ITC Agri Business Division is encouraging the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants to expand the conglomerate's presence in the fast-growing health and wellness products market in the food, personal care and other categories. The agri-division of ITC is working with farmers and helping them to diversify their crops by encouraging them to cultivate high-demand crops like Ashwagandha, Tulsi, and Kalonji in Madhya Pradesh and turmeric in southern states. Through this initiative, ITC looks to meet its requirements by chasing its FMCG ambitions and also leverages the B2B nutraceuticals space, bridging the demand-supply gap in the market, which has evolved rapidly after the pandemic. "As a part of the ITC Next strategy, the company's Agri-Business Division has pivoted its strategic focus towards rapidly scaling up its value-added Agri Products (VAAP) portfolio to accelerate growth and competitiveness. In line with the larger ITC NextGen Agriculture vision, we are focusing on ...
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ITC is expanding its network of FPOs, further aiming to connect one crore farmers in the next 4-5 years and scaling up sourcing of fruits and vegetables through this platform, said its Agri Business Division CEO S Ganesh. ITC, present in around 22 states through FPOs (Farmer Producer Organizations) and working on 20 crops, has plans to expand and deepen it further in states including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Bihar. Besides, ITC is working on expanding the reach of its super app MAARS -- a phygital' initiative with FPOs through which it is providing personalised advisories to farmers from weather forecast to sales of crops at mandi prices, supply of seeds and fertiliser and services as soil testing to helping them get credit from banks. Through MAARS (Metamarket for Advanced Agriculture Rural Services), ITC is also enhancing agricultural practices to small farmers through technology aggregation, AI-enabled solutions, AgTech and an e-marketplace for commodities
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On the bourses, ITC stock has rallied 14.1 per cent over the past month. The stock hit an all-time high of Rs 510.60 on July 24, 2024. This was the first instance of ITC stock crossing Rs 500-mark.
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ITC hit an over five-month high of Rs 454.05, up 2 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday's intraday deal. ITC stock was trading at its highest level since January 29, 2024
ITC's latest annual report shows that its foods business clocked sales of Rs 17,194.5 crore in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024
The addition in the eight-figure bracket reflects the scale of ITC's operations and spread in newer categories
The Indian economy is likely to sustain its high growth trajectory in FY2024-25, driven by strong momentum in fixed investments and a pickup in private consumption, said conglomerate ITC in its latest annual report. Besides, there are "green shoots of recovery in rural markets", improving employment conditions and sustained momentum in manufacturing and services sectors, which augur well for consumption demand in the near term, it added. The growth would also be supported by a good Rabi harvest and normal monsoons, according to the ITC annual report for FY 2023-24. "India continues to be acknowledged as one of the fastest growing major economies in the world with significant headroom for growth over the medium and long-term benefiting from a slew of purposeful interventions over several years," it added. Factors like favourable demographic profile, increasing affluence, rapid urbanisation and accelerated digital adoption represent some of the key structural drivers of growth of the