About AEGF

We are The Agri Entrepreneur Growth Foundation (AEGF)

We create tangible transformation for rural households and farmers in India.

AEGF, established under Section 8 (Companies ACT 2013) was established in 2019. Promoted by Syngenta Foundation India and Tata Trusts, AEGF adopts a decentralized approach towards empowering rural youth and training them to become Agri-Entrepreneurs (AEs) in rural areas. By doing so, the AEs begin playing key roles in developing the agriculture of their surrounding regions. This initiative brings services such as credit, market linkage, access to high-quality input, and crop advisory together, under one roof for associated farmers, who are able to avail previously inaccessible services and earn improved incomes. AEGF’s AE program, a joint venture with the Tata Trusts, aims at developing 100,000 AEs in the following five years to ultimately achieve the goal of serving 20 million smallholders.

Spirit of Entrepreneurship

We constantly seek change rather than waiting to adapt

Knowledge

As drivers of change, we believe in imparting the tools for change

Synergy

We believe that we can collectively accomplish more

Proactiveness

We are driven towards bringing effective change to the system

AEGF, co-founded by Syngenta Foundation India and TATA Trusts, supported by IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative packs an experienced and credible team working passionately towards rural development.

Anish Kumar, Director

25 years of rural livelihoods experience; expert in creating farmer-run businesses

Baskar Reddy, Director

15 years cross-cutting agri experience; expert in agronomy & policy implementation...

K Jayaraman, Director

26 years finance & IT experience; expert in building & leading finance &...

Rajendra Jog, Director

30+ years Agri Business experience; expert in supply chain management

Pankaj Shukla, COO

Pankaj, who holds an M.Sc. in Seed Tech from IARI and an MBA from XIM, Bhubaneshwar,...

Our Team

Abhijeet Pawar (Human Resource)

An HR, administration, IR & ER professional with 12 years of experience in the...

Bhawna Nirmal (Business Development)

Bhawna, with 5+ years of development experience, uses her expertise to design...

G. Satyanarayan (Accounts & Finance)

Satyanarayana, who graduated from Pune University with a B.Comm., has close to 4...

Prashant Vaidya (Accounts & Finance)

A skilled professional with 15+ years of experience infinance, accounts, asset...

Varun Yadav (Market Linkages)

With 5+ years of experience in Supply chain and Procurement of F&V and Agri...

Project Leads

Abhishek Gupta (Madhya Pradesh)

Abhishek Gupta is an M.Sc (Ag.) Botany from university of Allahabad with 13 years of...

Dipankar Bordoloi (Assam & North Bengal)

Dipankar has a rich background in tea technology and plantation management gained from...

Gajanan Rajurkar (Irrigation Initiaves & Palghar)

Gajanan graduated with a Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from IARI, New Delhi. An...

Gireesh P S (Karnataka & TN)

Gireesh graduated with an MBA in Agribusiness Management from the University of...

Ramprasad Sana (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana)

Ramprasad, an agriculturist and entomologist by training, specializes in organic...

Subhasish Pattnaik (Punjab)

With that skillset focused on agri-business management, Subhasish directs his efforts...

Vaibhav Wankhade (Jalna)

Vaibhav is a B. Sc. Agri grad from Dr. PDKV Akola university, MH. Right from mentoring...