Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture for Sustainable Development

Location : India

Date : 2025-11-17 09:00:00

Deadline to apply for the course: 10 November 2025
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About the course

Agriculture is a cornerstone of economic development, particularly in low- and middleincome countries. However, challenges such as limited access to technology, inefficient value chains, and lack of entrepreneurial capacity often hinder its potential. Innovation and entrepreneurship can address these challenges, ensuring sustainable development, improved livelihoods, and global food security. India’s success in promoting agribusiness innovation, startups, and public-private partnerships serves as a model for other nations, particularly those in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This course aims to build capacity among participants to develop sustainable agricultural systems and foster agribusiness entrepreneurship in their respective countries.

Target Participants

Participants can be from government departments (agriculture, trade, rural development), universities, NGOs, and private sectors involved in agriculture, food systems, and entrepreneurship. Policymakers, researchers, agribusiness professionals, and development practitioners from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa, and Latin America will benefit from this program.

Course Impact

Enhanced knowledge of agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship.

Practical skills to develop and implement agribusiness projects.

Understanding of sustainable practices for value chain development.

Country-specific action plans for fostering agribusiness innovation.

Strengthened networks for cross-border collaboration in sustainable agriculture.

Course Topics:

Introduction to agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship.

Key challenges in global and regional agriculture

Role of technology in transforming agriculture

Hands-on session: Digital tools for agriculture (e.g., AI and IoT)

Group discussion: Challenges in adopting technology in agriculture

Building sustainable agricultural value chains

Case studies: Successful value chain models in India

Workshop: Identifying gaps in value chains in participants' countries

Agribusiness startup development and incubation models

Field visit: Interaction with Indian agribusiness startups

Financing agribusiness startups: Opportunities and challenges

Public-private partnerships for agricultural innovation

Financing options for agri-startups. Role-play exercise Pitching to investors

Leadership and capacity building for sustainable agri-food systems

Workshop: Developing leadership strategies in agriculture

Policy frameworks for promoting agricultural innovation

Networking session with Indian policymakers and agribusiness leaders

Ecosystem building for agribusiness innovation

Mapping the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Hands-on session: Business model development for agribusiness startups

Educational qualifications

University degree in science, engineering, law, management, business management, economics, social studies, etc.

Work experience required

2 to 3 Years of experience.

Guidelines to Apply for the Course:

Create a login to apply for the course and furnish all the requisite information. Submit the application online and download the submitted application form

Take a printout of the submitted application form, get appropriate signatures at all the signature placeholders throughout the application form including the English proficiency certificate, medical report, candidate undertaking form and the Employer nomination form.

Scan the complete application document and submit the physical copies of the application form including the undertaking form and the employer nomination form to the Indian High commission in your country and e-mail the scanned copy of the executed application form to vishwambhar.duche@icrisat.org. with copy to babu.potta@icrisat.org.

Please note that we have very limited seats for the course and the eligible applications will be shortlisted by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India on First Come First Serve basis. Therefore, if you are interested, we recommend that you submit your application immediately without any delay.

In case you face any technical difficulties in applying for the course, such as portal issues, login issues or any website related errors, please screenshot the errors and email to vishwambhar.duche@icrisat.org. with copy to babu.potta@icrisat.org.

Approach and methodology of training

Experiential learning and field visits

Number of participants

35

Application

The fully sponsored program is exclusive to non-Indian international participants only.

ITEC: Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation

Note: The potential candidate after filling the form online, may need to submit copy of the filled application to Indian Embassy/consulate in their country for funding approval.

Apply for the course

The application can be accessed from the following link: Click here