By The Hindu Bureau
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C-CAMP-GoK Agri Centre of Excellence (CoE) has joined hands with Bayer Science and Innovation Private Limited to support early-stage startups.
The agreement will foster early-stage startups and entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing, mentoring, pilot deployment, and strategic engagement, with an aim to promote innovation and enterprises aligning with sustainability, food security, climate resilience, and crop productivity goals of both partners.
“The C-CAMP Agri CoE, launched in 2019, has promoted over 100 deep science and deep tech-based solutions over the years. These innovations can potentially transform Indian agriculture and redefine how we view sustainability in agriculture. We are going beyond farming practice changes to commercial viability, scalability, and mass-scale adoption of tech,” said Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO and Director, C-CAMP.
Mr. Saiyed added that with the Bayer partnership, the CoE aims to increase industry engagement and participation in the innovation and go-to-market process in the complex agricultural ecosystem.
The primary objectives of the agreement include startup identification, mentorship, hand-holding support, deployments or pilots with Bayer’s deep R&D facilities, market access support, and co-development partnerships for mutually selected technologies.
“It also lays down a framework to explore potential investment or commercial partnerships such as licenses or technology transfers to enable and facilitate the idea-to-product journey of emerging agricultural technologies,” C-CAMP said.
