Presenter : Kiran K. Sharma

1. SMART VILLAGES &
AGRIBUSINESS
Creating smart villages through agribusiness
Kiran K. Sharma
k.sharma@cgiar.org

2. 1. Harness markets in ways that include the
poor
2. Reinvest gains in innovations that move
smallholders along the development
pathway
3. Manage risks that are stumbling blocks for
the poor, building their resilience
IMOD: Three main elements

3. • Enhancing agricultural development through
entrepreneurship, innovation and partnerships
Vision
• To create, leverage and aggregate programs and
services to promote agribusiness and enhance
partnerships through entrepreneurship
development, innovation and value addition for
accelerated agricultural growth
Mission
About Agribusiness & Innovation Platform (AIP)
Value-added
food
products
Prosperity
through
partnerships
Agro-
enterprise
development

4. Serve as a mechanism for
agro-technology exchange
from ICRISAT and its
partners to the private/public
sector
Identify and promote
innovations and handhold
entrepreneurs to establish
sustainable agri-enterprises
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Act as a catalyst for Inclusive
Market-Oriented Development
(IMOD) by linking smallholder farmers
to different stakeholders across the
agricultural value chains and
promoting value addition to farm
produce
Facilitate socio-economic
development, especially promoting
new livelihood opportunities for
women and youth
Objectives of AIP
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3
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5. ABI: Improving well-being of poor
farmers through creation of
competitive agribusiness enterprises
by technology development and
commercialization.
Components of AIP
Institutional Impacts:
Entrepreneur – farmer linkages
• Crop & seed demand enhancement
• Outreach to farmers
• Strengthening farmer resilience
Institutional Impacts:
Public/Private sector partnerships
• Research linkages with private sector
• Subsistence development
• New developmental approach
Institutional Impacts:
Value addition & nutrition
• Creating market demand for SAT crops
• Promoting nutritional awareness, dietary
diversity and health
• Reducing malnutrition
• Ensuring Food Safety and Quality
INP: Developing collaborative research partnerships
with public, private and allied sectors to benefit the
small holding farmers of dry land tropics across the
agricultural and agribusiness value chain.
NPK: Value addition, post harvest
management, nutritional and food safety
awareness in agri-food sector through
innovative processing,
product/technology development and
capacity building.

6. Business
Services:
Key Services of AIPTECHNOLOGYDEVELOPMENT
• Scientific
support
• Liaising and
networks
• Licensing
• Technology
validation
• Lab space
and
equipment
• Testing and
trials
CONSULTANCY
• Technology
• Business
• Legal/IPR
• Market
Research
• Training
programs
• Techno-
Economic
feasibility
studies
• Soft-landing
services
FUNDING
• Government
schemes
• Venture
capitals
• Loans
• Angel
Investors
• Funding
directory
MENTORING
• Business
plans
• Business
meetings
• Action plans
and reviews
• Trainings
and
workshops
• Mentors
network

7. Business
Services:
Incubatee Profile at AIP
Client portfolio
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ClientIntake/Exit
ClientCategory
Bio-fuel
Ag-Bio
SBV
Farm Ventures
Ag-In
ICT
Food Processing
Client Intake
Graduated
Bio-fuel
1%Ag-Bio
13%
SBV
12%
Farm
Ventures
24%
Ag-In
27%
ICT
7%
Food
Processin
g
16%

8. Operational Area: AIP in India
The numbers…
• 22 BPD Units: 17 ICAR Institutes, 5
SAUs
• Start-ups incubated: 1218 with 91
graduations
• Innovations nurtured: 52
• Jobs created: 219, 973
• Technologies commercialized: 331
• Farmers benefited: 1.4 lakh
• Entrepreneurs trained: 3700
• Patents facilitated: 37
• Consultancy assignments: 283
• Revenue generated: USD 3.74 M
• Funding mobilized to clients: USD 2.98
M
• Global Agribusiness Incubation
Conferences: 6
• National Technology Transfer Meets: 2

9. SCENEOperational Area: AIP in Africa
UniBRAIN Project
AIP-ICRISAT
FTL ProjectFPBIC Project
FARA; ASARECA;
CORAF/WECARD;
CCARDESA; ANAFE;
PanAAC
ABI
MEA, GoI; MoFPI,
GoI;NARL, Uganda;
CCIMA, Cameroon; CSIR-
ARI, Ghana; Mali; Angola INP
MEA, GoI; MoFPI, GoI;
RBS, Rwanda; DRSS,
Zimbabwe; MCT, Republic
of Congo; NAFDAC,
Nigeria; NPHL, GambiaNPK
Value chain agribusiness incubators established6
Agribusiness start-ups incubated186
Agro-technologies commercialized58
Investment mobilized for incubatees$1.3 m
Agro-innovations scaled up by incubators21
Jobs created through start-ups3218
Additional consortia developed based on UniBRAIN model9

10. Partners of AIP

11. Smart Villages & Agribusiness
Focus
• How to create energy access and sustainability within villages?
• How to improve livelihood and quality of life in rural sector?
• How to enhance farm productivity and returns from field by
reducing farm input costs?
• How to address carbon footprint at farm-level?
• How to promote social ventures to challenge grassroot issues?
• Can community-driven interventions lead to smart village and
rural development?

12. Smart Villages & Agribusiness
FPOs as entry point for farm interventions
Agri-Information Center
Agro Services Center
Agro Storage Center
Agro Primary/Secondary
Processing Center
Logistics
FPO
FPO
FPO
NARS
NGOs
Public/
Private
Financial
Agencies
Government
Agencies
SHG
SHG
SHG
SHG
SHG
Seed Production & Marketing
Services from support actors:
• Knowledge and awareness
• Planning and execution of
business models
• Technology access
• Training on production &
marketing
• Provide resources and services
• Connect to market
Ag-Tech
Start-ups
Linking to other actors down
the Value Chain

13. State Telangana Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh
Districts Medak Coimbatore,
Nagapattinam, Pollachi
Ananthapur
No of FPOs Registered 5 5 5
No of Farmers Mobilized 200 500 50
Major Commodities Pulses Cereals
and Vegetables
Paddy, Coconut Pulses and Cereals
As a Resource Support Agency (RSA) for Telangana, AIP organized 3 training programs for
Telangana POPIs
Progress:
• Baseline survey done in all locations of the FPOs
• Cluster identification has been done
• Awareness meetings are ongoing
• Share capital mobilization is ongoing
• Discussions with Agriculture & Government Departments ongoing
Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)

14. • Registered under Companies Act,
2013, on 03/02/2016
• Located in Siddipet, Medak district
• Covering 7 villages and 7 gram
panchayats
• 68 share holders and Rs.68,000/-
share capital
• Having 3000 sqft godown on rent
• Focus on vegetable production
and marketing
• Secured seeds and fertilizer selling
license
SIDDIPET KISAN AGRO PRODUCERS COMPANY LTD
FPO awareness program in
Laxmidevipally Village
FPO awareness program in
Ibrahimpur village
FPO staff Participated in
technical session at Field by
Horticulture Department
FPO awareness program in
Lingareddypally Village
About a new FPO

15. • Connecting ICRISAT research and
scientists to farmers
• Connecting agribusiness start-ups,
services and products to FPO
members
• Support FPO management team
with business development and
marketing assistance
FPOs & ICRISAT
What we also do?
Recently inaugurated eFresh-FDC at Narayankhed; eFresh is an
incubatee at ABI-ICRISAT

16. Original Value Chain
Capacity to
Respond
End Market
Requirements
Harmonize grades
and standards,
trading protocols,
process interfaces
and information
systems
Develop an
integrated
value chain
development
strategy
Achieve breakthrough improvements
in the core value chain functions
Develop forecasting
methods and systems
to balance demand
and supply more
precisely
Customers Customer’s
Customer
Distribution
Channel
Extend the
value
chain
forwards
Test Alternative
Distribution
Channels /
Invest in new retail
services
SuppliersSupplier’s
Supplier
Extend the
value chain
backwards
Core
Vendors
Procure Produce MarketProduct
Distribu-
tion
Process
Develop a
sophisticated
inventory
replenishment and
shipment scheduling
capability.
Strengthening the agribusiness value chain

17. Smart Villages through Agribusiness
FPO
Mini-
processors
Storage
Service
Providers
Ecozen Technologies
Solar dryers
Fossil fuel
Cleaner
energy
Low-carbon development pathway
Inputs Production
Processing
(village level)
Marketing Consumer
Claro Energy
Energy access
• Increase farm
revenue
• Improve field
productivity
• Lower PH loss
• Nutritional security
• Enhance quality of
life
Bio-energy
Bio-gas, bio-mass
Husk Power
Systems
Custom hiring
models for
farm
mechanization,
irrigation
Linking up for energy access along the Value Chain
Chilling units
SunDanzer
Chotukool
IOT / ICT ventures on
farm management

18. Critical aspects to be considered
• Defining the problem given the multiple actors, systems and interactions at
play
• Develop solutions for the problem
• Ability to aggregate demand since it is a dispersed market with diverse needs
• Implementing renewable energy model at low-cost
• Costing per unit of energy
• Minimum turn-around time
• On-ground technical support
• High risk at initial stage
• Addressing gender inclusion
• Access points for partners to enter and help attain scale

19. Opportunities for agribusiness in Smart Village
 National Solar Mission of Government of India
• US$ 769 m for 5 year period to install solar roof-top systems under grid-system
 CSR Act, Government of India
• Allows for contributions towards rural development projects, eradicating hunger
and malnutrition, access to safe drinking water, and ensuring environmental
stability
 Thrust towards promoting FPOs across India
• SFAC & NABARD schemes, State Governments
 Increasing Government support for start-ups
• Start-up India, Tinkering Labs and Fabrication Labs, Accelerator programs and
business incubators
 VCs looking at clean tech space
• Range of clean technologies that are becoming cost-effective and at scale
 International Solar Alliance launched by India and France

20. Smart Villages and off-grid development
Improving farm productivity with FPOs
Food processing and non-farm ventures
www.e4sv.org
Local
business
Nutritional security, value-
added food product basket
FPOs are made by, for, of
farmers
Renewable energy service
providers for households
Access to quality
education

21. Thank You
Special Acknowledgement:
Dr MS Swaminathan
Claro Energy
Ecozen Technologies
Yourstory.in
Godrej Chotukool
SunDanzer
Jonathan Philroy, AIP-ICRISAT
Team AIP-ICRISAT