Workforce Strategies for Tech-Driven Agri Businesses

Agri-businesses and agrochemicals industries have been growing steadily and surely in India making these strong champions of the worldwide stance. Since 2017, the agricultural sector has shown remarkable growth and investments taking place. The funding mechanism becomes strong by the day, for this fold in India.

While this is getting sorted, the bigger picture lies in understanding the need and importance of workforce strategies. With smart staffing solutions, bulk-hiring, and tech solutions that bring smoothen the processes on the recruitment and HR side, it is essential to understand the impact that technology has on agri-businesses and how that directly affects the workforce strategies.

Digitalization has slowly and surely started metamorphosing the economy across sectors including agri-businesses, in India. The agri-businesses contribute nearly 20% of the GDP, which has been a buzz of late.

There are several important activities that are just a click of a button away. The improved efficiencies, connectivity, knowledge sharing, and other important tasks are a result of the rise of tech-driven agri-businesses.

PM Modi flagged the special initiative of using drones to spray pesticides and called it a new chapter in the direction of the modern agriculture spectrum in India. In February, 2022, 100 kisan drones were used to spray pesticides across India as kickstart activity of this initiative.

In a major stimulus for the farming and agriculture sector the Indian Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced a budget for 2022-23 favouring the upliftment of this sector.

PLI – In the international markets with an outlay of lots of crores of Indian rupees, and commensurate with the country’s Indian brands of food products, natural resources endowment, the PLI scheme for the Food Processing Industry (PLISFPI) and the build of global food manufacturing.

Scheme highlights:

• The conditions of stipulated Minimum Sales and mandated investment will not be applicable for entities selected for making innovative/ organic products.
• The second component relates to support for branding and marketing abroad to incentivize the emergence of strong Indian brands.
• Support creation of global food manufacturing champions;
• Strengthen select Indian brands of food products for global visibility and wider acceptance in the international markets;
• Increase employment opportunities for off-farm jobs,
• Ensuring remunerative prices of farm produce and higher income for farm
• For the promotion of the Indian Brands abroad, the scheme envisages grants to the applicant entities for – in-store Branding, shelf space renting, and marketing.