I am excited to learn under Ramasubramanian Oruganti for a two day residential course on Indian System of Management in Mysore this weekend. As a management student, this question has been bothering me for long: Why do we have to ape someone else's theories that were born

State of Agritech - 23rd April 2025 1/ The Future of Fertilizers Is the Indian Fertilizer industry a classic case in point for the Red Queen’s Effect: Avoid Running Faster to Stay in the Same Place? Agribusiness Q3 FY25 Results 2/ Paradeep Phosphate Limited Q3 FY 25 Results How

The Red Queen Effect from evolutionary biology beautifully illustrates the competitive struggles required to maintain one’s position — "it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place." It beautifully mirrors the current predicament I see with the recent

Earlier, when I talked about India’s DAP shortage I wrote that “there are reasonable speculations that the delay in addressing the DAP shortage is to see if nano DAP adoption could piggyback on the shortage despite failed attempts" Given the early signs of data that shows

Venky Ramachandran Akshay A It's based on Mathamnaya by Adi Shankaracharya...

What do altM, HUID, Zero Cow Factory, Metastable Materials, BatX Energies, Bambrew and Agrileaf have in common? Besides sounding like characters from a sci-fi movie, they are pioneering players in the "Surrogate Economy"—an emerging sector replacing industrialized, synthetic

Dear Bollywood script-writers, If you ever find yourself out of ideas, consider making a mass-appealing agricultural “social message” entertainer movie with Akshay Kumar. Here is a rough story outline: Akshay Kumar is fired from his IT job thanks to AI. He decides to - switch

Agroecology and Agribusiness have largely been unfriendly with each other. The former hates the latter for pushing soil health as a tertiary problem while the latter hates the former for subsisting on doles and nonprofits without a clear demand curve from regular, cost-conscious

Every agritech entrepreneur in their entrepreneurial journey climbs many mountains. Three of which are very important. The First one could be called "What is Right". Passion drives the journey that unfolds in this mountain. Most agritech entrepreneurs at their early stages,

Many moons ago, Bill Gates courted controversy when he mentioned in a podcast that India is a “kind of laboratory to try things”. He further added that “when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places”. With his naive view of Impact and the ongoing

Gregory Bateson, in one of his books, argued that the history of our time can be perceived as a history of malfunctioning relationships. Our relationship with farmers is malfunctioning because we don't understand our bodies and what it takes to grow food that nourishes our

Joby CO has seen the highs and lows of Microfinance industry for a very long time. I asked him how sees the evolution of Microfinance in the country. Is the microfinance sector caught in a time-wrap,unable to come up with individualized credit approaches? The Microfinance