commercialization of revolutionary meals products

Also the “innovation avenue map” that ICRISAT positioned into location made certain that R&D efforts had been commercialized and tied up with entrepreneurship to generate an impact at the geographical region and the lives of small holder farmers.

The innovation avenue map had the following steps and components: Proof of concept; R&D of a brand new technology; evaluation of the technology; assessing market capacity; identifying the design method; and implementation or commercialization. Although all of them are self-explanatory, allow me emphasize that marketplace and environment considerations are drivers of the innovation technique.

ICRISAT then employed a number of Agribusiness and Innovation Platform (AIP) to commercialize innovations with various sorts of partnerships or collaborations. In different words, AIP’s intention is to beautify its public-personal partnerships (PPP) as a model for fostering agro-business activities to carry R&D improvements of the employer and its partners to the market for faster, wider-scale impact. AIP additionally gives prototype innovations, understanding and know-how, education and co-region with researchers for close interplay; whilst the marketers great-track the prototypes and take them to marketplace, together with bearing the risks and reaping the rewards involved.

The achievements made beneath AIP up to now are: 1,218 agribusiness ventures incubated; 2,300 marketers skilled; $14.85 million in investment facilitated to 23 ventures to date; 331 agro-technologies commercialized; and 129,000 direct employment created inside the rural areas.

One of the structures ICRISAT driven beneath AIP is Agribusiness Incubation (ABI), that’s a spinoff of Technology Business Incubation (TBI). As I said in my column ultimate week, ABI is more than simply forming a commercial enterprise enterprise—it is approximately generating era for corporations that must come to be profitable with a growing capital base that finally could push for extra innovations inside the form of latest products with greater price-delivered.

Another possible platform of ICRISAT to take improvements to the agriculture area is Innovation and Partnership (INP), where big and established agri-agencies collaborated with us. INP’s intention is to broaden sturdy collaborative R&D partnerships with public, personal and allied sectors to benefit small holder farmers of dry land tropics across the rural and agribusiness price chains through the following: Strategic partnerships for boosting Inclusive Market-Oriented Development or IMOD; co-creation of institutional innovation fashions; cost chain improvements; collaborative studies and Public-Private Partnerships tasks; and commonplace infrastructure and facilities creation.

Then there’s Nutriplus Knowledge (NPK), which promotes “boom through price addition” and commercialization of revolutionary meals products and efficient food processing technology via PPP.

Looking at ABI, INP and NPK systems, the overall goal is to get improvements into the hands of small holder farmers, or from lab-to-land.

One element that can not be disregarded whilst getting innovations to small holder farmers is to expose them what are the first-rate technologies, and to constantly teach them to be marketers and innovators themselves.

During my stint as Agriculture Secretary underneath the Estrada Administration, one of the foremost packages I put into area changed into for every district inside the geographical region to have 20 hectares of land dedicated to era demonstration for rice farming. And it had an effect: the united states’s agriculture area grew by 9.6 percent in 1998-1999, which remains unmatched or unparalleled so far.

Fortunately, the Rice Board, an affiliation of personal seed organizations, performed over the last 4 cropping seasons their present day hybrid rice technology in 20 hectares of land in Digos City, Davao Del Sur; Pototan, Iloilo; Polangui, Albay; and M’lang, North Cotabato. The era demonstrations finished over one cropping is normally observed by way of a discussion board where farmers and different stakeholders get to realize the modern in rice farming.

The success of the Rice Board’s techno demo must spark off the Department of Agriculture to associate with the corporation, nearby authorities gadgets and state colleges and universities in upscaling the generation demonstration of hybrid technologies to more localities in the u . S . A ..

And now that we are in the our on-line world age, the energy of Information and Communications Technology have to be used to additionally enhance information management and transport to farmers in addition to extension officers.

What I actually have discussed in this two-component column series also factors to the want to overhaul the modern agricultural extension machine, in which research is carried out with out interacting with farmers, farmers are merely visible as recipients of technology, businesses are simply customers of uncooked farm produce for processing, and farmers were saved out of the agro-processing industry, intentionally or by chance.

In short, there are not any actual partnerships! And the small holder farmers stay trapped in poverty!

So there ought to no extra be dilly-dallying in getting more technology and improvements to small holder farmers.