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology

Mr. Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Founder and CEO, Garuda Aerospace

Mr. Smit Shah, President, Drone Federation of India

Mr. Prem Kumar Vislawath, Founder & CEO, Marut Drones

Mr. Sanjeev Kashyap, Chief Delivery Officer, General Aeronautics

Mr. Suraj Kumar, Head - Strategy, IoTechWorld Avigation

Mr. Nithin Venkatraman, National Sales & Business Development Manager - Process Catalysts, BASF India

Dr. Anand Krishnamurthy, Head – Technical Sales BIOVIA Dassault Systemes

Dr. Rafi Shaik, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Carbanio.com

Mr. Durgesh C. Sharma, Secretary General, CropLife India

Mr. Harish Mehta, Senior Advisor, Crop Care Federation of India

Dr. Srinivas Kantevari, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR IICT

Mr. Viswanathan Rajendran, Partner, Kearney

Mr. Shashank Chaturvedi, Director – Marketing, HIL (India) Ltd.

Mr. Hemendra Mathur, Co-founder, ThinkAg

Mr. Avinash Nayak, Principal, Kearney

Mr. Shivaji Singh, General Manager, JU Agri Sciences Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sanjay Vidyarthi, Founder, Bharat to India Connect

Ms. Pritee Panicker, Manager - Regulatory Affairs Auxilife Scientific Services Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Pravin Prashant, Editor, Indian Chemical news 

Mr. Yogesh Joshi, Director, Indian Chemical News

The Summit will focus on: Policy Support for Growth of Indian Agrochemicals; Enabling Regulatory Ecosystem for the Growth of Agrochemicals Industries; Role of Drones in Agrochemicals Sector; Collaborative Approach to Realistic Agrochemicals Potential; and Agrochemicals 2030: The Future Perfect.

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).