Association for Vertical Farming Summit 2015 in Beijing China. For more information, visit their website: https://vertical-farming.net/

2. AG
FUTURE
2015-­‐2050
INDIA
by
MOHAN
BAJIKAR
AVF
-­‐India

3. NEEDS
Projec@on
of
popula@on
2050
-­‐
2030
-­‐
2010
India
1.6
billion
-­‐
1.53
billion
-­‐
1.22
billion
China
1.4
billion
India
+
China
a
third
of
world
popula@on
an@cipated
9.2
billion
CaSle
popula@on
546
million
in
2012

4. CONDITIONS
Soils
Map
of
India
degraded
saline
soils

5. CONDITIONS
Ground
water
deple@on

6. CONDITIONS
Average
temperature

7. CONDITIONS
Average
rainfall
even
drinking
water
scarcity

8. CONDITIONS
Climate
change
impact
2015
affected
10
million
hectares
which
resulted
in
drought
with
severe
crop
loss
resul@ng
farmers
suicide
on
increase

9. CONDITIONS
45%
farmers
have
abandoned
agriculture
leading
to
RAPID
URBANIZATION
farming
has
become
unremunera@ve.

10. CONDITIONS
Demonstra@ons
across
India
on
recent
land
bill
introduc@on
In
the
Parliament

11. CONDITIONS
Sad
blow
of
Earth
Quake
twice
on
25
&
26
April
2015

12. CONDITIONS

13. OPPORTUNITIES
GROW
CUBE
Anybody
can
do
it

14. OPPORTUNITIES
Freight
farms

15. OPPORTUNITIES
HYDROPONICS
has
failed
in
India

16. OPPORTUNITIES
AEROPONICS
has
been
tried
and
acceptable
under
controlled
climate
agriculture.
Imports
costs
are
high
local
manufacturing
is
needed

17. VISIT TO VIETNAM

25. Vertical farming: A hot new area for
investors

26. OPPORTUNITIES
Ver@cal
farming
concepts
already
two
projects
proposed
with
expected
paybak
61/2
tears
and
20%
profit
for
investors
Third
are
sky
farms

27. OPPORTUNITIES
Farmers
are
willing
to
lease
their
lands
long
term
basis
30-­‐50
years.
They
can
be
trained
and
employed
from
produc@on
packaging
to
distribu@on.
Management
exper@se
and
funding
is
necessory

28. ACTIONS
INITIATED
Ver@cal
Farming
Associa@on
has
been
just
recently
registered

29. ACTIONS
INITIATED
Have
addressed
several
PE
firms,
Bankers
all
are
interested.
Also
some
leading
industrialists
have
shown
interest
and
presenta@ons
will
be
made.

30. ACTIONS
INITIATED
Have
addressed
agri
university
and
cer@ficates
of
introductory
training
with
kind
help
from
AVF
have
been
awarded
to
par@cipants.
Have
addressed
an
engineering
university.
Expec@ng
news
coverage
soon.

31. ACTIONS
INITIATED
Plan
to
hold
ver@cal
farming
summit
in
Delhi-­‐Mumbai-­‐
Bangalore
end
September
2015

32. Need
of
the
hour
is
to
have
1-­‐3
demo
projects
to
validate
claims
economic
viability

33. Have
come
to
learn/co-­‐create
to
deliver
and
examine
possible
@e
up
with
Technology
Groups

35. Way
forward
Up
&
up
in
the
sky,
sky
is
the
limit
CONCLUSION

36.
MOHAN
BAJIKAR
+91
-­‐
9810
618
066,
+91
–
9717
977756
mohanbajikar@gmail.com
mohanbajikar@agfuture.in
THANK
YOU
ALL

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