With Indian agri-food sector becoming a hotbed for MNC investment, we look at how agribusiness can help in improving the state of Indian agriculture and the need for policy regulations. The success of NIABI in furthering agribusiness opportunities through technology commercialization shows that the incubator network can play a pivotal role in promoting agribusiness in the country. A favourable environment supporting agribusiness and incubators needs to be developed so as to promote the sector.

1. NAIP initiative on mainstreaming
agribusiness
Dr. R.C. Agrawal
Registrar General
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights
Authority
(Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India)
rg-ppvfra@nic.in
www.plantauthority.gov.in

2. NAIP
(National Agricultural Innovation Project)
To groom agriculture as a business
venture……
Four Components:-
1.ICAR as a Catalyzing agent for Management of
Change in Indian NARS
2.Research on Production to Consumption
Systems (PCS)
3.Research on Sustainable Rural Livelihood
Security(SRLS)
4.Basic and Strategic Research in Frontier Areas
of Agricultural Sciences (BSR)

3. Sub-Components of
Component 1
1.1 Information, Communication &
Dissemination System (ICDS)
1.2 Business Planning & Development
(BPD)
1.3 Learning & Capacity Building (L & CB)
1.4 Policy Gender analysis & Visioning
(PGAV)
1.5 Remodeling Financial & Procurement
System (RFPS)

4. Network of Indian Agri-Business Incubators
Laid a unique and globally pioneering platform for Agri Business
development in the country through NARES

5. Development of Infrastructure
•Fully Equipped Office Space
•Modern Laboratories and Technology Facilities
•Commercial Utilities

6. Intellectual Property & Technology
Management
• Protection of IP Rights
• Prioritization of Commercially Viable Technologies
• Commercialization and Licensing of Technologies
Broad Categories
Seeds and Planting Biotechnological
Material Products
Post Harvest & Farm implements &
Value Addition Machinery

7. TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING
• EDPs for Sourcing of New
Entrepreneurs
• EDPs for Imparting Technical Skills to
Entrepreneurs
• Training for Internal Human Resource
• Capacity Building of Zonal Partners

8. BUSINESS INCUBATION
• Business Idea Selection
• Market Analysis and Feasibility Study
• Technical and Business Training
• Up-scaling
• Business Plan Preparation
• Sourcing of Fund
• Mentorship in Establishment of Commercial
Units
• Business Promotion

9. Technological Impacts

10. IARI- Hydrogel
Sector wise Fresh Water
Utilization (%)
6 As the fresh water resources are
5 depleting in India technologies are
being developed to address this
acute problem faced by Indian
Agriculture.
89
Taking these technologies to the
end users is possible only through
Business Incubators
Agriculture Industry Domestic
Hydrogel technology has been commercialized by BPD-IARI which
addresses the need for water conservation in India Agriculture

11. Impacting Crop Production
• BPD units have
commercialized
various high
yielding crop
varieties and
hybrids which
greatly contribute
to the crop
production in the
Pusa RH 10 country

12. Creating Impacts at Ground Zero
Emral Mobile Based Irrigation Scheduling Equipment
• Uncertainty in the
availability of three phase
connections
• Death due to snake bites
as farmers walk down
from their homes to
pump houses in nights
• Scarcity of labour to
irrigate large farms

13. Industrial Impact
(through new product introduction)
• The size of Semi-processed and
ready to eat packaged food
industry is over Rs 4000 crores.
• Indian Food Processing industry
has the untapped domestic
market of 1000 million consumers
(mostly semi urban and rural
consumers)
• BPD Units have introduced many
processed foods of its respective
institutes and incubatees that suit
the semi-urban and rural
consumers
Millet based ready to eat foods from Coronet Foods- An Incubatee of BPD-TNAU

14. Laptop packaging box made from Banana
Fibre
This innovation from
M/s Eco Green Unit-
an incubatee of BPD-
TNAU addresses
• Industrial Eco friendly
packaging need
• Improves the income
levels of banana
farmers
• Wealth from Waste

15. Social Impact
Seed Business Incubation • Turning Farmers in to
Program Seed Enterprenuers
Pre production • BPD-TNAU has
1. Business plan implemented the Seed
Business Incubation
2. Capacity building
program in Tsunami
3. Escort services Affected Nagapattinam
(banks, dept, and
market yards) district in the state of
Tamil Nadu
Production Seed Post production • beejIndia Producer
1. Seed Access Business Company Limited has
1. Branding
2. Quality control been registered by BPD-
Incubation 2. Marketing
3. Processing IARI
3. After sale
4. Storage access support

16. Technical Consultancy
M/s Sultan Fish Seed Farm -
for establishing a facility for
value added products from
freshwater fish at Karnal,
Haryana. The Unit is being
inaugurated by Dr. S.
Ayyappan, Secretary DARE
and Director General, ICAR
on 26th February 2011.
Thermal Process validation
consultancy by BPD-CIFT of
sea foods to M/S Horizon
Fisheries, Mandhoo, Maldives

17. Salient achievements of BPDs
 Incubatees : 336 enterpreneurs
 Technologies commercialized : 60
 Revenue Generated through Tech. commercialization: Rs.
400 lakhs
 New Additional funding Initiatives : MSME incubation
funding for 8 BPD units worth Rs. 5.3 crore & 1 DST funding
for Rs. 2.5 crore.
IARI BPD
Building
and
laboratory

18. Salient achievements of BPDs
 ICAR up-scaling the initative across the country with
over ~50 new BPDs in the 12th five-year plan.
 Other SAUs and ICAR institutions initiating ABIs
with other resources (ANGRAU, Rajasthan
Agricultural College, Annamalai, DOR, DRR).
 Paradigm shift in NARS for promoting Innovation &
Entrepreneurs in agri R&D through PPP.
 With the establishment of 10 BPDUs, India has achieved the
distinction of having the highest number of ABIs in the world.
Globally, there are over 50,000 BIs, but the number of ABIs are
only 35

19. Visit to attend
EMRC- AgriBusiness Forum 2011
Johannesburg , South Africa
16-20 Oct 2011

20. Visit to incubators in South Africa
• Timbali Technology Incubator,
Nelspruit
– Ms. Louise de Klerk, CEO
• FURNTECH, Johannesburg
– Mr. Michael Reddy, CEO
Both these incubators are financed by Small
Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA),
Federal Govt. of South Africa

21. Process of Incubation
Technical Mentoring and Coaching
Business Skills Development
Business Management Mentoring and Coaching
Business Technology Incubation Programme

22. As a Follow up
NAIP is involving each BPD in at least one
value chain preferably for NAIP developed
value chains

23. Sustaining Impacts
• Awareness on market developments/demands
• Market Oriented Product Development- Increased
interaction among Scientists and Business
Managers
• Scouting new technologies for business incubation
beneficiaries
• Commercializing problem solving technologies
• Evolving new incubation service strategies
• Better promotion and publicity
• Effective linkage with National Innovation Council

24. The encouragement and support from DG, ICAR;
ND, NAIP; all BPDs, and ICRISAT is greatly rg-ppvfra@nic.in
acknowledged