About AEGF

Empowering rural India

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.

What we do

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...

Anish Kumar, Director

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

Abhishek Agarwal

Abhishek Agarwal, Director

Finance professional with 18+ years of experience as senior finance leader at MNC's

K Jayaraman

K Jayaraman, Director

26 years finance and IT experience, expert in building and leading finance and

Rajendra Jog

Rajendra Jog, Director

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

Pankaj Shukla

Pankaj Shukla, COO

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

Our Team

Abhijeet Pawar

Abhijeet Pawar (Human Resource)

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

Bhawna Nirmal

Bhawna Nirmal (Business Dev.)

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

Varun Yadav

Varun Yadav (Market Linkages)

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

Prashant Vaidya

Prashant Vaidya (Accounts & Finance)

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

Project Leads

Abhishek Gupta (Madhya Pradesh)

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

Dipankar Bordoloi (Assam & North Bengal)

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

Gajanan Rajurkar (Irrigation Initiatives)

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 (AP&TS)

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

Yuwaraj Madheshwar (Nanded)

Yuwaraj has a rich background in agriculture and uses his skillset to help farmer