ISAS Insights

With a population of 1.32 billion, where an average household spends 45 per cent of its expenditure on food (NSSO, 2011) and where the gross domestic product is growing between seven to eight percent per annum, India offers a big investment opportunity in its food-feedfibre value chains. Innovations all along the agri-value chains – from seeds of crops to sexing technologies in the dairy sector, from the ‘ uberisation of farm machinery’ to microirrigation through mobile solar pumps, and from solar-powered cold storages to processing, packaging, and retailing through e-commerce – are some of the emerging investment opportunities that can be game changers in the Indian agricultural sector.