The Agri India Hackathon 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.

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.

For more information, visit Agri India Hackathon.