The Hindu Business Line : TNAU to set up agri-biz incubator

An agri-business incubator (ABI) is to be set up by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in partnership with the agri-business incubator of International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ABI-Icrisat), Hyderabad. The TNAU and ABI-Icrisat signed an MoU for this on April 11 in which the university Vice-Chancellor, Dr C. Ramasamy, and Mr I.R. Nagaraj, Director, Human Resource and Operations (Senior Staff Management Group), Icrisat, took part.

TNAU initiated for the ABI under the public-private partnership programme, which will serve as a platform for entrepreneur development through commercialisation and transfer of technologies developed by the university. The idea behind the ABI concept is to maximum the success of commercialisation of agri enterprises and minimising risks. The entrepreneurs incubated under this programme would go to the aid of farmers through improved technologies and farm services, the communication added.

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