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Growth of food processing sector acquiring momentum across country: expert Agriculture and allied sectors are emerging as potential fields of entrepreneurship as the disruptions caused by COVID-19 have hit employment opportunities hugely. While loss of jobs and declining profits worry many, the pandemic has opened a vast field of opportunities in agribusiness, food processing and food delivery. Many youngsters are entering the field now, says Dr. K.P Sudheer, Head of the ABI KAU (Agri Business Incubator under the Kerala Agricultural University). “Kerala has many successful agri startups no...

For pre-seed stage and seed-stage activities A total of 16 start-ups incubated under KAU-RABI, the agri business incubator of the Kerala Agricultural University, have bagged Central funding of ₹1.95 crore for pre-seed stage and seed-stage activities. The first instalment of grant-in-aid was distributed by Agriculture Minister V.S. Sunil Kumar recently. Entrepreneurs KAU-RABI, established with aid from the RKVY-RAFTAAR (Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana – Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied sector Rejuvenation) scheme under the Ministry of Agriculture, is creating a new wave of...