AGRI INVO
Gives early-stage agri-tech startups a grant-in-aid of up to ₹25 lakh in seed-stage funding alongside an eight-week incubation programme with mentorship and market access.
Startups accepted into AGRI INVO join an eight-week incubation run by the ANGRAU Poshan Incubator, working alongside industry experts, subject mentors, academicians and funding institutions under one roof. Beyond mentorship, the incubator helps develop each startup's commercial strategy, provides network platforms, and gives in-house technical support to help a prototype-stage product move toward …
AGRI INVO is for startups with an innovative product, service or business model at Minimum Viable Product stage in agriculture and allied sectors, ready to be commercialised. Eligible focus areas span agricultural biotechnology, natural resource management, micro-irrigation, seed production, agri-clinics and farm health services, post-harvest technology, farm retailing, horticulture, organic farming, bio-agents and bio-fertilisers, secondary agriculture, supply-chain management, waste-to-wealth, frontier agricultural technologies, precision farming, agricultural extension services, food processing, farm mechanisation and agricultural engineering, agri input tools and technology, and ICT, IoT, AI, ML and big-data applications in agriculture.
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