"Agtech landscape in India with a focus on innovations in financing small and marginal farmers"

The Global Agri-Food Tech scene is growing rapidly, with investments increasing from USD 2.9B in 2012 to USD 19.8B in 2019, nearly seven times over 7 years. Agtech, a niche segment within that sector, focuses on the application of new-age technologies to smallholder farming and has the potential of providing farmers better access to information, markets, credits, and inputs. In this webinar, officials from Rabo Bank discussed the Agtech landscape in India with a focus on innovations in financing small and marginal farmers. India has over 126 million small and marginal farmers (< 2-hectare landholding) who represent 86% of the total number of farmers in India. At least 50% of these small and marginal farmers are unable to get credit from any source due to a variety of reasons, and a large number of borrowers still resort to informal sources of loans. Speakers shared the findings from the study on ‘’Role of Tech-enabled formal agriculture financing in India ‘’ commissioned by Rabo Bank Foundation and conducted by ThinkAg & MSC.