Name		Profession
	Prof. MS Swaminathan		Pioneer of India’s Green Revolution and 1st World Food Prize Laureate
1	Mr. Ajay Singh, IAS		Agriculture Production Commisioner, Govt. Of Chattisgarh
2	Mr. Ravi Verma		Member of Parliament
3	Dr. RB Singh		Chancellor, Central Agricultural University
4	Mr. Ashok Sharma		President, Mahindra Agri Soltion Ltd.
5	Mr. Ajit Jain		Managing Director, Jain Irrigation System Ltd.
6	Mr. Siraj Choudhry		Chairman, Cargill India Ltd.
7	Mr. Jai Shroff		Managing Director, UPL Limited
8	Prof. Karim Maredia		Director Africa Partnership Program, Michigan State University
9	Mr. Kapil Mehan		Group CEO, Adventz India Limited
10	Mr. B.S Soundarajan		Chairman, Suguna Foods Ltd.
11	Dr. Purvi Mehta		South Asia Head – Agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
12	Mr. N G Hegde		Chairman, Emiritus, BAIF Development, Research Foundation
13	Dr. Maharaj Muthoo		President, Roman Forum and Chair, INBAR Global Board
14	Professor Kadambot Siddique		Director – Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth
15	Dr. KL Chadha		President – Horticulture Society of India
16	Salil Singhal		Chairman and MD, PI Industries Ltd
17	Dr. PK Joshi		South Asia Director, IFPRI
18	Mr. RS Sodhi		Managing Director, AMUL
19	Mr. Ram Mudholkar		Director, South Asia, EI DuPont India P Ltd
20	Mr. RPS Gandhi		Chairman, Green Valley Biotech Private Limited, Punjab

ICFA is a national level platform in India with a mandate for policy research, advocacy and enterprise development in food and agriculture sector. Besides, ICFA is engaged in business and trade facilitation, farm services and providing a platform for global partnerships. ICFA emerged out of the long felt need for a comprehensive approach to address issues in food and agriculture sector and tapping of emerging global business opportunities overcoming compartmentalized approach and absence of coordination and dialogue among various stake-holders. Currently in India, various stakeholders in the food and agriculture sector like the national and state governments, policy makers, research and academic bodies, extension agencies, value addition industry, NGOs, financial bodies, developmental institutions and farmers groups think in silos, often with contradictory approaches for the same ultimate cause. ICFA aims to foster convergence and greater communication between different stakeholders and work towards bringing India aggressively into the loop of global trade and commerce. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, ICFA has drawn in the vast experience and expertise of a number of professionals cutting across various subsectors in the food and agriculture sector and has constituted a number of working groups and national councils to represent the interests of various stakeholders. It has also incorporated several state specific working groups

Indian Council of Food and Agriculture is working as the apex policy think tank, trade facilitation body and development enterprise for food and agriculture sector in India and serving as global platform for partnerships. With the increasing globalization, there are newer challenges emerging, which need to be proactively addressed for India’s Food and Agriculture sector to grow, engage and compete globally and contribute towards food and nutritional security. ICFA through its outreach policy and business agenda and global partnerships is creating opportunities for growth, value addition and trade to help improve the income of farmers. The Council through its sector focused Working Groups, State and District Chapters, National Councils and country specific Joint Business Councils, seeks to represent the interests of all the stakeholders at the national level on one hand and position India's food and agriculture sector globally on the other hand.

Besides the trade and industry, ICFA focuses equally on farmers and agri-entrepreneurs towards helping them connect with the market opportunities, while addressing their policy, technology, trade, marketing, financing and partnership related needs. One of the major issues facing Indian food and agriculture sector is the issue of food safety, traceability and certification of GAP and quality standards of food, impacting Indian exports and trade, and consumer safety. ICFA has taken up agriculture stewardship and national certification program, focussing especially on the agriculture produce meant for nutrition and health sectors, retail and processing purpose and for exports. ICFA is also promoting investments, entrepreneurships and technologies in farm sector by forging global partnerships with right institutions and by taking up projects, training and facilitating farmers producer organizations and agri start-up ventures to accelerate growth in farmers’ incomes, productivity and agribusinesses.

With rapidly expanding opportunities in Indian food and agriculture sector and its growth story in the last one decade, there is increased interest among the major countries of the World to engage with India and explore opportunities for investments, trade and cooperation. There has been long felt need for a dedicated body to facilitate such engagements through Joint Business Councils with various countries while promoting agri-produce from Indian States and guiding them on investments, marketing and policy issues. India also needs institutional mechanism at the States and district levels, wherein various stakeholders could meet and deliberate upon issues and agenda to unleash the potential of agriculture. ICFA promises to provide that mechanism through services platforms, and state and district chapters