Agri Business Incubation Centre

"This institute believes in enabling farming communities to bring about significant changes in their lives by themselves."

Central Plantations Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod, Kerala an ICAR institute is functioning with the objective of enhancing entrepreneurship and improving the income and livelihood of farmers in coconut value chain. With the help of ABI entrepreneurs could make use of the laboratory, machinery and scientific assistance at the CPCRI for manufacturing marketable products. The institute has already procured machines required for the centre.

COCOCNUT
Cocos nucifera

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only known living species of the genus Cocos. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut.
ARECANUT
Areca catechu

Areca nut (Areca catechu), a tropical crop, is popularly known as betel nut, as its common usage in the country is for mastication with betel leaves. It is a palm tree species under the family of Arecaceae. It has commercial and economic importance not only in India but also in China and Southeast Asia.
COCOA
Theobroma cacao

Cocoa is the key ingredient in chocolate and chocolate confections. The cocoa bean is the seed of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), a tropical plant indigenous to the equatorial regions of the Americas. From the processed cocoa bean comes the fluid paste, or liquor, from which cocoa powder and chocolate are made.

The Agribusiness Incubation Centre at ICAR - Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod focuses on business ventures related to coconut, arecanut and cocoa by providing structured and formal entrepreneurship programmes, technology backstopping, financial guidance, and technical consultancy for establishment of production/processing units. It will support entrepreneurs to develop and nurture new ventures and will act as one stop solution for agri-business aspirants and also such an endeavour will consolidate the efforts of the institute to accomplish the demands of agro-industry, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.

ABI

Some ABI protocols

Coconut Processing, Virgin Coconut Oil (15), Coconut Chips (14), Kalparasa and Sugar (10), Kalpa Krunch (2) and Carbonated Tendernut Water(2). Another higher-end technology commercialized in the year 2016-17 was the Nanomatrix for Pheromone Delivery.

STRATERGY OF ABI

Entrepreneurs have their own ideas of making value-added products. These entrepreneurs often start working on their ideas but dropped it mid-way if anything went wrong, due to lack of guidance or equipment for research and development. It is in this context that CPCRI’s incubation centre would be useful.

the institute has value-added products from coconut such as virgin coconut oil by developing an indigenous technology and coconut chips. The virgin coconut oil extracted from fresh coconut kernels has export potential. It has medicinal and antioxidant properties.

AGRI-BUSINESS INCUBATON CENTRE (ABI)

SCOPE OF ABI:

Hand hold startups

promote commercialization of technologies

promote entrepreneurship

ACTIVITIES:

Scouting incubatees

Technology awareness - meetings/camps/exhibition/competitions/publicity

Technology transfer - MoA; Training; DPR; EDPs; etc.

Providing ABI facilities for interested incuabtees