EIMA Agrimach India 2025: India Must Shift to Green Fuel Agri-Tech in Next 5–10 Years, Says Agriculture Secretary Devesh Chaturvedi
27 November 2025, New Delhi: Dr. Devesh Chaturvedi, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, called on the agriculture industry to play a decisive role in shaping India’s Vision 2047 by accelerating the shift toward green-fuel-based mechanisation and designing gender-neutral farm equipment that reduces the workload of women farmers.
Speaking at the 9th International Exhibition & Conference on Agri-Machinery, Equipment & Agri-tech Solutions at EIMA Agrimach India 2025, organised by FICCI and Italian agricultural industry body FEDERUNACOMA in association with the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Chaturvedi stressed the need for an urgent transition. He said, “Over the next 5–10 years, we should move our technologies toward green fuels, whether electrically operated tractors or machines powered by compressed biogas (CBG) from rural CBG plants. This shift will lower both maintenance and operational costs for farmers. Our schemes will increasingly prioritise green-fuel-based technologies. I urge our Italian industry counterparts to collaborate in this area.”
Highlighting the central role of women farmers in achieving national agricultural goals, he urged the industry to take gender budgeting seriously and produce equipment designed to reduce women’s drudgery. With the United Nations declaring 2026 the International Year of Women Farmers, he emphasised that real gender-responsive mechanisation goes beyond ownership. “Most difficult agricultural tasks are performed by women. We need more gender-friendly equipment, manual or motorized, that genuinely eases their workload,” he noted.
India and Italy deepen cooperation
Italian Ambassador to India, Antonio Bartoli, said efforts are underway to establish an Agriculture Attache at the Italian Embassy in New Delhi to strengthen bilateral cooperation. “We already have around 20 companies with production facilities here and want to increase this number. The Prime Ministers of both countries recently met on the sidelines of the G20 in Rome, where Premier Meloni proposed a new benchmark to reach EUR 20 billion in trade by the end of our Joint Strategic Action Plan. We must work towards that,” he said.
T. R. Kesavan, Chairman, Organizing Committee of EIMA Agrimach India and Board Director and Group President at TAFE, underlined the need to promote agriculture as a service, particularly for equipment such as seeders that farmers use only for a few days a year. A structured service model, he said, could significantly expand access and affordability. Industry discussions with the Agriculture Ministry on this have already begun.
Simona Rapastella, Director General, FEDERUNACOMA, pointed to the strong growth potential in India’s mechanisation sector. Citing the Italian Trade Agency (ICE), she noted that the Indian market, valued at USD 13.7 billion in 2023, is expected to reach USD 31.6 billion by 2033, reflecting an annual growth rate of about 9 percent. Italian and Indian collaborations through production facilities, partnerships and trade will be central to this expansion, she added. Federunacoma’s export planning also projects significant increases in bilateral imports and exports.
Report calls for pay-per-use model
The event also saw the release of the FICCI PwC report titled Farm Mechanisation: The Path Towards a Future-Ready India. Shashi Kant Singh, Partner, PwC, advocated a transition from individual ownership to a pay-per-use model to speed up the adoption of modern machinery.
Sabrina Mangialavori, Deputy Trade Commissioner, Italian Trade Agency, observed rising demand among Indian farmers for solutions in tillage, sowing, irrigation, crop protection and threshing. Subroto Geed, Co-Chairman, FICCI National Agriculture Committee and President, South Asia, Corteva Agriscience, stressed the urgency of mechanisation to support the world’s growing population, expected to reach 1000 crore by 2050, with India contributing the largest share.
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