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KVASU to collaborate with National Agri Udaan project

 Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University will collaborate with National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad in the areas of Agri innovation, Technology Business incubation, Technology enabled learning, Technology commercialisation, faculty level training and student internships. KVASU will associate with Agri Udaan the food and agri business accelerator programme of NAARM and a- IDEA, the association for innovation development of entrepreneurship in agriculture of NAARM which was supported by Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India.
A- IDEA is functioning at Centre for Agri innovation; ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad..This envisages an agri entrepreneurial ecosystem in India that promotes innovation through cutting edge technology and economic value addition. This will support powerful agribusiness and technology ventures through capacity building and facilitating access to knowledge and resources.
Agri Udaan is a food and agribusiness accelerator organised by NAARM, a –IDEA and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad. The programme focuses on catalyzing scale up stage food and agri business start-up stage through mentoring, industry interface with investor support. It is a unique platform for scale up stage innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Food and Agribusiness sector to showcase their products or services and to receive valuable inputs from mentors, R&D institutions, Agribusiness industries and investors. This will facilitate 200 Agribusiness start-ups to accelerate their business. At a time when KVASU is in the process of launching start-ups in agribusiness sector collaboration with NAARM and a-IDEA will facilitate to strengthen agribusiness ventures and agripreneurship in the country. Says Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan who recently led a delegation from KVASU and discussed with NAARM officials from Hyderabad. K.Sreenivas, Chief Executive Officer, a-IDEA, NAARM suggested that senior officials from NAARM will visit KVASU campuses during October 2017 and finalize the broad areas of collaboration with KVASU. An MOU will be signed to strengthen agribusiness ventures in the State. Proposed KVASU-NAARM collaboration will position KVASU’s entrepreneurship initiatives to the National level.