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Leading technology platform for agribusinesses AgNext Technologies strives
to solve the problem of food quality to accelerate transactions and build
sustainability. Company CEO & Founder Taranjeet Singh Bhamra shares the
gaps in the market that prompted him to foray into the agricultural space and
transform it like never before…

Source: AgNext Technologies

T aranjit Singh Bhamra, and needed revolutionary trans- er, after his stints globally.
CEO & Founder, AgNext formations for practical applica-
Technologies, was pas- tions in agriculture. The eye-opener
His dissertation on Crop Nutri- For three years, post IIT Kharag-
sionate about agriculture right ent Modeling and early work pur, he had first-hand experi-
on molecular analysis in food, ence of the challenges at the
POONAM PEDNEKAR from his childhood days. This way back in 2001-2002, con- grassroots level in agriculture,
Chief Copy Editor vinced him that data, ingested wherein he was associated with
Magic Wand Media Inc passion manifested in the form through various revolutionary food manufacturing operations
poonam.pednekar@ technologies, will emerge as and commodity procurements
magicwandmedia.in of Agriculture Engineering from the game changer for agricul- and followed it up with an MBA
ture. It is the ingestion of data from IIM Calcutta.
India’s top Engineering Universi- that morphed into a revolution While he was working as a
called AgNext many years lat- project manager for a food
ty - IIT Kharagpur that offered

him exposure to numerous cases

where data driven technologies

were used in agriculture, for ex-

ample, Crop Simulation. Howev-

er, applications were incremental

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