Who Actually Exhibits at India's Potato Summit?
Ask us about a stallEmail usA summit's scale is usually described in numbers — exhibitors, countries, delegates. The more useful question for anyone weighing a stall is narrower: who actually builds on that floor, and what does their stand say about why they came?
These are stands from Global Potato Summit 2025, held on 11 and 12 December at the India Expo Mart, Greater Noida, and closing on the 13th with live farm demonstrations and a field visit. They cover the three groups that make up this floor: the companies that build the machinery, the companies that process potato, and the companies that supply the seed.
Fry & Bake Technologies
The stand that was busiest when we walked it. A processing line running along one side, a product wall behind — Hi-Dry, Frites Intense, Hydro-cutter, Conti-Blanch — and enough people in front of it that you had to wait to reach the machine. The visitors in this frame are not all Indian, which is the point of a stand like this: turnkey potato processing sells across borders, and the floor is where those conversations start.
Five people on the stand at once. Equipment is not sold off a brochure — it is sold by someone who can answer what happens at 3 tonnes an hour.
Four stall numbers run together on one fascia — D20.21.20A.21A. The corner is built around a seated meeting area rather than a machine, with process footage running on the back wall.
The processors
A full brand build for Hungritos — premium, fiery and crinkle-cut fries on screen, seating, a mascot. This is a consumer brand presenting to trade.
Four stall numbers taken together, in Ohh! Potato yellow. The board lists the frozen range — fries, wedges, paratha, samosa — and potato flakes alongside it.
A modest two-panel stall, A-4 and A-5, working hard: six product lines across the back wall and a certifications board covering APEDA, FSSAI and ISO.
Siddhi Vinayak Agri Processing, on a corner plot with signage on two faces. Product boards are in Hindi as well as English — the audience here includes growers.
The other machinery builders
Stalls D-12 and D-14 combined. A wall-sized screen runs grading line footage, and the boards behind cover cold storage and pre-processing lines for fries, chips and flakes.
The seed and supply side
A double-fronted build given over to explaining a process rather than selling a product: seed multiplication and contract farming, laid out as a production flow across the back wall.
What the floor tells a prospective exhibitor
Three things are visible in these stands that no attendance figure conveys.
- Stall size is not the whole signal. Goodrich took two panels and used them for six product lines and a certifications wall. Iscon Balaji built a brand environment. Both drew on the same footfall.
- Machinery sells sitting down. Both equipment builders devoted much of their floor to seating and a screen, because the conversation is long and technical.
- The audience is mixed, and the stands know it. Hindi product boards on a processor's stand are not decoration — they are a decision about who is expected to walk up.
The awards
Presented on the opening day. The full list of recipients — lifetime achievement, processing, export, seed, women in industry and farmer categories — is in our complete list of the 2025 award winners.
Photographs supplied by the Global Potato Summit organiser and used with their permission.
The 2026 edition
Global Potato Summit 2026 runs on 16 and 17 December at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar — a move from Greater Noida into Gujarat, which puts the floor inside the country's frozen-fry heartland. Dates, stall costs and what is still unannounced are in our Global Potato Summit 2026 guide, and the GPS 2026 event page is where to register interest.
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