ABOUT

Spicing up the nation’s progress by nurturing technologies to grow as business opportunities

The Agribusiness Incubation (ABI) unit of IISR is set up through World Bank funded National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The unit intends to achieve the objectives of encouraging R&D in spice processing for product and process development, productivity enhancement and value addition to spice produce. The ABI unit will act as a catalyst for attracting entrepreneurship development in this sector by developing integrated processing capacities, providing technical guidance and advice on quality maintenance and testing standards as well as creating conducive environment for its growth.
The ABI unit envisages fostering sustainable business development by providing services like access to processing units for market testing of their products, technology/prototype development, research and development. The processing unit will be equipped with state of the art facilities for primary as well as secondary processing of spices and allied products. It will also promote entrepreneurship in enhanced production of high quality seed and planting material.
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                      Our Objectives

Main objective is to empower public and private stakeholders and rural farmers along the spices value chain to plan, design and set up sustainable business enterprises. Accelerate technology development and commercialization in the domain of spices through agribusiness ventures is another objective. It also enhance spice industry competitiveness through capacity building, consultancy and technical services. Moreover nurture and support innovations in the spice sector.

          What we offer

  • Technology / product - development, transfer, commercialization.

  • Technical and scientific support.

  • Marketing support.

  • Business plan development.

  • Infrastructure support like office space, laboratory, green houses, processing facility etc.

  • Networking.

  • Mentoring.

  • Facilitate access to funding sources (grant, loan, equity, venture capital fund).

  • Legal & IP advisory.