RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri-Business Incubation
Grants Indian agri-startups a 90% pre-seed grant, then up to Rs. 25 lakh at seed stage.
RKVY-RAFTAAR Agri-Business Incubation is a grant scheme from the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, run through R-ABI at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, for Indian startups and agripreneurs with technology, service or business-platform ideas in the agriculture and allied sector. Selected applicants first join a two-month paid training-cum-internship. Those who complete it get idea/pre-seed stage fundi…
R-ABI at IIT (BHU) Varanasi backs Indian startups and agripreneurs with technology, service or business-platform ideas in the agriculture and allied sector. It looks for ideas it can carry from concept through prototype and into a self-sustaining company.
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