Opportunity brief
Overview
A national-level case competition under Agrifest 2.0, designed to challenge undergraduate students through a real-world business case involving strategic decision-making, agri-business, operations, finance, and brand risk.
Description
The Sutlej Reckoning presents participants with a comprehensive business case based on Sutlej Harvest Foods Ltd. (SHFL), a fictional agri-business operating across grain trading, flour milling, branded foods, farm inputs, and a data platform.
Participants will face a live product-quality crisis, working-capital pressure, operational challenges, procurement decisions, brand-risk concerns, and a strategic Board-level decision about the future direction of the business.
Participants must analyse the case, identify the key issues and hidden values within the case, make strategic and quantitative decisions, and develop a clear recommendation for the Board.
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to UG college students.
- Participants may participate individually or as a team.
- Minimum Team Size: 1 participant
- Maximum Team Size: 2 participants
- Each participant can register with only one team.
- Multiple submissions by the same participant/team are not allowed.
Rules & Regulations
- The competition will consist of one round only.
- Participants will receive one comprehensive case.
- The case must be analysed and solved within the given submission window.
- Participants must prepare a presentation based on their case solution.
- The presentation must be submitted through the designated submission platform before the deadline.
- Submission Deadline: 15 September 2026
- Inter-team members are not allowed; a participant cannot be part of more than one team.
- Inter-specialisation team members are not allowed; all members of a team must belong to the same specialisation.
- The submitted solution must be the original work of the registered participant/team.
- Plagiarism or substantially copied submissions will lead to disqualification.
- Only the final submitted entry will be considered for evaluation.
- Late submissions will not be accepted, except in an officially confirmed platform-wide technical issue.
- The organising committee's decision regarding eligibility, disqualification, evaluation, and interpretation of rules will be final.
Guidelines
- Number of Rounds: 1
- Number of Cases/Questions: 1 comprehensive case
- Participants must solve the given case and present their proposed solution.
The solution should demonstrate:
- Strategic diagnosis
- Quantitative reasoning
- Operational decision-making
- Procurement strategy
- Crisis management
- Capital allocation
- Strategic recommendations
- Clear Board-level presentation
Participants should focus on case-specific reasoning rather than simply applying textbook frameworks.
All decisions and recommendations should be logically consistent with the analysis.
Concise, evidence-based, and well-structured presentations are encouraged.
Submission
Participants are required to:
Analyse → Solve → Prepare Presentation → Submit
The completed presentation must be submitted through the designated platform on or before 15 September 2026.