Dr. Veena S Anil

The prospects for increasing future agriculture rely on increased focus on innovations and entrepreneurship in agriculture sector. Bringing innovation to agriculture not only underpins the creation of new opportunities for agri startups but also opens new markets. Innovation when patented, production becomes smoother and it adds to the prosperity of the nation.

For the fragmented and unorganized Agriculture sector in India, frugal innovations can help the economy grow in the long run. The dearth of market linkages, services, and networks that are being untapped, are the major pressure points plaguing the agriculture sector. Incubators and accelerators have transformed the Indian agricultural start-up ecosystem in the past two decades. Incubators can help agri-startups by grooming entrepreneurs, channelling funds, maximizing business opportunities, and providing on-ground pilot testing facility.

We at Agri Innovation Centre UAS Bangalore, nurture novel and potentially disruptive ideas of the students, aspiring agripreneur, agri startups and support them create a viable business model by providing the state of the art facilities to agri startups like phenomic facility, GCMS, HPLC, Green house, small scale food processing units. The agripreneurs gain co-working space, technical and business mentoring, Investment and networking support through AIC, UASB. It will strive to provide the much needed hand holding for start-ups by Academia in identifying relevant scientific discoveries and also nurture the entrepreneurs, fresh graduates to develop economically viable technologies to the Agriculture sector. The AIC, UASB also aims to encourage women entrepreneurs from both rural and urban settings to start successful businesses in the Agriculture sector and pave the way for job creation and self-employment.

Dr. Veena S Anil,
Co-ordinator, UASB, GKVK