Onesto Agri's home ground, and the sector most exposed to the EU's new deforestation rules.
Book a 30-minute callEuropean agri-input, seed technology and precision-farming companies are looking at a market that crossed $370 billion in 2024 and is compounding toward $500 billion-plus by 2032. The seed sector alone, at $8.6 billion and growing near 10 percent a year, reflects a structural shift toward hybrid and climate-resilient varieties that domestic breeders can't yet fully supply. Onesto Agri already operates inside this market, so European partners get a working entry point rather than a standing start.
Indian exporters of coffee, cocoa, rubber, soy, palm oil, wood and cattle-derived products, and the finished goods made from them, sit inside the EU's Deforestation Regulation, and nearly $1.3 billion of that trade is directly exposed. Large and medium exporters had to prove deforestation-free, geolocation-traceable sourcing by December 2025; smaller exporters have until June 2026. The commodities themselves usually aren't the deforestation risk in India's case, the traceability paperwork is, most supply chains simply haven't digitised the plot-level data the regulation demands.
Seed sales and agri-input registration run through India's National Seed Policy and Seeds Act framework, with FSSAI oversight covering processed and packaged agricultural products sold domestically.
EUDR is the operative regulation here, not CBAM, agriculture sits outside CBAM's scope entirely. Compliance means geolocation coordinates, production dates and a documented risk assessment for every consignment, a shift from certificate-based assurance to consignment-level digital proof that most Indian exporters' supply chains weren't built for.