PJTSAU to have its footprint in agri innovation ecosystem
The Hindu
Innovation hub is set for inauguration today
Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) will join a few other agricultural universities in the country to have the distinction of housing agri incubators when its agri innovation hub, AgHub, is inaugurated on the campus here on Monday. AgHub operates in a hub and spoke model, where the innovation hub headquartered on the PJTSAU campus supports agritech startups through ‘Innovation-Incubation-Acceleration’ of the startups across the country, whereas the rural innovation spokes in Jagtial, Warangal and Vikarabad would cater to the promotion of rural entrepreneurship. The rural entrepreneurship for building agribusiness enterprises promoted by rural youth, women, farmers and farmer producer organisations (FPOs) would cater to the last mile delivery of innovations. They would also act as agritech innovation pilots, help capacity building of FPOs and building FPO-led enterprises for building up crop value chains in select by-crops of Telangana.More Related News