Engineers who have run the businesses we advise.
AgPro Consulting was founded on a simple premise: the best agri-consulting is done by people who carried the quota, signed the invoices, and walked the farm. Our partners are those people.
From the operating seat to the advisory seat.
AgPro’s founders spent 28+ years inside multinational agribusinesses — running P&Ls, closing regulators’ doors, signing dealer agreements, commissioning plants, and watching the slow compounding of share and margin that distinguishes a genuinely well-run agri-enterprise from one that merely looks like one. That experience is the single thing we trade on.
We founded AgPro in 2018 to bring that operator depth to the consulting seat — because we had spent years on the receiving end of decks written by people who had never stood inside the operating context they were advising. The advisory work most agri enterprises actually need is not generic strategy. It’s judgment under constraint. Our founding bet was that there was demand for a firm that scoped its engagements around outcomes, priced them per deliverable, and staffed them with partners who had carried the same role as the client.
Seven years in, that bet has held. AgPro has run engagements across farm machinery, crop protection, food processing, horticulture, dairy, and agtech — from multinational India entries to Indian growth-stage transformations and PE / VC investment theses. Our headcount remains deliberately small. Our engagements are scoped narrowly. And every piece of work is still led personally by a partner who has operated in the sector.
Vision and Mission
A professionalised Indian agri-enterprise — run with the rigour of modern business and the conscience of lived agricultural wisdom.
To deliver advisory, regulatory, and talent work that moves an agri business forward in measurable ways — and widens the margin for the farmer at the end of the chain.
Four differentiators.
- Engineer-leaders, not pitch-writers
- Every engagement is led by a partner who has carried the operating seat they now advise. Domain depth before domain jargon.
- Cross-border corridors, on the ground
- Engagements span IN, US, EU, and APAC; local teams embedded in Pune and New Delhi; partners across target markets from supplier sites to regulator offices.
- Growth that compounds past the boardroom
- Every outcome is scoped for the enterprise but evaluated on whether it widens the margin for the farmer at the end of the value chain. Shareholders and soil.
- Fixed-fee, scoped, transparent
- No running clocks, no contingent retainers, no volume plays. Every engagement carries a written outcome, a fixed fee, and a partner named to the work.
The people who lead every engagement.
Portraits are being commissioned; the monograms below sit in each partner’s slot until real photography lands.
Founding director with a career spanning multinational agri-inputs, mechanisation, and food-processing leadership. Engineer-first, operator-second — and the author of AgPro’s Agri-Fit Assessment.
Leads our regulatory and homologation practice. Deep experience across CIBRC dossiers, FSSAI filings, and APAC export-compliance for crop-protection portfolios.
Leads sourcing, supply-chain, and food-processing engagements. Prior operating roles across aggregation networks, cold-chain design, and export corridors.
How we run the firm.
- Say it plain
- We write plans in language an operating team can read without a consulting glossary. No synergy. No leverage as a verb.
- Honest no, not a soft yes
- If we can’t help, we say so inside the first call. If the engagement should be declined mid-stream, we decline it — and refund the retainer tranche.
- One partner, end-to-end
- The partner who scopes the work leads the work. No junior-analyst hand-off, no mystery deck reveal at the end.
- The farmer at the margin
- Every enterprise outcome we advise ends with a farmer. We don’t forget whose land we’re standing on.
Pune · New Delhi
Two offices, working alongside each other. Partners are in both. Field engagements run across India; corridor work runs across IN, US, EU, and APAC.