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Agricon Agroproducer Co Limited is a farmers producer company register under Companies Act. Agricon is farmer’s Cooperative which have 1016 Farmers/Producers as its shareholder. Company operates in Chhattisgarh State of India with its branches and offices spread across 12 Districts.
Agricon is engaged in different agriculture activity. Overall it can be categorized in four-
A center that provides input for agriculture like Pumps, Drip Irrigation System, Sprinkler, PVC Pipe and other accessories. It also deals with farm Mechanization like Power Tillers, Compact Tractors and Tractors ranging from 18HP to 50 HP along with 104 types of implements.
This is an online portal that has farm produce as its products. It provides a wide array of rural products like Rice, Pulses, Aromatic Oils, Honey, Tamarind, Spices Aromatic Oil, Moringa Powder, Biscuits and Rural Handicraft.
This online store is for both B2C and B2B.
It can be visited in www.agricon.store
Our lab is in collaboration with our partners. This lab enables us for the Research and Production of Tissue Culture Banana, Mushroom, Vegetable Grafted Seedling, Hydroponics Units, Poly houses, and High-End Agriculture Practices.
Our farms are located in various districts of the state. It demonstrates various crops with high-end technology and also with low-cost technology. Sustainable Agriculture Farm, Organic Farm, Fruit Orchards, Aromatic Farms. We along with our member Farmers have an elaborative farming exposure and demonstrations of more than 1500 acres.
Our Company is working towards organizing the Agriculture as industry by infusing the idea of agro-preneurship within the farmers. The vision of Agricon is to establish prudent operational cycle from crop production to market thus ensuring agriculture as more profitable business model.
Our company is committed to ensure more profit for farmers with the help offollowing-
Dr Sanket Thakur, Chairman and Managing Director
Summary
Basically, an Agriculture Scientist with an approach to provide the benefits of agriculture and biotechnology to farmers and promote Agropreneurship among farmers.
Specialties
A Plant Biotechnologist by profession with specialisation in plant tissue culture, industrial horticulture, biofertilizers, bio manures& biopesticides.biofuel generating crops, biogas, environmental plant physiology, controlled growth environment and field research of fruits, vegetables, medicinal, aromatic and cash crops. Watershed development, water harvest technology. Organic farming based on cow manure & cow urine.Plantation and maintenance of timber wood species.
Education
University of London
Doctor of Philosophy – PhD, Plant Tissue Culture · (1991 – 1994)
Rajnish Awasthi, Director
Summary
Primarily a food technologist, but later shifted interest to rural development. Expertise in enterprise development in rural and remote areas of Chhattisgarh. Working untiringly for last 16 years in tribal and rural areas of Chhattisgarh, MP, Mizoram, and Odisha and have many success stories to share.
Pivoted in Producing Range of Organic Herbs, Moringa for leaves. Helped Agricon to establish range of Certified Organic and conventional Essential Oils having 23 Line of products, with a centralised distillery unit at Raipur and multiple field distillation units at 12 locations in Chhattisgarh. He believes in inclusive growth of every stake holder be it from farmer or our suppliers.
Manas Banerjee, Chief Executive Officer
Summary
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the civic & social organization industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Financial Risk, Business Relationship Management, Risk Management, Requirements Analysis, and Banking. Experienced in establishing Farmers Producer Company, Supply Chain Management. Backward and forward Linkages for business related to agriculture and farming
The Agricon has well qualified and experienced agriculture experts and scientists in Board of Directors. The BOD consists experts from diverse field of agriculture and allied subjects including Agri-Biotechnology, Field crops, Horticulture, Herbal crops, Plant Protection. Agriculture Engineering, Agriculture Finance, Agricultural Information Technology etc. The Directors have the sound knowledge, exposure and expertise of National and International Agro industries. The BOD has qualified team of directors who obtained their professional and education training from National and International Institutes like University of London, UK; Central Food Technology Research Institute, Mysore; MANAGE, Hyderabad; Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur; Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University Jabalpur etc.
