Agribusiness Incubation (ABI) Centre
- Established in 2019 for creating agri-businesses through technology provision, skill upgradation and incubation for sustainable entrepreneurship using technological advancements in tropical tuber crops in the areas of production of quality planting materials, eco-friendly farming, smart farming and nutrition & health.
Incubation programmes implemented through SIC
ABI programmes
- Imparts training and capacity building to prospective entrepreneurs in agribusiness ecosystem. A total of 763 agripreneurs, entrepreneurs, students, startups, FPCs, SHGs, MSME and big companies were trained in business related areas.
- Incubatee enrolment – Startup Incubation – 10; Nutriseed farmers – 32; School connect – 55 students; Certified Agritech startup Professional scheme – 136 students
Satellite Incubation Centre (SIC) – A Collaborative value-chain entrepreneurship model
- ICAR-CTCRI ABI has developed three SICS in cassava regions of TN (KVK, Kallakurichi under TANUVAS), sweet potato regions (RCCTCRI, Bhunabeswar) and multiple tuber crops belt (College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University (Imphal), Lembucherra in Tripura).
- The Satellite Incubation Centre was internationally recognised as an Institutional Innovation model by Food and Agricultural Organisation of United Nations which was published as a working paper in 2023.
