Bästa Venky Ramachandran podcaster (2024)

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The Future of Regenerative Agriculture is Agroecology: Dialogue with Ramanjaneyulu GV 2:04:42

8M ago2:04:42

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With every David and Goliath Agritech player now co-opting ‘Regenerative Agriculture’, ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ has officially entered the trough of disillusionment. Mind you, in a country like India, ‘regenerative agriculture’ is as much illegible as ‘organic agriculture’ or ‘natural farming’. Rightfully so, because each agroclimatic zone adapts…

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'Each Product is a minimum 1000 crore opportunity' 1:54:32

8M ago1:54:32

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Ajay TG, General Manager, Westfalia Fruit India, joined the Agribusiness Matters Townhall to talk of possibilities for agritech startups in exporting fresh and processed produce to international markets. In this spellbinding, candid conversation with hard-earned ground insights, we discussed, Why Westfalia globally has been focusing on geographical…

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Organic Food Branding Master Class with Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa) and Ryan Siwinski (GoodSam Foods) 1:00:02

8M ago1:00:02

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How do you navigate the tensions between being mission-driven and building a sustainable business in organic/regenerative food space? Although Ryan and Shashi come from diverse worlds, there is a fascinating parallel in the work they are doing in the regenerative/organic food space. Whether it is GoodSam Foods or Akshayakalpa Organic, both are miss…

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Thirty Years of Agribusiness with Venkata Subbarao Kolli 1:11:14

8M ago1:11:14

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Subbarao looks back at his illustrious thirty-plus-year career to reflect (in hindsight) on what has changed and what has not in the Indian agri-inputs market landscape. In this extremely personal conversation with opinionated agribusiness insights that stem from first principles, Subbarao talks of How reading “Social Impact of Computers” changed h…

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Farmer Advocacy Matters with Ajay Vir Jakhar 54:36

8M ago54:36

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In this fascinating conversation, we explored What is the idea behind Bharat Krishak Samaj? How to understand the role of Farmer advocacy organizations vis-a-vis farmer unions? Why does politics remain an albatross around the neck of Agriculture? Why do farmers not have much say on the policies that affect them despite being a majority vote bank? H…

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The Business of Plant Communication with Shely Aronov 52:28

8M ago52:28

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Inner Plant Founder and CEO Shely Aronov joins us to talk about strategic tradeoffs, the evolution of technology, commoditization, and disrupting the consolidation of the Big 6 agri-input landscape. These are the questions we delved into: Why does Inner Plant consider its core business to be in traits and not chemistry? Would the farmer pay for dat…

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On Organic Agriculture and Retail 1:59:15

10M ago1:59:15

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In this edition of Agribusiness Matters Podcast ('Agritech Samvaad (Dialogue)), let's talk about organic Agriculture and retail. We are going to talk about the challenges in doing organic farming and retailing with an eminent panel. 1) Narasimha Nakshatri 2) Vishala Padmanabhan, Consultant Executive Director, PGS Organic Council 3) Shefalika Sharma…