• From 55%, the labour availability in agriculture is expected to go down to 41% of the total workforce.
• Selective mechanization & advanced Agri Implements is essential to increase agricultural productivity
• Companies Researching and Manufacturing, location-specific, crop-specific and operation-specific improved Agri implements and farm mechanisation tools like improved hand tools, implements and machines for various farm operations.

• As agri chain is getting professionalized like rest of the industries, management education plays critical role in sharpening the management practices through process, strategy and delivery
• Institutions who have infra structure to impart decisive leadership skills
• Institutions whose alumni are contributing to the welfare of farming
• Institutions who have dedicated courses / Executive development programs on agri / rural sector can apply

• PGPR that increases the crop yield
• Solves abiotic challenges of the crops
• Helps farm produce to be better than existing output in terms of produce quality and higher yield out put

• A company which is overall appreciated by all stakeholders
• It gives an entire range of agrochemicals
• Has immense brand pull
• Works closely with the research and development community
• Educates farmer with good application practices
• Serves farming community with utmost solutions
• Has pan India presence

• A company that has either spent money on better farming practices awareness, or any other initiative that has benefitted farmers in particular or society at large in specially rural areas.
• Company or group that has helped farming community in education of safe and right use of pesticides

• Companies that have leveraged the digital space by offering simple and easy to use tools to the farmers, distribution channel

Award for the Best Drone Company/Individual is open to a range of individuals and companies who are championing the positive drone use in  Agriculture. 

A company which is:

• A Drone specialist transforming Agriculture
• Has pure innovation and groundbreaking technology to solve & Support Agriculture
• Startups using drone technology for creative solutions in agriculture,
• and large corporations driving innovation.

• A company which has been able to take the business to a scalable height in less than 5 years
• A company which has displayed great potential to become successful players in local and international marketplace.
• A company that might have raised from their current position by restructuring and turning around their businesses.

• A research-based company
• Molecule launched could be a standalone chemical formulation or a combination formulation
• Has formal CIB registration
• Has solved at least one difficult challenge in farmers crops

• FPO (Farmer Producer Organisations) that have overcome various challenges, to successfully build self-sustaining businesses 
• FPO’s that have contributed meaningfully to the member community. 
• FPO-promoting institutions who have worked to enable the ecosystems, influence policy
• FPO promotes sustainable and scalable models and incubates innovative solutions for the growth of farmers

An Indian origin global leader and change-makers who has contributed to agriculture in India and internationally.

• Each government has the biggest mandate to ensure food security to feed the growing population
• Government that helps farming in totality has succeeded in a better way
• Government machinery is the fastest and the largest that can make things happen
• Government policies effect the regional, global, climatic and marketing linkages

• A leader who seared company not in growth but offered all round strategic guidance to the company
• His / her role played critical in growing in challenging times by maintaining highest integrity

• A company that has remarkably addressed / solved the problem by offering innovative, integrated solution
• Used tools of different media
• Campaign that turned a business success
• Investments made were well encashed and will be delivered for a long time to come

• A company that has strived hard to educate stake holders in popularising Nutrients
• A company that has brought in novel nutrients that meet the crop nutrient hunger and has solved nutrient deficiency
• Has helped farmers to increase the output because of their nutrient usage
• Cost effective

• A company which has brought in new and innovative technology seeds to the farmers with higher yields and other factors that help farmer to cultivate effectively
• It gives farmer higher price when marketed
• Has immense brand pull
• Educates farmer with good package of practices for crop cultivation
• Serves farming community with utmost solutions

• A company which has brought in new and innovative technology seeds to the farmers with higher yields and other factors that help farmer to cultivate effectively
• It gives farmer higher price when marketed
• Has immense brand pull
• Educates farmer with good package of practices for crop cultivation
• Serves farming community with utmost solutions

• Co-Operative societies / NGO / FPO hand hold farmers by interventions that help farmers grow more with better farm practices
• They make farmers self-reliant
• Work on Lab to Land programs
• Develop and deliver projects that are funded from across the Globe

• A company not more than 5 years old and has made a mark by offering better crop solutions
• Has presence in more than at least five states
• Has plans to grow multi fold in next 3-5 years
• A crop solution company having a break taking offering for crops
• Solution could be from digital space, plant protection of Plant health i.e. PGPRs