<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Webinar on Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Pro-cessing Industries in the State of Maharashtra: Gap - Chal-lenges - Opportunities & Way Forward</b></p>

        <p style='text-align:justify;'>ASSOCHAM\'s Western Region has organised a webinar on 13th August, 2020. Theme of the webinar was<b> "Impact of Covid-19 on Agro and Food Processing Industries in the State of Maharashtra: Gap - Challenges - Opportunities & Way Forward"</b></p>

        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>SPEAKERS AT THE WEBINAR</b></p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderator: Shri Dhaval Raval,</b> Chairman Food Processing Committee, AS-SOCHAM Gujarat Council & CMD, Abhyuday Group</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Eminent Speakers were</b></p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Shri R. Ravindra,</b> Deputy General Manager and Regional Head, APEDA</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Shri Vijay Chole, </b>Vice President, Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd.</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Shri Sandeep Sonawane,</b> Chairman, Sambha Agro</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> - Shri Aviruk Chakraborty, </b>Founder & CEO, Archeron Group</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Dr Omkar Hari Mali,</b> Founder President, Udyami Maharashtra</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Shri Ritwik Bahuguna, </b>Partner, Wazir Advisors</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Shri Rajaram Sangle, </b>Director, Sangle Agro Processing Pvt. Ltd.</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>- Shri Bhushan Nikam, </b>Chairman & MD, Agrocare Group of Companies</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>SUMMARY OF WEBINAR</b></p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>The Session was moderated by Shri Dhaval Raval,</b> Chairman Food Processing Committee, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Council & CMD, Abhyuday Group. Shri Dhaval Raval also delivered the opening note of the webinar.</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>The Session was then addressed by <b>Shri R. Ravindra,</b> Deputy General Manager and Regional Head, APEDA He helped the session with the better understanding of Govt. policies and perspective taking account the loss occurred in Agro-Food Sector due to pandemic. Another Speaker <b>Shri Ritwik Bahuguna,</b> Partner, Wazir Advisors, gave the highlights on the needs of agro-food consumer in today&apos;s time and how much hard the COVID has impacted the Agro industry at large. Followed by another speaker <b>Shri Aviruk Chakraborty,</b> Founder & CEO, Archeron Group. Shri Aviruk shared insights on how well Artificial Intelligence is doing in helping farmers - doubling their income. Also, he focused on all the technological advancement in Agro-Food sector. After Shri Aviruk, session was addressed by another speaker <b>Shri Vijay Chole,</b> Vice President, Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. Shri Vijay&apos;s whole address was on paving the new roadmap for Agro-Food Industry, recovering from COVID. He shared his experience on efficiently managing mega food park amidst pandemic.</p>
        
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri Sandeep Sonawane,</b> another speaker for the session and Chairman, Sambha Agro shared his timely thoughts on the various helpful methods which are practiced by the local farmers of Maharashtra to reduce the impact of COVID and giving upthrust to the Agro-Food sector. This was followed by<b> Shri Rajaram Sangle.</b> Shri Sangle is Director at Sangle Agro Processing Pvt. Ltd. He also supported the thoughts of Shri Sandeep and shared the collective experiences of the local farmers community from Maharashtra. Another speaker<b>Shri Bhushan Nikam,</b> Chairman & MD, Agrocare Group of Companies threw light upon how his organisation is helping farmers to sup-port them financially amidst of this pandemic. The farmers are helped with not only finances but the families of farmers who committed suicide were taken well care of. This session was joined and addressed by the last speaker of the session <b>Dr Omkar Hari Mali.</b> Dr Omkar Mali is a Founder President of Udyami Maharashtra. Dr Mali highlighted the disturbance observed in the import and export of Agro-Food and how this can be managed in better terms. He also revealed the concrete roadmap to retract economics involved in Agro-Food Sector.</p>