{"id":1850,"date":"2022-06-10T07:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T07:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2022-06-10T07:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T07:03:20","slug":"birac-in-partnership-with-ikp-knowledge-park-invites-proposals-from-start-ups-and-smes-under-agri-grand-challenge-last-date-15th-july-2022-5-00-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/birac-in-partnership-with-ikp-knowledge-park-invites-proposals-from-start-ups-and-smes-under-agri-grand-challenge-last-date-15th-july-2022-5-00-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRAC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IKP KNOWLEDGE PARK INVITES PROPOSALS FROM START-UPS AND SME\u2019S UNDER \u201cAGRI-GRAND CHALLENGE\u201d :LAST DATE: 15TH JULY, 2022 (5.00 PM)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Agri-Grand Challenge (AgGC), an initiative of BIRAC in partnership with IKP Knowledge Park (IKP), aims to identify and fast-track technology driven solutions that are almost ready to deploy and are scalable to help boost farmers\u2019 income especially marginal and small landholding farmers. Agriculture plays a vital role in the Indian economy with over 70 per cent of the rural households depending on agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture contributes to around
\n17-18% of the country\u2019s GDP and provides employment to around 60% of the population. The government is keen to focus on increase in farmers\u2019 income and farmers\u2019 welfare on the whole. A series of innovative technologies, practices, products, services, business model and\/or integrated solutions, that have been piloted at a small scale in India will be identified, funded, monitored for field testing over a period of 30 months through a two-stage process in this
\nprogram. The focus of this Challenge will be to demonstrate increased incomes through deployment of selected technologies. To ensure impact, the selected innovations\/start-ups in Stage 2 of the program, will test multiple crops in two agro-climatic zones and will include small and middle
\nlandholding farmers. The AgGC will enable the selected entrepreneurs to test, refine and validate their solutions for rapid deployment in the market through expert mentorship and connecting with relevant commercial partners to aid the accelerated development, scale-up and distribution of their
\nsolutions.
\nThematic Areas for the call:<\/strong>
\nProposals are invited in the following fields:
\n\u2022 Quality Inputs (seeds, planting material and crop-nutrition products) – product and
\ndistribution innovations
\n\u2022 Genome edited plants under SDN1 and SDN2 category
\n\u2022 Pest and Disease Management
\n\u2022 Resource Management (soil and water sensors, water conservation, soil health, soil
\nmicrobes and crops interaction for healthy and sustainable farming, etc.)
\n\u2022 Bio-stimulants, bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides
\n\u2022 Quality assessment of agricultural output
\n\u2022 Weed control technologies
\n\u2022 Efficient Biologicals production technologies
\n\u2022 Farm Mechanization and Pervasive automation
\n\u2022 Digital Farming\/Smart Agriculture (Precision and Digital agriculture, AI\/ML-based, UAV
\n(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), sensors, robots, weather prediction, vertical farming,
\norganic farming, etc)
\n\u2022 Genomics knowledge driven precision breeding for climate resilient agriculture
\n\u2022 Harvesting and Post-harvest Loss Management
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\n\u2022 Farm level storage, processing and value addition, warehousing
\n\u2022 Livestock technology in areas including dairy, fisheries\/aqua, goatry and piggery, feed
\nand feed supplements, quality assessment tools for dairy and other products, etc.
\n\u2022 Agri-fintech solutions to enable financing to small holder farmers
\n\u2022 Emerging agrcultural technologies (Blockchain, SaaS Technologies, traceability
\nsolutions, etc.)
\n\u2022 Other allied areas<\/p>\n

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The Agri-Grand Challenge (AgGC), an initiative of BIRAC in partnership with IKP Knowledge Park (IKP), aims to identify and fast-track technology driven solutions that are almost ready to deploy and are scalable to help boost farmers\u2019 income especially marginal and small landholding farmers. Agriculture plays a vital role in the Indian economy with over 70… Continue reading BIRAC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IKP KNOWLEDGE PARK INVITES PROPOSALS FROM START-UPS AND SME\u2019S UNDER \u201cAGRI-GRAND CHALLENGE\u201d :LAST DATE: 15TH JULY, 2022 (5.00 PM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funding.venturecenter.co.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}