A total of 67 applicants represented their startup in front of the committee via a Zoom meeting

The Punjab Agri-Business Incubator (PABI), Directorate of Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana recently organised an online RIC I Meeting of Cohort III. The meeting was organised for the selection of agripreneurs for the two-month training programme under Uddam and Udaan. The expert committee members, Dr TS Riar, Additional Director, Communication; Dr Poonam A Sachdev, Head, Food Science & Technology; Dr Vishal Bector, Associate Director, Industrial Linkages; Jyoti Saroop, GM, The Unati Co-operative Marketing-cum-processing Society as Industrial Partner; Satyendra Chaudhary, CEO, TBI, IISER, Mohali; Dr Amarjit Singh, Representative, Knowledge Partner IARI; Mr Sanjeev Kumar, DDM, NABARD; Dr Narender Singh Benipal, Chief Agriculture Officer, Ludhiana and Dr Lavleesh Garg, Assistant Professor, Extension Education held deliberations under the chairmanship of Dr JS Mahal, Director, Extension Education, PAU, Ludhiana.

A total of 67 applicants represented their startup in front of the committee via a Zoom meeting. The focus areas of the start-ups include farm machinery, food processing, organic farming and inputs, agri clinic services, soilless cultivation, beekeeping and honey processing, agriculture biotechnology, agri supply chain, agro waste management and mushroom cultivation.

While proposing the vote of thanks, Dr TS Riar mentioned that innovation, scalability and farmer impact are the major factors to select an agri-based startup to incubate under the Agribusiness Program.

The meeting was coordinated by Karanvir Gill, Business Manager; Rahul Gupta, Assistant Manager and Iqbalpreet Kaur Sidhu, Business Executive, PABI.