Youngest entrant from the agriculture industry featured in ‘Hurun India Rich list 2022’

India, 04th October 2022: At 32, Agam Khare,  Founder and CEO of Absolute, becomes the youngest Ag bioscience entrepreneur to be featured in the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List, 2022. Agam sits at 987 position currently with a worth of 1100crore.

Absolute leverages billions of years of evolutionary biology harnessing nature’s intelligence to transform the performance of agriculture worldwide. The company operates across 16 countries today across it’s global trade, frontier farm inputs & ag cloud business. It also operates one of the world’s largest plant science R&D spread across 50L sq feet. Agam is a visionary entrepreneur who aims to solve someof the most pressing challenges humanity faces today – starting with abundant safe food for the world.

Prior, Agam ran India’s leading Industrial Robotics and Factory Automation company working across various sectors – Food & Beverage, Pharma, Auto, Oil &  Gas, Steel & Cement, etc. Agam also worked closely with the 11th President of India & World-Renowned Scientist- Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on building moonshot innovations to solve some of the grandest challenges faced by humanity which inspired him to start Absolute.

The list also includes Manish V Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director, Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd, Vivek Saraogi, Balarampur Chini Mills Ltd and Kanubhai Jivatram Thakkar, Gokul Agro Resources from the agriculture industry.

The Hurun India Rich List, includes self-made Indian entrepreneurs aged 40 and under with a fortune of Rs 1,000 crore. It saw 15 new entrants, all of whom are startup founders. The cumulative wealth of the entrants in 40 & Under Self-made List has increased by 11% in comparison to last year, currently standing at Rs 1,83,700 crore highlighting the increasing rate of entrepreneurship that exists in the ecosystem.