ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Jodhpur

Choosing a route

• Incubation support: for startups and enterprises that need help with product development, prototypes, market testing or business set-up. Enquire through the contact page.
• Training courses: for people who want skill or enterprise training in one of the listed topics.
• Intellectual property: patent, copyright and design filings go through the ITMU forms on the download page.

Getting in touch

• Call 0291-2786377 or use the enquiry form on the contact page.
• The pages read do not publish selection criteria or intake dates, so ask the office before applying.

ITMU-ABIC is the Institute Technology Management Unit and Agri-Business Incubation Centre of ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It is based at the institute, with two nodal officers.

What it does

The unit manages intellectual property and the commercialisation of technologies developed at the institute. It also runs an incubation centre for agri-startups and agribusiness enterprises. Support covers patent, copyright and design registration, technology licensing, business mentoring, market linkages, and access to facilities for product development, prototype development and market testing.

How programmes work

The centre runs skill development, entrepreneurship development and technology orientation courses. Course topics include protected cultivation of vegetables, hydroponics, commercial dairy farming with indigenous cattle, pearl millet nutri-cookies, mushroom cultivation, medicinal plants, moringa leaf production, vermi compost production and mass production of bio-control agents.

Who can apply

The pages describe the audience as startups, enterprises, farmer-producer organizations and other stakeholders across the agricultural value chain. Its trainees have come from Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and several other states.

Scale

The nodal officer's message says the centre has trained more than 400 rural youth, women, startups and aspiring entrepreneurs since it was established in 2019. It also reports revenue from its training, incubation and commercialisation work.

Who runs it

Dr. Dheeraj Singh is the Nodal Officer and Dr. Ranjeet Singh Yadav is the Co-Nodal Officer. The centre acknowledges the guidance of the Director of ICAR-CAZRI.