India Agritech Incubation Network (IAIN)
India
Indian Agritech Incubation Network (IAIN) is an initiative by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Social Alpha that envisions to create an enabling ecosystem for innovators and entrepreneurs developing solutions for smallholder farmers in order to help them become more productive, profitable and empowered. IAIN will drive ecosystem-level collaborations to improve incomes of smallholder farmers, reduce input costs while improving quality, increase productivity at the farm level, reduce post-harvest losses and provide better market access including value chain enhancements.
Lead (category)
Private consortium
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Agritech, startup or SMEs capacity and enabling services
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
The programme design has an in-built focus on continuous learning and knowledge sharing through periodic stakeholder knowledge dissemination workshops and anecdotal case studies of field impact
Business and governance structure
IAIN adopts an integrated approach to foster ecosystem-level collaboration amongst state government, agricultural universities, corporates, industry bodies and grassroots resource institutions to ensure a seamless flow of knowledge, technology, and expertise to benefit the community and the start-ups
DI ICT-deliverables format
Face to face servicing
Interactive data exchanges
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
SMEs / agreprenuers
Startups
Farm organizations
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
A target to impact almost 50,000 farmers through 60 enterprises working on technological solutions for agriculture.
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over India
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution