This document proposes solutions to address the lack of agricultural research and development (R&D) in India. It notes that R&D currently lacks funding, expertise, and application in agriculture. The team proposes creating centralized institutions with sufficient facilities to conduct higher quality agricultural research. Specific solutions include maintaining centralized records of R&D activities, applying engineering and physics principles to agriculture, establishing specialized institutions for different crops/practices, and educating farmers on improved techniques. The team believes this increased focus on agricultural R&D and innovation is needed due to agriculture's importance to the economy and growing population demands. Any innovations developed would first be tested on a small scale before expanding nationally.

1. GRAINNOVATION
R&D IN AGRICULTURE
Team Members:
Aamir Lokhandwala
Rohit Pal
Pooja Agarwal
Mohit Upadhyay
Parvez Nophel
Manthan

2. Contemporary Scenario
 Research and innovative activities in India lack
severity.
 Liberalization of the economy took place.

3. Lack of Institutions
promoting
Research and
development.
Lack of funding
Lack of Expertise
Problem
Statement
• Lack of application of R&D in field of agriculture.
• Lack of Institution with enough facilities
• Lack of quality of research in existing university.

4.  Reason for Selecting Specific topic:
1. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy.
2. Lack of output of current R&D section of the same.
3. Agricultural patents constitute only 2% of total patents of India.
4. Growing population and increasing demand.

5. Proposed Solution
 Maintaining a centralized record to keep track of the daily
activities going on in all the institutions and weekly assessment of this
record.
 Applying principles of engineering and physics in combination with
agriculture.
 Various sections in different institutions targeting different
agricultural practices across India should be developed and
indigenous practices should be combined with scientific approach.
 Cash crops and food crops research must be done separately and
farmers be educated and made aware of better techniques of
irrigation and usage of new chemical fertilizers.

6. Stake holder of agriculture
Government Development and implementation of policy and
legislation on agriculture, environment, promotion
of innovation.
Parastatals/Statutory
bodies/Science
Councils
Scientific research, technology generation and
transfer(or promotion of the application of knowledge
and innovation) in agriculture, bio-diversity, agro
processing, socio-economic development and impacts.
Higher Education
and Development
Institutions
Curriculum development, training, research (pure and
adaptive) and technology transfer.
Organized
Agriculture
Technology transfer; cooperatives provide a
commercial base for procurement, priority setting,
facilitate resource allocation, articulating the needs of
the 2nd economy.
Civil
Society/community
based organizations
Development, training, capacity strengthening,
adaptive research, technology transfer, support
services.
Financial Institutions Lending and mortgages, Socio-Economic research and
general financing to the agricultural sector.

7. Infrastructure Finance Human Resources Source of Funding
Websites and internet
facilities
- Web designing firms
or individuals in the
rural areas
Local govt.
Land for testing of
pilot projects
70,000 INR Real estate firms or
small scale farmers
Central govt.
Seeds and other
resources needed for
expt.
50,000 INR Small to medium scale
farmers
Local govt
Water and other
fertilizers for pilot
projects
30,000 INR Water resource
management firms
Disposal of
agricultural waste
And effluents
generated
25,000 INR Health safety and
environmental
engineers
Environment dept.

8. Impacts
Calculating the total economic return coming from the
application of innovative methods on fields, it’s impact on the
GDP.
The economic effect on the small scale farmers and
industries will be evaluated separately and the return
benefit to the universities will be used to sell the
technologies to other nations as well. The monitoring agency
will be centralized and online evaluation be done.
In the first phase the new technologies will be applied on
block level of panchayati institution and will then be
applied to zonal and then national scale, methods will be
suitably adopted and modified to the pre existing
methodologies for longer sustainability.

9. References
 http://www.indiaagristat.com/agriculture/2/agriculturaleducation/9963/stats.asp
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 http://www.manabadi.co.in/Articles
 http://www.iasri.res.in/agridata/09data
 http://www.niscair.res.in/sciencecommunication/researchjournals/rejour/jipr/Fulltex
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