A dynamic nation of 1.3 billion consumers with rising discretionary incomes, changing food patterns, vast farming area, diverse agriculture and a large population dependent on agriculture has propelled India to the world’s center stage as a big consumer market and also as a key supplier of food products. The rapidly growing global population and shrinking farmlands, coupled with changing socio-economic, agro- climatic and dietary patterns, have challenged scientists and policymakers to reconsider how we grow and feed 7.5 billion global citizens. India’s quest, then, is to grow sustainably, trade abundantly and progress harmoniously. Agriculture export, if properly supported by infrastructure, institutional back up, packaging, freight transport and connected to the internal production system backed by market access will be in a position to transform the agricultural economy.

Our aim is to link farmers’ producers’ organizations, farmers’ cooperatives to the export value chain through creation of infrastructure, facilitating primary and secondary processing in the clusters.