The Hindu businessline Agri and Commodity Summit 2025 to be organised on January 10 at New Delhi

Join the Hindu Businessline Agri and Commodity Summit 2025 in New Delhi for insights on climate-resilient agriculture and agri-business.

The Hindu businessline Agri and Commodity Summit 2025 on ‘Shaping agriculture and agri-business in a changing climate’ will be organised on Friday (January 10) at New Delhi.

With an aim to foster actionable solutions for a thriving, climate-resilient agricultural economy, the summit will bring together policymakers, industry leaders and experts to address challenges and unlock opportunities in agri-business.

While Devesh Chaturvedi, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, will inaugurate the summit, a special address will be delivered by Ashish Kumar Bhutani, Secretary, Ministry of Co-operation. K.V. Shaji, Chairman, NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development), will deliver the keynote address.

A session on ‘Why the monsoon has been raining woes over the last few years’ will have experts panellists including D.S. Pai, Scientist G, India Meteorological Department; Nabansu Chattopadhyay, Director, Agricultural Meteorology Division, World Meteorological Organisation; Ajai Rana, Chairman, FSII and CEO, Savannah Seeds; and Neha Kumar, Head, South Asia Programme, Climate Bonds Initiative.

A session on ‘Overcoming climate change with new seeds, strategies’ will have Venkatram Vasantavada, Director, FSII and MD & CEO, Seedworks International; Simon Wiebusch, MD & CEO, Bayer CropScience; S. Soundararadjane, CEO, HyFarm; and Sanjiv Kanwar, MD, Yara South Asia as panellists.

Interactions with ‘Drone Didis’ and ‘Solar Didis’ will add another interesting aspect to the summit. There will be a session on ‘Tapping digitisation and technology for agri development’ with Hemendra Mathur, Co-founder, ThinkAg; Arjun Ahluwalia, CEO, Jai Kisan; Partha Ghosh, Programme Lead, Social Alpha; and Paresh Verma, ED, Shriram Bioseed Genetics as the speakers.

Another session on ‘Making way for biomass-based bio-energy’ will include speakers such as Monish Ahuja, MD, PRESPL; Madhur Jain, CEO, Varaha; Maninder Singh Nayyar, CEO, CEF; and Avinash Save, Co-founder and COO, Biofuel Circle.