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INNOHUB 2010 List of participants

1. NIABI (Network of Indian Agri. Business Incubators)

NIABI is a national Initiative funded by the World Bank to groom, help, train and offer incubation services. NIABI is an initiative by The National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) formed by ABI-ICRISAT. NIABI builds synergy nationally through its Business Planning and Development Centres (BPDs) across India, and facilitates commercialization of innovative agro-technologies through agri-business development to benefit the farmers. The technologies developed by the 10 BPDs are as follows: -

Anand Agricultural University

Liquid Bio-fertilizers

Tissue culture Date Palm plants

Many crop varieties and hybrids of AAU

Bio-diesel

Probiotic lactic culture for dairy product

Continuous Basundi making machine

Area specific mineral mixture for livestock

Birsa Agricultural University

TxD pig : New Cross Breed of Pig with higher body weight and fecundity

Seed Production: Breeder and Foundation seed production of Rice (Birsamati), Wheat (Birsa Gahnu-3), Soybean (Birsa Safed Soybean-2), and Ground nut (Birsa Bold) etc as per need of Jharkhand state and eastern region.

Crossbred Black Bengal x Beetle goat, exploiting heterosis for genetic enhancement.

Implements production such as Dutch hoe, Grubber, Cono weeder, maize sheller etc.

Tissue culture banana cv Giant Governor, Behula and other varieties.

White Ragi Production & products development like Bread, cake, biscuits etc

Tissue culture for Gerbera, bamboo, orchids, MAP of Mango, Guava. Aonla & Orange.

Graft & Gootee Production of mango, guava (Birsa Chianki Guava 1 & 2 varieties), Lemon (Birsa Chainki lemon 1), Litchi, Ber, Bael, Aonla, Custard apple etc.

Organic rice, wheat, vegetables, medicinal & aromatic plants production.

Enriched Vermi Compost Production

Central Institute of Fisheries Technology

Ready-to-serve fish products in retortable pouches

Ready-to-eat extruded fish products

Battered and breaded fish products

Squalene

Chitin and chitosan

Collagen-chitosan membrane

Energy efficient effluent treatment plant

Encapsulated pufa concentrate

Glucosamine hydrochloride

Small & medium scale fish food processing machineries

Fishing vessel construction consortia

Technology clinics

Human resources development

Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology CIRCOT

Calibration Cotton Standards for HVI

Miniature spinning system

Cotton stalks as an alternate raw material for particle board & related industry

Technology to dye cotton yarn & fabric with Natural dyes

Eco-friendly Bio-Scouring technology suitable for adoption by SMEs

Marketing of testing services

Mobile laboratory for cotton grading at Farmers’ field

Technology for low cost sliver making system for Handloom Industry

Technology for Portable Gins

Technology for Variable Speed gins

Technology for Particle Board manufacturing from cotton stalk

Technology for producing kraft pulp from cotton stalk

Technology for producing Bio-gas from textile mill waste

Technology for Compost from Cotton Willow Dust

Eco-friendly technology for production of Oyster Mushroom from cotton stalk

Technology for production of microbial cellulose

Technology for production of Peptone from cotton seed meal

Chaudary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University

Crop Display Unit

Licensing of field crop varieties – Maize & Pearl Millet

Biotechnology & Microbiology Unit

Licensing of Liquid Biofertilizer Technologies

Veterinary Products Unit

Licensing of Diagnostic Kits/Tests

ELISA Kit for Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (HS) Antibody Detection in Serum of Cattle and Buffalo

Diagnostic test kit for Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (HS) in Cattle and Buffaloes

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Commercialization of male sterility restorer system in wheat

Turnkey process of converting MAS using the genes for leaf blight resistance and blast in Rice and Rust resistance in wheat

Product development of available/licensed transgenes in desired genetic background in Rice, Wheat and cotton

Open pollinated varieties (cauliflower, carrot, and brinjal) and Hybrid varieties (Cauliflower and Brinjal)

Off-season vegetable cultivation techniques

Commercialization of rice hybrid, Pusa RH-10; and rice varieties Pusa-1121, Pusa-1460 and Pusa-P-44

Virus detection kit- PCR based detection kit for: Citrus tristeza virus (CTV); Indian citrus ringspot (ICRSV); Citrus yellow mosaic virus (CYMV); Citrus greening Bacterium (CGB)

Pesticide Residue Analysis in food commodities

Novel super-absorbent cellulosic hydrogels

Novel bio-pesticidal formulation -Nematode based: Pusa NemaGel

Pusa neem micro-emulsion coated urea

Neem Azadirachtin based formulation for value addition of technical Azadirachtin

Upscaling of Biopesticide/Biofertilizers

Mobile feed block making machine including mineral block making machine using molasses

Pusa fruit drinks- Jamun, lime, Aonla, Grapes and Pineapple

Aspergillus niger (strain AN 27) based bioformulations (a) Kalisena SD and (b) Kalisena SL for management of soil borne diseases of crop plants

Indian Veternary Research Institute A. Diagnostic technologies

A.1. Diagnostic kit for caprine pleuropneumonia for field use

A.2. Monoclonal antibody based diagnostic kits for Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus infection

A.3. Latex agglutination test for diagnosis of animal leptospirosis

A.4 A rapid immunoassay for sero diagnosis of infectious bursal disease

A.5 Agar-gel immunodiffusion test for serological diagnosis of Johne’s disease

B. Vaccines B.1. A low volume saponified haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) vaccine

B.2. Multiple emulsion haemorrhagic septicaemia vaccine

B.3. Live attenuated homologous Peste des petits ruminants vaccine for small ruminants

B. 4. A cell culture vaccine for classical swine fever

B.5. Aluminum hydroxide gel-concentrated, oil adjuvanted vaccine for FMD

B.6. A vero cell based live attenuated vaccine for control of goat pox in goats

C. Feed technologies C.1. Area specific mineral mixture to increase productivity of animals of Uttaranchal and Uttar

Pradesh

C.2. Cold process technology for the preparation of urea molasses mineral block (UMMB)

D. Food technologies- value addition to meat & meat products E. Reproductive technologies

a. Crystoscope technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya

Hybrid seed technologies

Soil, seed & plant conditioning bio-agents (Rhizobium, Azotobactor and Jawhar Enriched Bio-organics)

Medicinal & aromatic plants and their derivates (Ashwagandha, Isbogoal & Kalmegh production & processing technologies)

National Institute of Research on Jute & Allied Fibre Technology (NIRJAFT)

Mechanical extraction of bast fibre and accelerated retting of jute.

Particle board from agro residues.

Briquetting & gassifiication.

Handicraft products from jute and allied fibre , yarn and fabrics.

Decorative, fancy and utility fabric from jute and jute blended yarn.

Jute-based geotextiles & agrotextiles.

Jute based packaging materials

Blended yarns for warm clothings.

Handmade paper from jute residue and product development.

Wet processing of jute.

Non-woven jute products like horticultural bags, auto textiles etc.

Testing instruments.

Marketing of testing services by door to door campaign.

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU)

I. Innovative Ventures TNAU-Coconut Tonic,

Herbal insect repellant (Acorus calamus 10D)

TNAU-Master Trap

Brinjal Seed Extractor

TNAU-Soil Health Software

Milky mushroom

TNAU Seri Dust

Sugarcane Booster

Biomineraliser

Bottling of sugarcane juice

II. Seed ventures a) Seed Business Incubation program

III. Farm ventures a) Precision farming and facilitating buy back with the firms

b) High-tech vegetable cultivation 2. NRDC (National Research Development Corporation)

NRDC is India's premier service enterprise whose business is to be the identifier, the carrier and the pilot of technology transfer.

For over fifty years, NRDC has played a key role in speeding the commercial applications of research and in effecting the transfer of technology from laboratory to enterprise.

NRDC guides and assists the entrepreneur in executing his technological business plans.

NRDC's extensive network of national and international contacts in scientific bodies, technology transfer agencies, industrial and engineering concerns, and venture-capital providers, has enabled it to act as an effective catalyst translating innovative research into marketable industrial products, processes and services.

NRDC works in close conjunction with over 200 national R & D laboratories and has licensed over 2000 technologies for commercial exploitation, of which nearly 1000 are in production with a current annual turnover of about Rs 12,000 million (Rs. 12 billion).

Technologies licensed by NRDC cover areas such as chemicals, drugs and pharmaceuticals, food, agro-processing, bio-technology, metallurgy, electronics, instrumentation, building materials, manufacturing techniques and utility processes including pollution control.

NRDC is a one-stop provider of comprehensive business services, devoted to satisfying the demanding customer of competitive technology. To this end, NRDC nurtures new ideas and inventions by providing finance and rewards; ensuring intellectual property protection; efficiently effecting transfer of know-how from laboratories to industry; providing access to new technologies from India and abroad; exporting Indian technological expertise and offering an array of technology consultancy services.

Technology packages from NRDC include data for the preparation of project reports that meet the requirements of investment banks and financial institutions.

NRDC has also set up 52 rural technology demonstration cum training centres in various parts of the country to give hands-on training and demonstrations to artisans and technicians living in rural areas.

Some of the NRDC technologies that are appropriate to rural development have also been demonstrated in Africa in Rural Centres. There is a demand for more of these Centres to be set up.

Some of the relevant agri. & rural technologies are as follows: -

SPV technology from Central Electronics Ltd., India provides an alternate source of energy, ideal for rural applications

NRDC’s Rice Husk Particle Board Technology was also useful for the 200 houses as shelter to the affected in earthquake in Gujarat

NRDC also commercialised the Biodegradable technology in view of the curbing pollution in the states with plastic bags

Also commercialising the Fly ash Bricks technology utilising the waste fly ash from Power stations

NRDC’s Agro & Food Processing technologies

A process for dyeing of coir with natural colours

An effluent free preparatory process for spinning of coir fibre

Azotobacter biofertilizer

Chicken Patties

Chicken Sausages

Cured and Smoked Chicken

Cocolawn - Readymade natural Lawn

Cocoon cutting machine - Sericulture

Cocoon deflossing machine - Sericulture

Coirret-Innoculant for Retting Coconut Husks

Compounded Asafoetida

Digested organic supplement

Field Spot test to detect Urea in synthetic milk

Garlic powder

Herbal Beer

Herbal Colors for Cosmetics

Improved design for thresher

Instant mango pickle & lime pickle

Iodized salt ( free flowing )

Mulberry leaf chopping machine

Mustard powder

Nutrid-(Artificial Silkworm diet)

Pith Plus

Powder duster

Probiotic fermented indigenous food

Resham Keet Aushadh-Silk Worm Bed Disinfectant

Shelf life extenders for fruits and vegetables without refrigeration

Spice Oils and Oleoresins

Tamarind juice concentrate

Tamarind Powder

Uzitrap - for Silkworm

Vijetha-A Silkworm bed disinfectant

NRDC’s Rural Technologies

Apricot Oil

Biofuel

Chlorine Tablets

Mud block making machine

Papad making machine

Rope Making machine

Simple pulse dehusking machine

Soya Processing

Tara Loom

Test kit for Microbiological Quality of Drinking Water

Water Analysis Kit

Water filter candles

3. Centre for Science in Villages (CSV)

Devendra Kumar is a disciple of Gandhi and follows the philosophy developed by the Mahatma. After years spent as a manager in an Indian corporation, Devendra left his job and moved to a village to study the life of villagers. He then created the "Center of Science for Villages" in the city of Wardha, near Nagpur, Maharastra, in the center of India.

The Center of Science for Villages is a government organization, although it is mostly responsible for its own funding through various research programs. Its primary goal is to improve life conditions in the Indian rural areas.

The techniques developed by the CSV range from mud housing technology to various methods of energy production or food growing. Hygiene is also a preoccupation, as well as favoring the development of local alternate industries.

These techniques are simple to use, costless and environment-safe, based on local materials. Training to villagers is provided in parallel, so they can pass their experience to others. This favors the creation of a local know-how that can be used to create jobs, trades, etc...

This is in agreement with the Gandhian philosophy whose target is that villages should be self sufficient: the use of these "appropriate technologies" brings independence to villagers and helps them to live with dignity.

The focus areas are as follows: -

Bamboo & Mud Housing

Total Sanitation systems

Renewable Energy

Rock Bee

Handmade Paper

Tools & Equipments

Pottery

Organic Farming

Food Processing

Technology for SHGs

Training

4. Rural Technology User Group (RUTAG), IIT Madras

RUTAG for Tamil Nadu was established in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in June 2004 to help rural Tamilnadu upgrade their technologies. The objective is technology upgradation, training and demonstration of any other innovative projects.

The following technologies are ready for transfer / marketing: -

Pirn Winding Machine

Coir Ratt

Sanitary Napkins

Bridge across Small Canal

Potter’s Wheel

Baby Diapers

Natural dyes

5. Media Lab Asia / Indian Institute of Information Technology

Media Lab Asia and Indian Institute of Information Technology have jointly developed a web based,

personalized agro advisory system which uses Information Technology to solve unscientific agricultural

practices called ‘eSagu’.

Sagu means cultivation in Telugu local language, the region in which the project started.

It exploits the advances in Information Technology to build a cost-effective agricultural information

dissemination system to disseminate expert agriculture knowledge to the farming community to improve

the crop productivity.

So far eSagu has been operationalized it in 300 villages covering six districts for 50 agriculture crops

besides fish and prawn.

eSagu has received recognition in different forums as listed below: -

eSagu was declared the best e-governance project at the Computer Society of India (CSI) and

Nihilent e-Governance Awards for 2005-06 ([Nihilent e-Governance Awards

eSagu features as a select entry among worldwide latest novel Internet applications in the book

"Innovative Application Case study 2006" published by Institute for Information Industry, a not-for-

profit Think Tank for Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taipei.

eSagu was listed as one of the top three e-Governance projects (the other two are BHOOMI and

SAMPARK) of India in the video film on “Next e Governance Plan”, November 2005.

6. Smokeless Cooking Stove-Kishor Kanthikar

In the rural part of India the main energy source for cooking is conventional stove using either firewood or charcoal as source of fuel. This stove has many disadvantages viz. extremely low fuel efficiency, high smoke emission etc. This leads to many kinds of health hazards to the village women and uncontrolled use of fossil fuel sources.

Considering the above facts an improved version which is not only smokeless but also very energy efficient towards the consumption of the fuel was designed. In the design charcoal is used as primary fuel which is commonly available and it can be generated by new gasification techniques from the agro waste. The design features are as follows: -

a. The stove consists of four main parts i) support base ii) fuel chamber iii) fresh air

circulation duct iv) forced air inlet.

b. Support bas: this of special design having pyramid shape concentrating the cosmic

energy.

c. Fuel Chamber: This is also of special design having pyramid shape which lead to drastic

increase in the energy efficiency of fuel consumption. This shape increases the heat by

about 20%.

d. Fresh Air Circulation duct: Extra care has been taken to provide fresh air to the fuel

burning with minimum pressure drop. This leads to extremely low force to drive the fresh

air into the stove.

e. Forced Air Inlet: Two options have been kept for the choice of the user. a) Manual hand

blower which can be operated by either hand or by foot. b) Extra low power battery

operated fan blower. This is of special design in which the battery last for about 12 hours

of continual operation. The further option of rechargeable batteries with Solar Photo

Voltaic Panel is also available. These features are at extra cost.

f. All the above combination make this stove a Renewable Energy based Eco friendly

source of heat energy for cooking.

This improved design provides about 50% increase in fuel efficiency.

FUEL AND GHG SAVING : Due to increase in efficiency even if 3% of the Indians switchover to this stove it can save about 3.2 million Tons of fossil fuel and about 6.7 million Tons of CO2 emission.

COST BENEFIT: The conventional stove cost about Rs. 300/- plus consumption of fuel (charcoal) costing Rs. 8/kg for a family of 5 persons i.e. cost of fuel per year would be Rs. 2920/yr. Thus the effective cost at the first year end would be Rs.3220. As against this the new improved stove will cost Rs.450 and the fuel cost will be reduced by 50%. Thus the effective cost at the first year end would be Rs.1910. Thus the net saving at the first year end itself would be Rs.860. From the second year onwards the yearly saving would be Rs.1010/yr. 7. Villgro Stores

A unique cash and carry store- VLE rural distribution channel for innovative products and services

VIMPL to showcase a scalable and profitable marketing model for innovative products and services in rural India which creates sustainable positive impact on people’s life

Out of the 770 million people in rural India more than 75% depend on agriculture & diary and 78% of these farmers have less than 5 acres of land. Average agriculture and dairy production in India is 30-50% of the world’s highest average productivity. The low productivity is caused by poor access of innovative product and services to large number of small holders as most of the distribution and extension services stop at feeder towns or villages with 1000+ population. Even if some minimalistic and functional retail channel reaches these villages, they are not configured for new product and services, resulting in extra ordinary delay in technology adoption

VIMPL is creating on ground infrastructure and organization to scale up quickly and profitably. In its last mile intervention to take innovations to market, VIMPL is guided by following principal

Improve affordability of innovations in rural markets Make innovations accessible to users in rural markets Increase engagement with the end users by giving them a comprehensive set of products and

services

VILLAGE LEVEL ENTREPRENURES CREATE EXTENSION AND SALES POINTS INSIDE VILLAGES AND ARE SERVED BY VIMPL STORE IN A CENTRAL BIGGER VILLAGE

The Model creates unparallel reach in the rural India by creating sales and field extension points in villages. Village Level

Entrepreneur helps quick adoption of new product and services at lower logistic & distribution cost

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MARKETING SERVICES

PRODUCT, SCOUTING, SELECTION/ TRIALS

SUPPLY CHAIN

TRAINING, CAPACITY BUILDING, BRAND

VLE / STORE 7-10

SALES/VLE/MNT INR 60-150K

SALES/STORE/MNT

Avg INR 500 K(IN 18 MONTHS FROM THE OPENING

VIMPL WILL CREATE 1BILLION USD OF WEALTH FOR SMALL AND

MEDIUM FARMERS IN RURAL INDIA

VILLGRO INNOVATIONS MARKETING PRIVATE LIMITED

Phone :+9144 66630400 (Office) Email Address ashutosh@villgro.org Postal Address : 3rd Floor, IITM Research Park, Kangam Street (Behind TIDEL PARK), Taramani, Chennai, 600113 Website : www.villgro.org 8. Villgro Pavillion Villgro Innovations Foundation seed funds and incubates ideas which impact rural lives and will be showcasing it’s incubatees and their work.

The current portfolio of Villgro incubatees who will be showcasing are as follows: -

VoiceNet UNIPHORE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS PVT. LTD. IVR based speech recognition technology –VoiceNet that sends information in the form of voice messages or short conversation that walks the caller through a set of questions to arrive at the information the caller is seeking. Region specific speech recognition technology is used for 11 different languages in India and the technology also adapts to different dialects. Uniphore developed VoiceNet that has the potential to reach millions of mobile phone subscribers through different services. Indradhanu Automatic Weather Monitoring Station NEUROSYNAPTICS PRIVATE LIMITED, BANGALORE

Agriculture is influenced by several factors like climatic, physiological, biological, economic factors etc and certain risk is involved with each factor. Amongst these climatic factors are one of the major risks. Farmers can mitigate the risk of yield losses due to unfavorable climatic conditions through some risk mitigating models like weather based insurances. Tasar Yarn Making Machine MASUTA PRODUCERS COMPANY, JHARKAND Tasar reeling is a livelihood activity for over 25,000 individuals, in varying degrees of involvement, across sectors varying from highly unorganised players, typically family members of weavers, to organised cooperatives and producer companies, like Masuta. Some of the major problems in tasar yarn production include the unstable nature of tasar cocoon rearing, the relatively low investment in tasar related R&D, the comparatively low value proposition tasar offers (as opposed to mulberry silk). Bamboo House

WONDER GRASS PRIVATE LTD, NAGPUR Bamboo House developed by Wonder Grass is a 400 sqft house with bamboo as main construction material. The walls are made up of prefabricated interwoven bamboo strips erected on a standard brick cement foundation. The walls are then reinforced with cement or adobe. Then the prefabricated truss and beam are raised over the supporting lattice columns to complete the framework for thatched roof. Rural BPO DESICREW SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, CHENNAI Rural educated youth are unable to find employment opportunities in villages, and as a result not migrate to cities. Desi-crew addresses this through an innovative Business Process Outsourcing model, where urban consumers outsource back-end support work to rural centres.

Rural Opportunities Production Enterprise (ROPE) ROPE PVT LTD, CHENNAI Poor artisans in rural areas are not able to market their products effectively and therefore get inadequate earnings. ROPE is a business process innovation that links rural handicraft artisans to urban markets through a remote outsourcing model. Arogyam organics Pvt Ltd (AOPL) AOPL,CHENGELPET Arogyam Organics is a Private ltd company founded by Mr. Arumugasamy in the year 2008.It offers a range of organic products under the name 'Bhojanam' and works with communities of small and marginal farmers in Tamil Nadu, ensuring that they get access to the best practices, equipment and market support. The rationale lies in the fact that farmer gets a good price for their produce & consumer gets top quality, affordable organic produce. They work with Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, an organization working with farmers on indigenous organic agriculture.

Skymet Pvt. Ltd,Noida SKYMET

Skymet is an enterprise that specializes in the processing and forecasting of weather information in the Indian subcontinent. Skymet is the leading private supplier of high quality, reliable weather forecasts and caters to the needs of the nations leading print and media houses. Of particular interest to Villgro is Skymet’s partnership with mobile platforms that provide specific and accurate weather information to small and marginal farmers that depend on the weather for their livelihoods. Skymet is promoted by Jatin Singh.