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Farmer cooperative to Farmveda in 7 years

Vishy KurugantiDecember 06, 20192 mins

Is it a coincidence that I invoke Dr. Trilochan Sastry in yesterday’s post and today there’s a message from him in my Inbox? Either that or I have psychic powers. Dear Sir/ Ma’am, To give you a bit of…

A farmer's son deliberates on the cooperative decision

Vishy KurugantiMay 10, 20133 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last year, I *attended the Anantpur Cooperative Federation Annual General Meeting (AGM) *in Gutturu village of Anantpur district (Andhra Pradesh).** Conversations with a few farmers…

The Last 500 Feet

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20139 mins

[Editor’s Note: Paul Polak, social entrepreneur and author of Out of Poverty, wrote this highly informative narrative of the problems (and some proposed solutions) in the rural transportation area…

Making Knowledge Mobile: Agricultural Advice Only a Phone Call Away for Indian Farmers

Vishy KurugantiOctober 25, 20123 mins

[Editor’s Note: CABI is a not-for-profit international organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the…

Intuit Fasal quietly disrupting the farm market intelligence space

Vishy KurugantiOctober 10, 20125 mins

A happy Fasal farmer (Pic courtesy intuit.com) What happens when you breed JustDial and ZipDial with a Nasdaq 100 software company in the Indian rural countryside? You get Intuit Fasal – a powerful…

Omnivore's appetite for agri technologies beginning to show

Vishy KurugantiOctober 03, 20121 mins

Tractor-operated seed drill (Pic courtesy khedutagro.com) Livemint reported yesterday that Omnivore Capital made two investments in agtech companies. The two companies, Rajkot-based Khedut Agro…

Multi-Pronged Supply Chain Strategy for Indian Horticulture

Vishy KurugantiJuly 06, 20122 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part article – originally published on Scribd.com by Sivakumar Surampudi (aka “Shiv”), a 22 year ITC veteran and architect of e-Choupal. Part 1 link here and…

Supply Chains for Horticultural Products

Vishy KurugantiJuly 05, 20124 mins

[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Scribd.com by Sivakumar Surampudi (aka “Shiv”), a 22 year ITC veteran, architect of e-Choupal, and head of their Agro Business Division (ABD…

Decades after White Revolution Gujarat gearing up for Blue Revolution

Vishy KurugantiJuly 03, 20124 mins

*All revolutions don’t have to be red in color. Milk is white and water is blue. – Old jungle saying* [Editor’s Note: Meera Sanyal, CEO of RBS India who contested parliament elections in 2009 as an…

Observations from a farmer cooperative AGM

Vishy KurugantiJune 28, 20123 mins

Penukonda (70km from Anantapur and 14km from Gutturu) – Pic courtesy tripmodo.com [Editor’s Note: Earlier this month I was invited by Dr. Trilochan Sastry to attend the Anantpur Cooperative Federation…

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