Bengaluru, Karnataka, India:
 The Ag-tech trade has grown leaps and bounds in a brief interval, with a number of startups venturing into the house. However, they require steering, mentorship, and entry to assets to construct a viable business. Against this backdrop, nurture.farm, India’s largest and main ag-tech firm is on a quest to construct a resilient and sustainable farming ecosystem by tech-led options, and has launched its incubation program – Catalyst – to assist agri-tech startups maintain themselves and broaden additional.

 

nurture.farm Catalyst will assist agri-tech startups collaborate with key stakeholders throughout the agricultural ecosystem, acquire capital for sustenance, take a look at their merchandise or options at scale, and acquire entry to infrastructural, information and human assets. The program will provide its incubatees a large spectrum of assist to allow them and speed up their progress journey. This incubation program focuses on nurturing the progress stage, pre-revenue, seed-funded, or angel-funded startups. It intends to assist, collaborate and champion these startups as they break new grounds.

 

By partnering with nurture.farm, the startups can profit from its expertise, faucet into their rural community, leverage trade connections, and the goodwill the firm has garnered over time.

 

Dhruv Sawhney, Business Head & COO of nurture.farm, mentioned, “Agricultural productiveness is at an all-time low. Food safety is in danger, with an ever-growing inhabitants set to achieve 10 billion by 2050. In addition, pests, ailments, and pure calamities destroy greater than 40% of annual manufacturing, thus ensuing in an annual lack of over USD 108 billion attributable to broken or misplaced crops.

 

nurture.farm has constructed digital highways to attach the heartlands of India by constructing strong expertise platforms, Agri e-commerce marketplaces, market linkages, provide chain networks, advisory companies, monetary options, and shared economy fashions. The want of the hour is for the trade to return collectively, pool assets, change info, and share learnings to foster progress and scale shortly.

 

As we have a look at the varied issues in the Agri trade, we understand that we have to pave the method for different Agtech startups to drive innovation & change. These budding startups can leverage our ecosystem, take a look at their resolution choices at scale to determine a product-market match, and assist remedy the challenges for the farmers, the Agri ecosystem, and the planet. The time to behave is now, and our incubation program ‘Catalyst’ is one other step towards reaching the similar. We want to start out specializing in fostering sustainable agricultural practices and work to combine expertise in this sector to unravel the issues.”

 

Aspiring startups can apply for the program on nurture.farm’s web site. nurture.farm’s information companions embody organizations like UPL, NPP, Advanta, and Decco. An skilled panel of consultants from the agricultural trade will evaluation every utility, mentor startups, and assist them develop. The program will settle for entries till thirty first March 2023.