Top 10 CEOs From AgriTech - 2023

AgTech Cultivating Ideas for Growth
The economy of India is an Agro-Economy. Being one of the largest agricultural players in the world, India has experienced a buoyant growth in both, agriculture and AgTech in the last decade. AgTech is nothing but innovations used to integrate efficiency, profitability and sustainability across the value chain. It includes hardware and software, business models, new technologies and new applications. AgTech, now with new industry players around it leveraging data, tools and decision-support to assist agribusinesses to meet emerging consumer demands. One of the major factors driving growth for AgTech is the increasing demand for higher crop yields due to the ever increasing global population. And, the rapid urbanization has further boosted the demand owing to the reduction of cultivable land, rise in food shortage, and ever-increasing demand for grains and vegetables.

"If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right"

Leaders in Agriculture: Dealers in Hope
The agriculture industry is gradually transforming into a next high-tech sector and technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and computer vision are being leveraged to harness crop yields, supply chains, and sustainability. Giving the above facts a figure, the Indian agriculture market reached a value of about $435.9 billion in 2022 and the market is further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 4.9 percent between 2023 and 2028 to reach a value of approximately $ 580.82 billion by 2028. And, the above success as a whole attributes to nothing but to the infusion of strong leadership role such as CEOs and other chief professionals and unmatched academic talent from both agriculture and technology background which has vitally increased the capabilities and has stimulated the growth of this sector, from development of new technology to sustainable farming.

CEO Insights magazine in this issue presents a list of 'Top 10 CEOs from AgriTech - 2023' who have leveraged their extensive industry expertise and experience in offering effective skills to the market. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board. We recognize their valuable contribution to the ever expanding and competitive market and their ability to sustain themselves and emerge as top contestants through their reliable knowledge.