The document details India's Startup India initiative aimed at fostering innovation and startups in the agricultural sector to drive economic growth and employment. It discusses various government supports, funding mechanisms, and incubators that help agri-tech startups thrive, highlighting successful case studies and sector-specific opportunities. Additionally, it outlines the state-wise startup ranking and the challenges faced by new ventures in agriculture.

2. MANJUPRAKASH
PALB 7028
II Ph.D.
Agri Start ups: An Intervention for Boosting
the Future of Agriculture in India
Seminar-II

4. “To build a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and startups in
the country which will drive economic growth and generate large scale
employment opportunities.”
AIM:
To empower startups to grow through innovation and design.
Source: www.StartupIndia.in
START-UP INDIA :
Flagship initiative – January 16, 2016

5. WHY INDIA?
3rd 1,200+
$4.2B
8/10
28yrs
- www.nasscom.in

6. Present Scenario
- AgFunder’s AgTech Investing Report, 2016
$3.23 Bn was invested
in agricultural sector
worldwide
$313 Mn

7. Start-up scenario in India Agritech (2013-2017)
- NASSCOM, 2018

8. To understand the concept of startup
To discuss the avenues for startups in
agricultural sector
To know the government schemes and
incubation facilities related to startup
To review the success stories related to
startup
Objectives

9. Startup
Startup means an entity, incorporated or registered in India not
prior to 5 years, with annual turnover not exceeding Rs. 25 crore
in any preceding financial year, working towards innovation,
development, deployment or commercialization of new products,
processes or services driven by technology or intellectual property.
Source: www.StartupIndia.in

10. Converting an Opportunity into profit is called as startup

11. Overview of Start-up India Action plan

12. • Self-certification
• Launch of Mobile app and
portal
• Startup India Hub
• Legal support and fast-
tracking patent examination at
reduced costs
• Relaxed norms
• Faster exit for startups.
1. Simplification and
Handholding
• Fund of Funds : corpus of
Rupees.10,000 cr.
• Credit guarantee fund for
startups.
• Tax exemption on capital gains
invested in Fund of Funds.
2. Funding support and
Incentives
Salient Features of Startup India
●●●

13. • Organizing Startup Fests
• Launch of Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM) with Self–Employment and
Talent Utilization (SETU) Program of
NITI Aayog.
• Setting up 7 new research parks
modeled on the Research Park at IIT
Madras.
• Launching of innovation focused
programs for students.
• Annual Incubator Grand Challenge.
3. Industry-Academia
Partnership and
Incubation
• Small Industries Development
Bank of India (SIDBI) with a
Corpus of Rs.500 crore per
year for the next four years.
4. Credit Guarantee
Fund
●●●

14. Steps to be followed for setting up of startup

15. Startup ecosystem
Startup
Ecosystem
Support
organisations
Big
companies
Universities
Other
Research
organisations
Service
providers
Funding
organisations
• Ideas, inventions and research
• Startups at various stages
• Entrepreneurs
• Startup team members
• Investors
• Mentors
• Advisors
- NASSCOM Startup India report, 2016

16. Seed
Stage
Start-Up
Stage
Growth
Stage
Established
Stage
Expansion
Stage
Decline
Stage
Exit Stage
From idea to phases and team to organization
Lifecycle of a start-up

17. Sl. No. Category States
1 Best performer Gujarat
2 Top performers Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, and Rajasthan
3 Leader Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,
Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana
4 Aspiring
leaders
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,
Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal
5 Emerging states Assam, Delhi, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir,
Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Uttarakhand
6 Beginners Chandigarh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland,
Puducherry, Sikkim, and Tripura
Startup State Ranking, 2018

18. State wise number of startups
- Startup India National report, 2018
Sl. No. States Startups
1. Maharashtra 2587
2. Karnataka 1973
3. Delhi 1833
4. Uttar Pradesh 1129
5. Telangana 748
6. Gujarat 712
7. Haryana 710
8. Tamil Nadu 709
9. Kerala 461
10. West Bengal 417
11. Madhya Pradesh 384
12. Rajasthan 371

19. Sector wise distribution of startups
- Startup India National report, 2018

20. 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking

21. Leading economic nations - Start-up in 2017
11.3%
9.4%
4.9%
4.4% 4.4%
3.7%
3.4%
3.2%
2.9%
2.7%
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
Canada United States India Brazil United Kingdom China Germany Japan France Italy
Start-uprate(NascentEntrepreneurshipRate)
- NASSCOM, 2018

22. Benchmarks for India…

23. - Zinnov research and analysis

25. Need of Startup
Employment opportunities
Rural welfare
Transportation Facility Health Facility Education

26. Resource Scarcity Land availability Biodiversity conservation
Global warming Pollution Control
Need of Startup
Food safety and security

27. Start up in the field of Agriculture and its allied sector is called as
Agri Startup
Agri Startups

28. Agri startup
Agri startup is a company that is in the first stage of
its operations, initially bankrolled by their
agripreneurial founders as they attempt to capitalize
on developing a product or service on agriculture
and allied sector for which they believe there is a
demand.

29. Avenues for startups in
agricultural sector

30. Farming-as-a-service (FAAS)
• Agri equipment renting is another area likely to see market traction.
• As modern equipment is expensive and unaffordable for the average
farmer, renting can take the burden of the input costs away from the
farmer.

31. Startups are leveraging drones or tractor-
based solutions to get data on field,
pertaining to both weather and agricultural
data to determine risk.
Determine soil and crop health
Big Data

32. Market linkage models
• Innovations to help farmers with timely and accurate estimation of
sowing and harvesting in sync with consumer demand patterns.
Fintech for farmers
• Farm income is mostly in cash and it presents an opportunity for
Fintech startups to digitize payments for farmers through payment
gateways linked to their accounts.
• Such startups can also create the credit profile environment for
funders and lenders.

33. IoT for farmers
• Smart farming including concepts like high-
precision crop control, data collection, automated
farming techniques will remove inefficiencies and
bolster productivity.

34. Living Green Buildings
Sustainable ecosystem

36. Aquaponics

39. Apiculture
Need for future

40. Futuristic Solar Farming

41. Sl. No. Sectors Startup
1 Upstream (Input) Marketplace
model (Matching Agri-input
sellers to farmers)
2 Downstream (Output) ‘Farm-
to-Fork’ supply chain model
(Matching farmers to
businesses or retail customers
for fresh produce, processed
food)
3 Engineering led innovation
Examples of Agri Startups

42. • New innovative solution
• Social media for farmers is an added
value
• Focus on problems of potential
customers
• Strong proposal with effective solution
that promise and increase productivity
• Favourable business climate
• Emerging market for agristartups
• Increase in number of digitalised
farmers
• Angel investors
• Earn foreign exchange
• Competitive landscape
• Farmers may find it difficult to adopt
new technologies
• Possible laws and regulations
regarding leasing of farm land
• Lack of marketing expertise
• New on market
• Limited financial resources
• Lengthy procedure by funding
institutes
SWOT Analysis of Agri Startup
Strengths
ThreatsOpportunities
Weakness

43. The government schemes and
incubation facilities related to
startup

46. KEY
HIGHLIGHTS
OF THE
CELL'S
ACTIVITIES

47. Skill India Program
 Skill India is a campaign launched on 15 July 2015
 Aims to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by
2022
 But these constraints can be removed with the help of
Agricultural Skill Council of India (ASCI) which is providing
ample opportunities for the individuals with agriculture
background to develop their skills as per the competency standards
and qualifications
 So, it is necessary to link them to the Skill India program

48. 75 start-ups

49. Student READY Programme
• To provide rural entrepreneurship awareness, practical
experience in real-life situation and creating awareness to
undergraduate students about practical agriculture and allied
sciences.
• Helps in building confidence, skill and acquire ITK of the
locality and thereby preparing the pass-out for self-employment.

50. ICAR Agri-Business Incubators

51. • Pusa Krishi Incubator is an innovation hub and agri-
business incubation centre of ICAR-IARI.
• The incubator offers unparalleled technical and business
mentorship, network of industry experts as well as access to
government grants and funding platforms.
• It supports to agri-startups in scaling up their business and
commercialise their product.
Pusa Krishi Incubator

52. Activities
• Incubation
• Technology Commercialization
• Education Workshops
• Intellectual Property Facilitation
Aim
To provide a platform for budding Agripreneurs to provide
innovative solutions.

53. • Pusa Krishi Incubator has already graduated
3 cohorts with 34 start-ups. Have already raised
more than 7 crore in funding and won several
national awards and recognition

54. CrAdLE
(Centre for Advancing & Launching Enterprises )
• EDII has hosted a TBI – CrAdLE at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. 2nd
December 2016
• CrAdLE is supported by National Science and Technology
Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), DST, GoI.

55. Focus areas - Manufacturing, Healthcare, Renewable
Energy and Food/Agribusiness
Achievements

56. The N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
(NSRCEL) at IIM Bangalore.
NSRCEL
225 +
Ventures incubated
5,400 +
Jobs created

57.  Trained nearly 53,544 professionals
 23,246 started their own enterprises (43.41 %)
 They intend to nurture all interested potential agripreneurs

59. It is a TBI hosted by, ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad & DST, GoI.
a-IDEA has been housed in the Centre for Agri-Innovation for
fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture in India.
a-IDEA aims to help entrepreneurs ideate, incubate and
accelerate their innovative early stage start-ups
Start-ups are scalable to become competitive food and agri-
business ventures through capacity building, mentoring,
networking and advisory support.
a-IDEA
(Association for Innovation Development of Entrepreneurship
in Agriculture)

60. National Award For Emerging Technology
Business Incubator

61. • An initiative of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of
Science, Technology and Earth Sciences, GoI.
• Established in 2009
Mandate
• To enable cutting edge Life Sciences Research and Innovation
• C-CAMP is the country’s most exciting life sciences innovation
hub bringing together academia, industry and the startup ecosystem
- all on one platform.
Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Platforms

62.  Directorate of Agri-business Development in 2007
 It strives to serve as a one stop solution to all the business needs of
entrepreneurs who are interested in agriculture, bio-technology, food
processing, farm machinery and horticulture.
 It facilitates technology transfer through its network of TBI of DST.
To commercialize technologies and products developed by the
University
Technology Business Incubator
(TNAU)

63. Other Incubators and Accelerators focused on
Agritech

64. The success stories and research
study related to startups

65. Qualification M.Sc. Seed Science
Age 24 Year
Nodal Training Institute Shriram Pratishthan Mandal (SPM) Belgaum
Name of Venture SILVIA TRADE INC
Nature of Services Seed Varietal tasting and evaluation,
Consultancy
No. of Farmers Covered 5000
No. of Villages Covered 100
Annual Turnover 5.00 Cr.
Mr. Sharad Deshpande
Hubballi, Karnataka
Seeds of Success

66. Sustainability over the Long Term, Organically
Mr. Ramesh Khaladkar
Pune, Maharashtra
Qualification B.Sc. Forestry
Age 25 Year
Nodal Training Institute SSVP-Pune
Name of Venture Mauli Agro-tech
Nature of Services Manufacturing of Neem based organic
product, Consultancy
No. of Farmers Covered 450
No. of Villages Covered 20
Annual Turnover 2.00 Cr.

67. Mehrotra, N et al., (2016)
Entrepreneurial India: How startups
redefine India’s economic growth

68. The major reasons for failure of startups as identified
by Venture capitalists

69. Leaders of established companies identify the benefits
of collaborating with startups

70. • The government’s approach of targeting start-ups to power growth
over the next decade is well judged. But the easing of rules and
creation of a conducive policy environment should not be restricted
just to start-ups. It should be extended to all businesses.
• An enabling environment for this will comprise incubation centres
which can plug into cutting-edge research happening in the country.
If that is achieved , the Start-up India campaign would be
meaningful
Conclusion

71. • The real test for Start-up India will be the re-
domiciling of Indian start-ups .Partly to improve the
ease of investing in start-ups, such investments have
been exempted from long-term capital gains – which
will have to be watched carefully for signs that it is
being taken advantage of by, for example, real estate
manipulators.