The Expert Committee of ICC Agri Business Initiative for the year 2018 – 2019 is being led under the Chairmanship of Shrikant Goenka, Premier Irrigation & Aditya Bagri, Bagrry Foods
Given the growing importance of the Agro and Food Processing Sector in the Eastern region, the Indian Chamber of Commerce has formed the largest forum involving all stakeholders in the agro and food processing sector for facilitating growth and development.
This forum is uniquely positioned as an all-industry trade association, representing the interests of every segment of the Agriculture and Food industry from Eastern region, including, Growers, Agri Input Manufacturers, Cold Storage / Cold Chain, Processors, Equipment Provider, Retailers, Foodservice Operators, Logistics Providers, Distributors and Suppliers.
The members of the forum work closely with Central and State Government to suggest policy framework for the development of Food Processing Industries considering socio-economic objectives, training needs, modernization, technological upgradation, quality improvement, productivity, employment generation, exports, etc.
The India International Potato Expo 2008, 2010, 2012, The Second Green Revolution Summit & Expo at Agro Protech 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, Agri Horti Food Fest 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and Assam International Agri Horticultural Show 2014 & 2015 are a few of the many initiatives that the Chamber has taken in promoting Agri business in the state and beyond along with regular delegation being taken to the famous Agri & Food expositions of the world like Anuga, Sial, etc.
The Indian Chamber of Commerce has also been awarded this prestigious European Union funded project under the Asia-Invest Program on “Investing in Sustainable Flower Agriculture and Trade”. The other partners of the project are representatives from Italy, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
- Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of India
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing, Horticulture, Food Processing Industries, Fisheries, Animal Resources Development of West Bengal Government and with other State Government of Eastern & North Eastern India
- IRRI, ICRISAT, FAO, CIP, UNDP
- National Horticulture Board (NHB), Ministry of Agriculture, Govt of India
- APEDA, Tea Board, Spices Board, Coffee Board, MPEDA
- Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore
- ICAR & IARI, New Delhi
- Indian Institute of Packaging, Kolkata
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- Jadavpur University, BCKV, UBKV, NIFTEM, IICPT
- Identify major bottlenecks that hinder the growth of agriculture and food sector.
- Identify its competitiveness in the global market and suggest a policy framework that would rejuvenate it.
- Facilitating the creation and provision of efficient infrastructure for the agriculture and food industry.
- Sensitizing all the stakeholders including the Central and the State Governments to catalyze the necessary policy changes that are needed to make this sector more vibrant and competitive.
- Address the conflicting domestic policies relating to production, procurement, pricing and distribution, ineffective subsidy system, regulated domestic markets, lack of infrastructure facilities, low productivity, low value addition, ad hoc export policies.
- Address training needs as well promotional requirements.
The Expert Committee of ICC Agri Business Initiative for the year 2015 – 2017 is being led under the Chairmanship of Mr. Rudra Chatterjee, Executive Director, Luxmi Group.
| Title | Name | Surname | Designation | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. | Rudra | Chatterjee | Chairman - ICC Agri Business Initiative | Executive Director - Luxmi Tea |
| Mrs. | T S Raji | Gain | Chief General Manager | NABARD |
| Mr. | Bibek Jyothi | Roy | Deputy Director - Marketing | Spices Board |
| Dr. | C.B | Singh | Regional In-Charge & Eastern General Manager | Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority |
| Mr. | Tanvi | Afzal | Chief General Manager | Mother Dairy, Calcutta |
| Prof. | Chittaranjan | Kole | Vice Chancellor | Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya |
| Mr. | Akhtar | Karim | Managing Director | West Bengal State Food Processing & Horticulture Development Corpn. Ltd |
| Dr. | S N | Biswas | Joint Director of Fisheries (HQ) | Department of Fisheries |
| Mr. | Jayanta Kr | Aikat | Director - Food Processing | Department of Food Processing Industries & Horticulture, Government of West Bengal |
| Mr. | Pijush Kanti | Pramanick | Director - Horticulture | Department of Food Processing Industries & Horticulture, Government of West Bengal |
| Mr. | Dibakar | Mukhopadhyay | Additional Secretary | Animal Resources Development Department, Government of West Bengal |
| Mr. | Godala | Kiran Kumar | Joint Secretary | Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal |
| Mr. | Goutam | Mukherjee | Joint Director | Department of Agricultural Marketing, Government of West Bengal |
| Mr. | Pramod Kr | Singh | Senior Vice President | Abis Exports India Pvt Ltd |
| Mr. | Subhankar | Chakraborty | Zonal Head East | Aditya Birla Retail Limited |
| Mr. | L V | Prabhakar | General Manager (PSC,SME & Retail Lending) | Allahabad Bank |
| Mr. | Harsh | Bagla | Managing Director | Amrit Feeds Ltd |
| Mr. | U K V | Raju | Chairman | Ananda Group |
| Mr. | Prakash Kumar | Varthak | Zonal head | Bank of India |
| Mr. | W V | Nagesh | Vice President | Bayer CropScience Limited |
| Mr. | Manoj | Fogla | President | Bengal Rice Mill Association |
| Mr. | Ravi | Todi | Managing Director | Bengal Tools Ltd |
| Mr. | Achyuth | Iyenger | Managing Director | Cargill Feeds & Nutrition Pvt. Ltd |
| Mr. | Madhab | Adhikari | Sr Zonal Manager | Coromandel International Ltd |
| Mr. | Rajesh | Agarwal | Director | Crystal Logistic Cold Chain Ltd. |
| Mr. | Jogendra Singh | Jadon | Regional Business Manager | E.I. Dupont India Pvt Ltd |
| Dr | Balwinder | Bajwa | Business Head | Edward Food Research & Analysis Centre Ltd. (efrac) |
| Mr. | Vinod N | Thacker | Partner | Elmac Agro Industries (I) Pvt. Ltd. |
| Ms. | Siddhima | Thacker | Partner | Elmac Agro Industries (I) Pvt. Ltd. |
| Mr. | Indra Nath | Pyne | Director | Elque & Co |
| Mr. | Manish | Agarwal | Business Head, East | Future Value Retail Ltd. |
| Mr. | Manish | Mimani | Director | Ganesh Grains Ltd |
| Mr. | Sourabh | Bhala | Operation Heads | Godrej Agrovet |
| Mr. | Sita Ram | Sharma | Chairman | Guruji Thandaiwala Pvt Ltd |
| Mr. | Prabhu Shankar | Agarwal | Chairman | Haldiram Bhujiawala Ltd |
| Mr. | Dwijadas | Bandhopadhyay | Managing Director | Herald Food & Commodities (P) Ltd |
| Mr. | Mirza Noor | Rashid | GM-Tea Excellence Centre & Specialty Exports | Hindustan Uniliver Limited |
| Mr. | R K | Paul | Managing Partner | Hindusthan Sweets |
| Mr. | Indraneel | Goho | President & CEO | IFB Agro |
| Mr. | Shanti Swarup | Agarwal | Managing Director | Induss Food Products & Equipments Ltd |
| Mr. | Jayanta | Chakaraborty | Area Manager | Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd |
| Mr. | Amirul | Islam | Managing Director | Jangipur Bengal Mega Food food Park Limited |
| Mr. | S N | Jhunjhunwala | Chairman & Managing Director | JVL Agro Industries Ltd |
| Mr. | Deepak | Chorpra | CEO | JVL Agro Industries Ltd |
| Mr. | Mayank | Jalan | Director | Keventer Agro Ltd. |
| Mr. | S A | Faisal | Managing Director | KGN Enterprise |
| Mr. | Sawantan | Majumder | Manager Corporate Communication | Kirloskar Brothers Limited |
| Mr. | Atul | Churiwal | Managing Director | Krishi Rasayan Exports Pvt. Ltd. |
| Mr. | A K | Ghosh | Partner | Legend Food Industries |
| Mr. | S B | Mukherjee | CEO | Ma Sarada Cold Storage Pvt Ltd. |
| Mr. | Madan Mohan | Maity | Chairman & Managing Director | Maity Poultries Pvt. Ltd. |
| Mr. | Goutam | Malakar | General Manager | Metro Cash & Carry |
| Mr. | S N | Mitra | Chairman & Managing Director | Mida & Company Pvt Ltd |
| Mr. | Aanand | Shrikar | Zonal Head East | Monsanto India Limited |
| Mr. | Raghav | Mundhra | Director | Morarka Organic Foods Limited |
| Shri | R. K | Das | Deputy Director | National Horticulture Board |
| Mr. | Amitava | Dey | Managing Director | Nobile Ice Cream Company |
| Mr. | Arif | Mohammad | Vice President - Agro | Pepsico India Holdings Pvt Limited |
| Ms. | Avanti | Murarka | Director | Potato King Foods |
| Mr. | Shrikant | Goenka | Managing Director | Premier Irrigation Adritec Pvt Ltd |
| Mr. | B S | Mann | Circle Head | Punjab National Bank |
| Mr. | Rajarshi | Banerji | Director | Razban Seafood Ltd. |
| Mr. | Jagannadha Rao | Viswanadha | Manager F&V | Reliance Retail Ltd |
| Mr. | Taj | Mohammed | President | Sea Food Exporters Association, W B Region |
| Mr. | Mohit | Kampani | CEO | Spencers Retail |
| Mr. | Prashant | Kumar | Chief General Manager | State Bank of India |
| Mr. | Subrata | Ray | Proprietor | Suan Scientific Instruments & Equipment |
| Mr. | Arnab | Basu | Director | Switz Foods Pvt Ltd. |
| Mr. | Avnindra | Shah | Commercial Unit Head, India-East | Syngenta India Ltd |
| Mr. | Rohan | Ghosh | President | Tai Industries Limited |
| Mr. | Nishit | Thacker | Director | Thacker Dairy Product Pvt Ltd |
| Mr. | A | Mishra | General Manager , Agriculture and Rural Business | UCO Bank |
| Mr. | Manas | Dhar | General Manager (Priority Sector excl MSME RRB, PMJDY, FI Lead Bank & SLBC) | United Bank of India |
| Mr. | Subit | Roy Chowdhury | Sr Vice President | United Phosphorus Limited |
| Prof. | Biswanath | Bandyopadhyay | Vice Chancellor | Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalay |
| Mr. | S K | Dalmia | CEO | Vinayak Fats & Proteins Pvt Ltd. |
| Mr. | S.N | Agarwal | Director | Yours Food Pvt Ltd |
| Mr. | Sudhakar Rao | Desai | CEO | Emami Biotech Ltd |
Sector Brief – November 2015 
