Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)<\/a>, NITI Aayog and the <\/span>United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) <\/span><\/a>have launched its first AgriTech Challenge under its ambitious innovative Agri-tech program.<\/span><\/p>\n AIM, NITI Aayog in partnership with UNCDF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rabo Foundation had launched a South-South innovation platform<\/strong> in July 2021. The platform aims to enable a cross-border exchange of innovations, insights and investments.<\/span><\/p>\n Through this platform, cross-border collaborations are enabled among emerging markets across India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.<\/span><\/p>\n \u200b\u200bThe first initiative of the Platform is the Agritech Challenge (\u2018Programme\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n The Challenge aims to help smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa to address their challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n The challenge will support selected agritech and agri-fintech startups to expand to the international markets. They will get access to industry, investor & market linkages, along with mentorship from sector experts to help them build and test their solution in their chosen international market.<\/span><\/p>\n In India, more than 50% of the population is dependent on agriculture, and it contributes to about 15-18% of the GDP. To improve the agricultural sectoral landscape, NITI Aayog is taking several steps.<\/span><\/p>\n This challenge will help in those steps by helping develop a more self-reliant and responsive agriculture ecosystem that can address the issue of food security and also benefits smallholder farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018<\/b>AIM, NITI Aayog & UNCDF announce first AgriTech cohort under South-South Innovation platform<\/b>\u2019<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 22nd Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have launched its first AgriTech Challenge under its ambitious innovative Agri-tech program. Background AIM, NITI Aayog in partnership with UNCDF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rabo Foundation had launched a South-South innovation platform in July 2021.… Continue reading Agritech Challenge: AIM, NITI Aayog & UNCDF announce first AgriTech cohort under South-South Innovation platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-155515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Background<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the purpose of the Agritech Challenge?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of the Agritech challenge for India?<\/b><\/h5>\n