I Support Farming i s an agriculture company working towards promoting agriculture and enhancing the livelihood of farmers, especially the small and marginal. We strive towards making every farmer a successful person in his / her business of agriculture. We join hands with the farmers and form a business partnership in order to help them over come their agribusiness challenges. We also help them widen their business scope and achieve maximum productivity by integrating various other business
7. Working capital
challenges due to
poor economic
status
Low
Mechanisation
due to small
land holdings
and heavy
capital costs
We provide our
machineries free
of rentals to our
farmers
All working
capital is
provided by us to
the farmers as
inputs
8. Low production
and productivity
High
production
costs and low
margins
We consolidate all
our sales and
purchases to get
better negotiation
power
We provide farm
advisory through
our field officers
who are agri
graduates
10. 1
Great Interest in Agriculture
and enhancing the livelihood
of farmers
Interest to produce own food
Ability to invest and capital
availability
Unable to identify a reliable
medium that could connect to
farmers
Urban people are the end
consumers of all farm produce
High awareness on food
quality and middlemen
charges
The Urban Scenario
11. A bridge that
connects urban
with the rural
farmers
Platform for
urban people to
partner with
rural farmers
Opportunity for
urban society to
take up farming
directly
Conducts all
farming activities
on behalf of
urban investors
Farmers get the
capital to conduct
farming activities
Our Business
We Connect the Two Worlds
Urban + Rural
13. 10K
25K
7K
17K
AIR Agri - Investments - Returns
- Investment arm of the organization that
- Deals with urbanites who have interest in farming
- Provides the urbanites with an option to invest in a crop of their
choice to get returns in their agri investments.
14. i-Grow
- Production component consisting of
field operations to produce agri and
livestock output by a partnership
model with farmers
- Includes 4 departments
- Green Line – Growing crops
- Red Line – Growing livestock
- Blue Line – Growing aqua
- White Line – Dairy
- Utilises the investments of the urban
people received via AIR and uses it
for farming
15. - Technology Platform and mobile app to
connect farm operations and urban
investors
- Serves as a gateway for urbanites
investors to see their investments’
performance.
- The farm enterprise management solution
provides the data for farm tracking
- Provides real-time data on crops and
livestock
0 10 20
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
16. - A direct to consumer retail outlet and
sales channel for all produce of i-Grow
- Brick and Mortar outlets
- Plans to go online www.farmerstores.com
20. Business Plan – 2017-18 and Beyond
0.20
3%
Loss
2017-18 6.2
4.7
0.8
5%
Profit
2018-19 22.1
17.5
3.0
7%
Profit
2019-20 51.9
39.2
8.4
9%
Profit
2020-21 120.3
92.6
FOUNDATION PHASE
Increase Subscribers – Go Mass
EXPANSION PHASE
Focus Revenue - Diversify
NATIONAL REACH
Expand to other
states
BIG LEAP
IPO/VC/Angel Exit
22. Vijayakumar Mani
Co-Founder & Director
Vasanthkumar Mani
Co-Founder & Director
The Brains behind iSupport Farming
Founding Team
An engineer by academics, a recruiter by profession and an
hardcore entrepreneur by passion with more than 10 Years
experience in IT Industry.
Founded an executive search firm – Vista Hire Consultants,
focusing predominantly on Startups & management consulting
firms.
Actively involved in Agriculture activities like farming, goat
rearing, shrimp cultures etc.
Co-Founded & invested in companies like F1 Farms LLP,
PayCheck Alpha.
An agriculture grad with 15+ Years of experience in
Software Industry & more than 12 Years in Digital
Marketing and strategies. Actively involved in
farming, Agriculture, Goat & Shrimp culture.
Co-Founded & Invested in F1 Farms LLP & Lead
Advisor to Vista Hire Consultants
23. Our Key Members
Meet Our Brilliant Teams
Anirudh CV
Strategic Partner – ISF AP
MBA from Indian School of
Business. Worked as a part
of Official representative of
the Economic Development
Board, AP Govt
MANIKUMAR
RM, Avanti Group
A marine biologist with
extensive experience for
over 25 years in Prawn
farming and aquaculture.
23
LAKSHMI NARAYANAN
Ex-Vice Chairman, Cognizant
Began his career in TCS as
Developer an rose to a rank
of a Business Leader. Joined
CTS as CTO and became CEO
& President untill 2006
CHANDRASEKRAN R
Executive Vice Chairman,
Cognizant
CTS Veteran with more than
30+ Yrs exp managed Billion
Dollar Business
25. Marketing Plan
Digital Marketing
Use of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, email
campaigns, primarily to increase brand
awareness and generate prospects
Direct Marketing
Participation in events, direct face to face
meetings, print, digital Advertisements, PR
and press coverage
Partnerships
Partnering with FM Radios, NGOs,
Associations and other influential media
Branded Events
Events conducted by ISF like Farm days,
awareness programs, school events etc
27. Sourcing Farmers
How do we get farmers?
Lead Farmer Approach
We identify a lead farmer in a village
and make him the champion to
spread the idea and convince farmers
across the village
Agency / Input partners
We partner with a leading input
store in the locality to approach
farmers and the store acts as our
input supplier
Government
Departments
Using the officials of the
department of agriculture and
rural development
Institutional Partners
NGOs and organizations like
NABARD that have developed a
relationship via schemes with
farmers are partnered with.
28. Evaluating Farmers
How do we identify the right farmer?
01
02
03
Personal Evaluation
Past Performance
A scoring method,
considering various
parameters of farmers
and his experience in
farming
Farmer Score
Farming Experience
Social Credibility
Financial Credibility
04
05
Land factors
06