Day - 1, Friday May 20, 2022 - Time (GMT)

8:30 am onwards - Delegate Registration & Networking

9:30 am - 10:15 am - Inaugural Ceremony

Felicitation of State Partners - TBA

10:15 am - 10:30 am - Special Address: Organic Kernels with low Carbon Footprint Certification Startegies for Processors

• Mr. Nivedh Shetty
  GDIZ, Benin
  (English)

10:30 am - 11:30 am - Current Scenario & Update

Panel 1: State-wise kernel market outlook 2022

• Srivatsava Ganapathy
  cashewinformation.com

• Mr. M Ramakrishnan
  TNCPEA
  (English)
• Mr. Monosish Panda
  OCPA
• Mr. Rohit Zantye
  GCMA
  (English)
• Mr. Urmil Raval
  GCPA
  (English)
• Mr. Vittalroy Kamath
  KCMA
  (English)
• Mr. Suresh Bowlekar
  MCMA
  (Hindi)
• Mr. Anowar Uddin
  BCA
• Representative from Andhra

11:30 am - 12:00 noon - Networking Break

12:00 noon - 1:00 pm - Enhancing Competitiveness

Panel 2: Impossible Trio: Balancing mechanisation, quality & food safety expectations

Mechanisation is imperative for scale and cost competitiveness. However, contamination is a serious challenge introduced by machines. Manual operations, on the other hand, pose food safety challenges and increase costs. How to strike a balance between the three? What are customer’s experience on these?

• Mr. Chetan Shah
  Aadinath Cashew Industry
  (English)
• Mr. C R Selvamani
  TNCPEA
• Dr. B Jacob
  Synergy Systems (Video presentation)
  (English)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Market Access

Panel 3: Innovations in supply chain, retailing, packaging, branding & marketing and their impact

GST disrupted the hub and spoke model. Covid enabled mass migration of processors to retail packing and own branding. How has cashew supply chain evolved in recent times? What is the way forward?

• Mr. Achin Agarwal
  S K B Nuts Pvt Ltd
  (English)

• Mr. Piyush Sarda
  Big Basket
• Mr. Umesh Vachhani
  RK Agro Processing
  (English)
• Mr. Amith Pai
  Amith Cashew Industries
• Mr. Aalok Bhatia
  Jaman Lal Kanhya Lal
• Mr. Sumeet Nahar
  Manak Mewa
• Mr. Solai Sakthivel
  Metro Cash & Carry

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Networking Lunch sponsored by Vishnu Delight

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Structured Buyer-Seller Meetings

6:30 pm onwards - Cocktail Dinner sponsored by Pajsons

Day - 2, Saturday May 21, 2022 - Time (GMT)

9:30 am - 10:00 am - Presentation : Nuts on e-commerce platform: Trends and opportunities

• Mr. Bola Rahul Kamath
  Bolas Agro Pvt Ltd
  (English)

• Ms. Pinky Bhattacharya
  Amazon (Video)
  (English)
• Mr. Satya Singh
  Blinkit

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Buyer-Seller Roundtable

Panel 4: Bridging the expectation gaps

Standardisation of grades, mapping grades to consumer segments, standardisation of packaging, food safety compliance in letter and spirit, dispute resolution, demand unpredictability, price competitiveness

• Mr. Gunjan Jain
  VKC Nuts
  (English)

• Mr. Kalbavi Prakash Rao
  Kalbavi Cashews
• Mr. Sathish Arokiaraj
  TNCPEA
• Mr. Prabhu Shankar Agarwal
  Haldiram Bhujiawala
  Kolkata
• Mr. Srinadh Choudary
  ITC Limited
• Mr. Dilip Mohanty
  Reliance Retail (Video)

11:00 am - 11:30 am - Networking Break

11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Increasing Value of Kernels

Panel Discussion 5: Value addition opportunities in Cashew

• Mr. Ravindra Mehta
  Class Alzone Pvt. Ltd.
  (English)

• Mr. Manish Aggarwal
  Bikano
• Mr. Vikas Nahar
  Happilo
• Mr. Aaditya Bajaj
  Bajaj Foods
  (English)
• Mr. Anoop Bector
  Bector Foods
• Mr. Sanjeev Sethi
  Frontier Biscuit
• Mr. Deepta Gupta
  Indiyum Foods
  (English)

12:30 pm - 12:45 pm - Presentation 3: Financing the cashew value chain

• Mr. Tirthankar Mahato
  Kotak Mahindra Bank
  (English)

12:45 pm - 1:00 pm - Presentation 4: NSE SME Platform and how can cashew value chain participants use it?

• Ms. Rachana Bhusari
  National Stock Exchange
  (English)

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm - Wrap-up and setting action plan for 2022-23 State association presidents