Scanit Revolutionizes Agriculture with Early Pathogen Detection: Transforming Crop Health in India and Beyond

Scanit, founded by founded by Pete Manautou and Jaydeep Rane, exemplifies innovation in agricultural technology by addressing a critical gap in disease detection. As a global ag-tech startup, it has developed the multi-patented SporeCam, which provides early disease-detection-as-a-service by capturing the most elusive datapoint for crop disease forecasts: real-time, hyperlocal pathogen presence, completing the disease…

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Kiran Antre: A Visionary Agropreneur Redefining Sustainable Farming

Kiran Antre, a Nashik-based entrepreneur and agricultural expert, stands as a shining example of a hashtag#ChildrenofFarmerEntrepreneur. With over a decade of experience, he has established a strong presence in the agrochemical industry, combining his agricultural roots with a passion for innovation. During my visit to his factory today, I was deeply impressed by his remarkable…

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India is blessed with entrepreneurs like Tukaram.

I was happy to meet Tukaram Sonawane along with Deepak Chavan. Tukaram is the co-founder of Krishigati and he exemplifies resilience and dedication in the journey from farmer’s son to agricultural innovator. Overcoming early hardship—losing his father young and supporting his visually impaired mother—Tukaram worked his way through school and engineering college, driven by a…

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Bioeconomy in Focus: Prasad Bhai’s Expertise and Dedication

Recently, I had the opportunity to spend time with Prasad and Kiran Ji, along with other individuals, at GK91 Bioeconomy and VARHAD Capital in Pune. Prasad has seen the Bioceconomy field for two decades and shared many valuable insights regarding this space during the discussions. Prasad bhai has the distinction of having worked in the…

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Empowering Rural Innovation: The Inspiring Founders of TECHENCE

Great meeting and lunch with Parmeshwar and Nitin the promoters and founders of TECHENCE which is Poultry industry focused SAS Co. They are strong domain guys who built a software Company out of village near Rajgurunagar Pune. This is a bootstrapped and profitable company.The interesting bit is that the main promoter has only HSC level…

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Inspiring Farmer-Led Startup with 8 Co-Founders

Met the absolutely brilliant team of 8 cofounders of a bootstrapped and profitable startup recently.All 8 are farmers kids and have built the venture by solving problems faced by their own family members. Shrilesh Mande is the brilliant leader of this team and I regard him as the Elon Musk of rural India!! Leading a…

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Sanmitra FPC !!

Met a great team of leaders from Sanmitra FPC recently. They are into procurement, marketing and primary processing. They have done onion processing to the tune of 300MT and 25 MT of Tomatoes which involves dehydration in an interesting partnership with a startup. They work on a hub and spoke model which gives fixed and…

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The Amazing Bhimabai!!

I met one of the most amazing persons of my life today in the form of Shrimati Bhimabai Sampat Jondhale. Bhimabai is the promoter of a unique “Ajjichya Pustakancha Hotel (Grandmothers Hotel with books)” which is a unique format restaurant which has more than 8000 publications on its premises to encourage clients, especially youngsters, to…

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