Unleashing technology, creating world-class agripreneurs

ABOUT AGRITECH ENABLERS

Agritech Enablers Private Limited is founded by a group of eight ex-CXOs/top Executives of India’s
leading companies, top ex-Bureaucrats, Entrepreneurs, and Farmers. Agritech Enablers is a For-Profit
company, with a strong social cause as its central driving force.
Agritech Enablers is incorporated for facilitating and de-risking agri technology adoption by India’s
tech starved small and marginal farmers, enabling manifold increase in farmers’ income, significantly
improving farm efficiency, and helping them become world-class agripreneurs.
Small and marginal farmers constitute 88% of India’s 145 million strong farming community, have
average landholding of just 1.5 acres and have an average agri income of INR 3,140 per month per
family of 4.9 members.
Our belief is unless India uplifts its very large constituency of small and marginal farmers, we cannot
get rid of perennial poverty, we cannot provide an equitable opportunity to hundreds of millions of
rural Indians, and we cannot become a prosperous and a happy nation. Enablement of these 127
million small and marginal farmers, who support nearly 625 million family members, will galvanize
India’s rural and national economy, it will create unprecedented market opportunity for Indian
industry, and it will generate unprecedented wealth for all the stakeholders.
India must find its biggest opportunity in the opportunity of its small and marginal farmers.
The vision of Agritech Enablers is to unleash the power of technology to facilitate agriculturists
become world-class prosperous agripreneurs.
Agritech Enablers will comprehensively handhold small and marginal farmers end-to-end for
adoption of technology in Build-Operate-Sustain-Transfer (BOST) mode:
 Arrangement of funds for Capital Expenses and Farm Operating Expenses for adopted technology
 Technical and Operational Support (technology selection, deployment, planning, processes and
systems development, quality management, operations management, organization development)
 Sales and Marketing of produce, establishing market linkages and institutional sales
 Business Management

May, 2021 www.agritechenablers.in Page | 1 of 3

 Unleashing technology, creating world-class agripreneurs

The Business Model of Agritech Enablers is based on Revenue/Crop/Profit Share with the Farmer or
on fixed income basis to recover its investment in the program. Partnering farmer will also get an
assured compensation equivalent to her/his current earnings from the farm.
Over next three years, Agritech Enablers is targeting to develop 1000 polyhouses and 2500 hectares
of open farms with comprehensive technology intervention across India. In five years, Agritech
Enablers intends to comprehensively tech enable 50,000 small and marginal farmers.
Agritech Enablers has developed a Proof of Concept at a 3-acre (1.2 hectare) farm at Bhondsi
(Gurgaon) that includes a 4000 sqM polyhouse and an 8000 sqM open farm and has deployed leading
edge agri technologies like polyhouse, precision farming, precision fertigation, has established crop
and farm planning, processes, systems, quality management, operations management, and is
establishing market linkages.

For more information, please visit our website https://agritechenablers.in/

May, 2021 www.agritechenablers.in Page | 2 of 3

 Unleashing technology, creating world-class agripreneurs

FOUNDERS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD

For detailed information on our Founders and Executive Board, please visit
https://agritechenablers.in/team.html

Vijay Pahwa, Chairman, has been a careerist in Sales & Marketing. 30 years in Tyre Industry. 5 in
Castrol. 4 in Reliance Petroleum. 9 in the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies. Currently Director
in Rubber Skills Development Council representing NSDC besides serving in two NGOs (Senior Citizen,
and Physically challenged).

Ranjiv Dalal, Vice Chairman, has been the Director General of Police Haryana. He has 38+ years’
experience in the fields of anti-terrorist operations, border management, investigations, vigilance,
public administration and personnel management. He had served at Lal Bahadur Shastri IAS
Academy, DIG Ambala range, IG Gurgaon Zone, IG BSF, IG HSEB and Director General Vigilance. He is
currently working with rural communities to empower them. He comes from a farming family.

Sanjay Vidyarthi, Managing Director & CEO, an engineer from NIT, Calicut, has worked for 33 years
in IT (4 years), Telecom (14), Services (13) and Social (2+) sectors across the globe in India,
Asia/Pacific, Europe and the US in multifunction roles, last 17 years as Managing Director/CXO. He
has worked at AT&T, Lucent, Tekelec (Oracle), iQor/Jabil/Telmar, Wipro. He is Founder of Bharat to
India Connect, a pro bono initiative for rural economic development.

RK Bahuguna, Director Technology, an engineering graduate from IIT/Roorkee, was founding

member and subsequently CMD of RailTel until 2017 and helped turn it around to become a
powerhouse. Previously he worked with Indian Railways as IRSSE for 20 years. Presently he is
Advisor/ICT to Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) for Gurugram SmartCity
initiative.

Asoka Iyer, Director Strategy, is an engineer from IIT/Kanpur with over 35 years’ experience in India
and overseas, in senior positions, in companies like Ranbaxy, MRF, RPG Group, Apollo Tyres etc. He
has worked in Horticulture, Floriculture, Aquaculture, Tyres, Textiles and HealthCare and has held
President, CEO, Director positions.

Ajit Sinha, Direct Finance, has 20 years of experience in Wealth Management and has established
more than one start-up under the Brand of InvestCare. He is an expert in Financial Planning, Product
Innovation and structuring, Fund raising, stock brokerages and Advisory solutions in various asset
classes.

Surender Yadav, Director Projects & Business Development, is a civil engineer and MBA and a
registered real estate consultant in Gurugram. He comes from a farming family and his farmland in
Rewari will be one of the farms for proof of concept.

Kashyap Kumar, Director HR, Sales & Marketing, is an ex Naval Captain who has since worked in the
BPO sector as COO for 7 years and has also marketed tractors in rural Bihar, UP and MP.

May, 2021 www.agritechenablers.in Page | 3 of 3