INNOVATIONS IN AGRICULTURE: AGRIBUSINESS INVESTMENT IN INDIA

Global demand for food and the levelling off of crop productivity intensifies the need for agricultural innovations. Increasingly, India’s private agribusinesses are meeting that need, funding research and development (R&D) that’s resulted in farm machinery, pesticide, and biotechnology advancements.

Keeping in mind the private sector’s success, the authors of Innovation and Research by Private Agribusiness in India, aim to strengthen future research by supplying India’s policymakers with quantifiable data and analyses on the:

• Factors influencing the expansion of agribusiness spending
• Impacts on production, poverty, health, and the environment
• Amounts private companies are investing in R&D

Covered in the report are some of private sector’s gains in productivity and efficiency, like:

• Cotton hybrids that now dominate the cotton seed market
• Efficient micro-irrigation systems
• Inexpensive small- and medium-sized tractors
• Low-cost ways of producing generic pesticides

Download the full report: Innovation and Research by Private Agribusiness in India