The India International Crop Protection Expo – IICP Expo was held on 5-6 September 2023 at HITEX Hyderabad

Date:2023/9/26

The organizers of the IICP Expo are RAY One Agri Consulting. RAY Consulting is known for their strategic consulting providing advisory services in the field of Agri Business and allied fields.

There was a long felt need and gap that was filled by IICP Expo to bring the stake holders of industry, academia, research, entrepreneurs, startups under one roof.

IICP Expo was one of its most grandeur exhibitions in agri business field with 

• Over 50 stalls from Indian and multinational companies, research institutions and startups.

• Over 25 globally acclaimed speakers on the subjects that were innovative, practical and making farming affordable & profitable. 

• Over 850 delegates.

• Students.

This is the first time in India that a B2B exhibition was held at this scale.

The participants were excited with the mega facilities on professionally laid stalls, large open meeting arenas, business lounges, meeting cafeteria.

The exhibition provided an ambience to exchange ideas, business innovations and networking never seen or heard before in India.

RAY Consulting believes that visitors unlike by other exhibitors should not be taxed with high visitor fees, hence made it complimentary. 

The prominent speakers were,

1.S K Malhotra, Project Director in Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, ICAR, ICAR & Industry Partnership

2.C S LIEW, Pacific Agriscience Pte Ltd Singapore, Status of Food Security & Agriculture, How it is related to India

3.Pradeep Jaipuria, P J Margo, Bioactive Humic Substances from Agri Biomass

4.N P Singh, Biostadt India, Global Biostimulants Perspective

5.R K Goyal, Verdesian Life Sciences USA, NUE & Seed applied Technology

6.M G Lee, Hanearl Science Korea, Recent trend of biologicals included Biostimulants and Microbiome And what we can expect from them for agriculture in future 

7.Saurabh Agarwal, Growit India, Growit in creating enhanced impact in agri inputs use efficiency.

8.Ajay Kalavala, iConcept Software, Future proof your business - neoInt – Agribusiness Intelligence Platform

9.Venkatesh Devanur, Agrilife India, India as sourcing centre for BioAg Inputs

10.KRK Reddy, SriBio Aesthetics, Regenerative Agriculture: climate change mitigation

11.Suresh Sirigiri, Pacific Spot, China, An Indian perspective on Global opportunities

12.G Markendeya, ATGC, Pheromone-Based Mating Disruption as the Next-Gen Crop Protection Technology – India's Journey to Global Leadership

13.Kimihide Kondo, Bharat Certis Agri Science, India is a big potential for Japanese Companies to collaborate.

14.Ranjitha Puskur, International Rice Research Institute, Socially and Environmentally Responsible Crop Protection: Imperative for Research-Industry Linkages

15.Linga R Gutha, International Rice Research Institute, Role of Public-Private Partnerships for Climate Smart and Sustainable Agriculture

16.Vipin Saini, BASAI, Why Ag chem companies should have Bio Agri Inputs as their portfolio

17.Sandeep Goyal, MP State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd, (MPSEDC), Integration of Geospatial Technology with AI/ML for Agriculture Development

18.Siddharth Doshi, RAY Nano Sciences, Nano Urea the way forward

19.Divay Kumar, O4S, Tracking original - overcoming counterfeits.

20.Chandrashekhar P Bonde, Rovensa Next, Bio stimulation 360

21.Karavadi Srinivas, Bayer Crop Sciences, Responsible business management

Some of the stalls were from,

•Ray Nano Science & Research Centre

•AURA Biotechnologies 

•Growit

•Agrilife India 

•Agrisol India

•Pestomatic Controls 

•Bioscience Research Foundation

•Trishul Biotech 

•ICRISAT International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India

•Dhana Crop Sciences

•iConcept

•ICAR – IIMR 

•Sri Bio Aesthetics 

•ICAR - Poultry Research 

•Verdesian Life Sciences USA

•NIPHM 

•Rovensa Next Spain

•Sowbhagya Biotech 

•IRRI - International Rice Research Institute Philippines 

•ICAR – IIHR 

•Biostadt

•T Stanes

•Bharat Certis AgriScience

•Aquaagri

•ICAR NBAIR 

•Pasura Crop Care 

•Shelter tarpaulins 

•JDM Scientific Research 

•ATGC

•PJ Margo

•O 4 S 

•Niruthi Climate & Eco Systems

•Bharat Rohan

AgroPages, as a media partner, distributed its business magazine, 2022 India Focus, on the spot.

To include wider agri business verticals, The India International Crop Protection Expo – IICP Expo will now be rebranded to The India International Agri Business Expo – IIAB Expo.

The dates for next year’s The India International Agri Business Expo – IIAB Expo are announced on 29-30 August 2024 at HITEX, Hyderabad, India.

Next edition will be much larger and with a much bigger format.

See you on 29-30 August 2024!