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AGRIPRENEURS IN INDIA NEED LONG TERM VISIBILITY OF FUND

Agripreneurs in India have the limited ability to invest and scale up their business. Therefore, they need longer term visibility of fund to build the team and collate necessary resources required. Moreover, incubators and mentors need to appreciate the complexity and ground reality to help start-ups develop business models. In an interaction with Entrepreneur India, Ashutosh Kumar Sinha, Co-founder & Director, Villfarm Agrisolutions Private Limited, highlights the challenges that today agricultural start-ups are facing in the country and how it can be resolved only with the help and intervention of the government bodies, incubators and VCs: For further information click ICA R What kind of challenges agricultural start-ups are facing in India today? Owing to the huge productivity gaps and large market size, agricultural start-ups have one of the biggest potential in India. But agriculture is a multiple operations enterprise, where about 10 different operations starting from soil p