Billions of dollars investment increase; what’s up with agriculture?
It’s magnanimous and astounding, but agriculture of all the sectors has seen huge increases in private and public sector investment in the past five years. B&E does a quick news synopsis and update of the investment scenario in the agricultural sector and commentates on visible issues by Angshuman Paul
We’ll jump straight out of the chaff. According to the Annual Report 2009-10 of the Ministry of Agriculture, the public and private sector investment in agriculture has been steadily increasing since 2004-05. While public sector investments in agriculture have increased from $3.61 billion in 2004-05 to $5.5 billion in 2008-09 (52% increase), private sector investments have increased from $14 billion in 2004-05 to $25.5 billion in 2008-09 (82% increase).
While the general think has been that agriculture has slowly been losing out its sheen – both at the grass roots level (more and more farmers preferring to migrate to cities) and at the corporate level – the actual figures allude to a situation that seems clearly quite to the contrary. Not only has the agriculture sector been able to attract investments, it also has been able to do the same across the value chain – right from the fields to the point of value added disbursement.
On afterthought, this shouldn’t have been that difficult to forecast, as much of the planned investment is arising purely because of the clear cut rising gap between the demand and supply of food items like cereals, pulses, edible oil and sugar. Consultant and industry body estimates that the rising gap will further give birth to a plethora of service-providers and firms that would try to develop newer business opportunities between the consumer and food-manufacturer.
Data from FICCI corroborates this perspective – FICCI research claims that the food processing industry in India would reach an astonishing size of `1 lakh crore by the end of 11th plan. And in this food processing chain are involved grading, sorting and packaging (GSP) service providers, venture capitalists, and other food processing firms. At the front end of this supply chain, organized retailers are targeting consumers with attractively packaged processed agri-commodities; and at the back end, are companies specialising in setting up cold chain facilities. At the vanguard of these opportunities are some of the biggest names of India Inc like Tatas, ITC, Reliance who are consciously linking to Indian farmers in various ways.
Star Bazaar (the hypermarket formats of Tatas) has recently collaborated for setting up a supply chain of UK’s Tesco that will ensure exports of agri-commodities from India. Reliance Fresh is building a logistics business that includes a massive cold storage operation; this should be operational by 2011. Tata Chemicals has set up a banana ripening centre in a joint venture with Irish company Total Produce. Christened as Khet Se, this venture was started in 2007 and within a time span of three years it has managed to grow at more than 30 per cent. And these are the top examples that signify the impetus driving the sector currently.
We’ll jump straight out of the chaff. According to the Annual Report 2009-10 of the Ministry of Agriculture, the public and private sector investment in agriculture has been steadily increasing since 2004-05. While public sector investments in agriculture have increased from $3.61 billion in 2004-05 to $5.5 billion in 2008-09 (52% increase), private sector investments have increased from $14 billion in 2004-05 to $25.5 billion in 2008-09 (82% increase).
While the general think has been that agriculture has slowly been losing out its sheen – both at the grass roots level (more and more farmers preferring to migrate to cities) and at the corporate level – the actual figures allude to a situation that seems clearly quite to the contrary. Not only has the agriculture sector been able to attract investments, it also has been able to do the same across the value chain – right from the fields to the point of value added disbursement.
On afterthought, this shouldn’t have been that difficult to forecast, as much of the planned investment is arising purely because of the clear cut rising gap between the demand and supply of food items like cereals, pulses, edible oil and sugar. Consultant and industry body estimates that the rising gap will further give birth to a plethora of service-providers and firms that would try to develop newer business opportunities between the consumer and food-manufacturer.
Data from FICCI corroborates this perspective – FICCI research claims that the food processing industry in India would reach an astonishing size of `1 lakh crore by the end of 11th plan. And in this food processing chain are involved grading, sorting and packaging (GSP) service providers, venture capitalists, and other food processing firms. At the front end of this supply chain, organized retailers are targeting consumers with attractively packaged processed agri-commodities; and at the back end, are companies specialising in setting up cold chain facilities. At the vanguard of these opportunities are some of the biggest names of India Inc like Tatas, ITC, Reliance who are consciously linking to Indian farmers in various ways.
Star Bazaar (the hypermarket formats of Tatas) has recently collaborated for setting up a supply chain of UK’s Tesco that will ensure exports of agri-commodities from India. Reliance Fresh is building a logistics business that includes a massive cold storage operation; this should be operational by 2011. Tata Chemicals has set up a banana ripening centre in a joint venture with Irish company Total Produce. Christened as Khet Se, this venture was started in 2007 and within a time span of three years it has managed to grow at more than 30 per cent. And these are the top examples that signify the impetus driving the sector currently.
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An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
Zee Business Best B-School Survey 2012
Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Session at IMA Indore
IIPM IN FINANCIAL TIMES, UK. FEATURE OF THE WEEK
IIPM strong hold on Placement : 10000 Students Placed in last 5 year
IIPM's Management Consulting Arm-Planman Consulting
Professor Arindam Chaudhuri - A Man For The Society....
IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management
IIPM makes business education truly global
Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri
Rajita Chaudhuri-The New Age Woman
IIPM B-School Facebook Page
IIPM Global Exposure
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