Are Cancer-Causing Pesticides Hidden in Your Food? | Ft. Shreedhar Bhat | Business Giseness
This episode of Business Giseness features Shreedhar Bhat, Founder of Scalion Commerce Pvt. Ltd., an Agritech SaaS company focused on improving traceability, authenticity, and transparency across the agricultural supply chain. The discussion explores food safety, counterfeit products, pesticide concerns, and how technologies such as blockchain, IoT, and digital traceability can build greater trust from farm to consumer.
Episode Description
How can technology make the journey from farm to plate more transparent, traceable, and
trustworthy?
This episode of Business Giseness features Shreedhar Bhat, Founder of Scalion Commerce Pvt. Ltd., an Agritech
SaaS company working to improve agricultural supply chains through technology. His work focuses on areas such as food traceability, farm management, anti-counterfeiting, compliance, supply-chain transparency, and agri-trade.
The discussion looks at some of the key challenges surrounding the food we consume - from understanding where agricultural products originate to identifying counterfeit products and improving visibility throughout the supply chain.
Shreedhar shares his perspective on how digital traceability can connect different stages of agriculture and food production while giving businesses and consumers greater confidence in product authenticity. The conversation also touches on technologies such as blockchain, IoT, computer vision, and digital product identification, and how they
can contribute to a more accountable agricultural ecosystem.
Beyond food safety and technology, the episode explores the realities of building an Agritech SaaS business in India.
It highlights the challenges of developing technology for farmers, agri-businesses, exporters, food companies, and other stakeholders while addressing practical problems across a complex supply chain.
At its core, this is a conversation about technology, agriculture, entrepreneurship, and trust - and how better access to reliable information can help create a more transparent journey from the farm to the consumer.
