India’s agriculture and food ecosystem is vast and dynamic, contributing nearly 20% to GDP and employing over 40% of the workforce. Yet, it is constrained by structural inefficiencies and climate vulnerability, with smallholder farmers bearing the brunt. Each segment highlights both the scale of opportunity and the developmental gaps that must be addressed:

Agri Inputs
- Scale/Potential: A large and growing market essential for improving farm productivity across India’s ~150 million smallholders.
- Context & Impact: Despite this scale, access to affordable, climate-smart inputs remains limited. Reliance on traditional methods leads to low yields, soil degradation, and heightened climate risk.
Agri Tech
- Scale/Potential: Rapidly expanding sector leveraging digital solutions to enhance efficiency, transparency, and farmer inclusion.
- Context & Impact: Penetration remains shallow in rural India. Smallholders face acute information gaps and limited access to finance and markets, directly suppressing incomes and resilience.
Circular Economy
- Scale/Potential: Rising importance in managing Agri-waste, reducing emissions, and generating value-added products.
- Context & Impact: Agriculture contributes significantly to India’s waste and GHG emissions, yet recycling and waste-to-value initiatives are underdeveloped. Without scale-up, inefficiencies will intensify, worsening both environmental and livelihood risks.
Storage & Logistics
- Scale/Potential: Critical enabler to reduce India’s 15–20% post-harvest losses and stabilize food supply chains.
- Context & Impact: Infrastructure gaps especially in cold chain and warehousing result in wasted produce and lost farmer incomes. Smallholders are disproportionately affected due to their limited bargaining power and access.
Food Services
- Scale/Potential: A high-growth segment fueled by urbanization, lifestyle shifts, and evolving dietary preferences.
- Context & Impact: Sustainable sourcing and traceable supply chains are weak, risking inequitable value capture and disconnect between urban markets and rural producers.

Overall Problem Statement:
While India’s agri-food sector presents immense scale and growth potential across inputs, technology, circular economy, logistics, and food services, developmental gaps persist at every stage of the value chain. These gaps disproportionately affect smallholder farmers and are magnified by climate change. Bridging them with climate-resilient, smallholder-focused solutions is essential to unlock productivity, stabilize incomes, reduce waste, and align India’s agri-food ecosystem with global sustainability goals.

Vivriti Agri Impact Bond Fund

Vivriti Agri Impact Bond Fund