Deadline: 20-Jan-21
The Agri India Hackathon has been announced which is the largest virtual gathering to create dialogues, and accelerate innovations in agriculture.
The Agri India Hackathon 2020 is organized by Pusa Krishi, ICAR – Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) & Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare.
With India’s expanding population, global climate change, and the current uncertain situation, the future of agriculture holds the opportunities & power to reshape our lives. The most important stakeholders from industries & government alongside India’s young bright minds, creative startups, and smart innovators will build new, fast, and frugal solutions to tackle the big questions we’re facing today at this national-level hackathon.
They are bringing together fresh perspectives, disruptive approaches, and cutting-edge research & knowledge. They believe in collaborative impact. Agri India Hackathon 2020 to be held online invites collaboration & participation from across the country and intersectional industries.
Objectives
- Create: Got an idea to solve the big problems in agriculture? Welcome, you belong here! Agri India Hackathon will be a digital pool of the most exciting, innovative, and futuristic ideas to address the pressing issues with new-age technology.
- Connect: Not just startups, students & youth, but even the giants from the industry, the world’s leading companies, financial institutions & policy-makers — everyone will be here!
- Collaborate: And the best part — each one is building solutions, asking big questions, and learning. You will meet the best of the best people changing the agriculture, business & technology landscape.
Focus Areas
The goal: Collective impact with new-age, fast & frugal innovations to navigate these focus areas.
- Mechanization of Farming & Allied Activities.
- Precision Agriculture including applications of sensors, WSN, ICT, Artificial Intelligence, IoT & drone.
- Supply Chain & Agriculture Logistics.
- Post-Harvest, Food Technology & Value addition.
- Waste to Wealth & Green Energy in Agriculture.
Benefits
- Cash Prize – 24 Best Innovations from different focus areas will be awarded a Cash Prize Of INR 1,00,000 each.
- Incubation Support – The Winning Innovations will get an exclusive preference for Incubation Support, Pre-Seed & Seed-Stage Funding of 5 Lakhs & 25 Lakhs respectively at any one of the 29 RABIs, subject to assessment by the independent RABI.
- Field Trial – The Winning Innovations will have the opportunity of field trial and also access Technology Validation from our network of institutions (If they opt for Incubation Support).
Eligibility Criteria
- Indian nationals only.
- Students studying at any Indian university/ institute.
- Start-ups, farmers, and professionals/ employed individuals.
- Solo founders, entrepreneurs, and other individuals.
Evaluation Criteria
- Evaluation by Experts: All the submitted applications would be reviewed by their evaluators under different focus areas. Each application will be assessed by a set of evaluators to ensure the best submission gets selected for the next round.
- Parameters of Innovation: The applications will be evaluated on different parameters, including but not limited to the market need, the novelty of the idea/innovation, stage of development, scalability, potential impact, technical & financial feasibility, commercialization capacity, the team, and the overall business plan.
- Evaluator’s Rights: The evaluators reserve the right to select or reject any submission without assigning any reasons whatsoever and without thereby incurring any liability to the participant(s) whatsoever.
For more information, visit https://www.agriindiahackathon.in/