Coimbatore: In an effort to expose agriculture scholars to the start-up ecosystem, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has started ‘Agpreun’, an agricultural entrepreneurship club underneath the directorate of the university’s agribusiness construction.
The club, which was on the anvil for the past three years, was formally inaugurated on March 16. It seeks to make argi scholars marketers through specializing in selling ‘minimal viable merchandise’.
Speaking in regards to the scholars’ start-up projects, P Jayaraman, a TNAU alumnus and an entrepreneur, who could also be a member of TNAU agribusiness directorate (ABD) says, “It is something which would attempt to solve a real-time drawback in agriculture. The mission would need an funding of Rs 2 lakh to Rs to 3 lakh.”
The projects will focus on organic, affordable and easy gardening in city areas. One such start-up thought is vertical gardening and indoor landscaping. The mission is the brain child of Surya Kiran Vaddadi, 22, and Veera Babu Pulla-final 12 months B Tech horticulture scholars in the university.
“We might think there is no air pollution indoors. But the wall paints we use emit Sulphur dioxide. Our startup thought’s aim is to purify the air and absorb poisonous gases through planting house vegetation like syngonium,” Surya Kiran explains. He mentioned inside two months he would finalise the speculation and release it.
Likewise S Satyashree, 21 and Sowmiya Ravi, 21, final 12 months B Tech horticulture scholars at TNAU have come up with ready-to-grow organic mushroom kits. They say they would plunge into their entrepreneurial mission once they graduate.
The duo had their Eureka second after they did an experiential learning route in mushroom farming. “We wanted to be marketers from the start and that’s why we took horticulture,” Satyashree says. “We selected mushroom cultivation as they are hidden treasures,” she explains.
Sowmiya mentioned that regardless that there are numerous ready-to-grow mushroom kits available in the market, the duo strategized through making it extra efficient. A completely organic mushroom kit that can be easily-grown at houses is their distinctive selling level. One has to only open a slit on the kit and water the mushroom compost. In 10 days he/she will harvest mushrooms at home, they mentioned. “While other commercial kits yield 400 grams to 500 grams of mushrooms for 1.5kg of paddy straw substrate, ours has been confirmed to yield virtually 1kg mushrooms for the same quantity of substrate,” Sowmiya says.
The projects will even have iterative modelling, during which they'll be bettered with each segment the usage of manageable budgets. Satyashree and Sowmiya got technical improve for his or her mission from mushroom analysis and coaching centre at the university. For now, they have collaborated with every other company to market their product on-line.
“The directorate basically creates a mindset in scholars to begin own businesses through coaching programmes,” R Murugesan, director of ABD says. It also tries to build self belief in them to take in own businesses. “We not best assist them with ideation, but in addition guide them in refining their generation anyplace necessary,” he concludes.
Nurturing skills
Agpreun has 63 pupil contributors from UG, PG and analysis pupil levels. The club these days has 15 projects.
What scholars do in the club:
Idea diffusion- Pitch business ideas
Minimum viable product (MVP) generation – Mentors and business professionals assist scholars translate ideas into projects
Experiential learning programme - Courses learnt are translated to business opportunities
Industry connect- Industry professionals provide improve for pupil's start-ups
Ignition fund - TNAU alumni and business contributors provide ignition budget for pupil's startups
The club, which was on the anvil for the past three years, was formally inaugurated on March 16. It seeks to make argi scholars marketers through specializing in selling ‘minimal viable merchandise’.
Speaking in regards to the scholars’ start-up projects, P Jayaraman, a TNAU alumnus and an entrepreneur, who could also be a member of TNAU agribusiness directorate (ABD) says, “It is something which would attempt to solve a real-time drawback in agriculture. The mission would need an funding of Rs 2 lakh to Rs to 3 lakh.”
The projects will focus on organic, affordable and easy gardening in city areas. One such start-up thought is vertical gardening and indoor landscaping. The mission is the brain child of Surya Kiran Vaddadi, 22, and Veera Babu Pulla-final 12 months B Tech horticulture scholars in the university.
“We might think there is no air pollution indoors. But the wall paints we use emit Sulphur dioxide. Our startup thought’s aim is to purify the air and absorb poisonous gases through planting house vegetation like syngonium,” Surya Kiran explains. He mentioned inside two months he would finalise the speculation and release it.
Likewise S Satyashree, 21 and Sowmiya Ravi, 21, final 12 months B Tech horticulture scholars at TNAU have come up with ready-to-grow organic mushroom kits. They say they would plunge into their entrepreneurial mission once they graduate.
The duo had their Eureka second after they did an experiential learning route in mushroom farming. “We wanted to be marketers from the start and that’s why we took horticulture,” Satyashree says. “We selected mushroom cultivation as they are hidden treasures,” she explains.
Sowmiya mentioned that regardless that there are numerous ready-to-grow mushroom kits available in the market, the duo strategized through making it extra efficient. A completely organic mushroom kit that can be easily-grown at houses is their distinctive selling level. One has to only open a slit on the kit and water the mushroom compost. In 10 days he/she will harvest mushrooms at home, they mentioned. “While other commercial kits yield 400 grams to 500 grams of mushrooms for 1.5kg of paddy straw substrate, ours has been confirmed to yield virtually 1kg mushrooms for the same quantity of substrate,” Sowmiya says.
The projects will even have iterative modelling, during which they'll be bettered with each segment the usage of manageable budgets. Satyashree and Sowmiya got technical improve for his or her mission from mushroom analysis and coaching centre at the university. For now, they have collaborated with every other company to market their product on-line.
“The directorate basically creates a mindset in scholars to begin own businesses through coaching programmes,” R Murugesan, director of ABD says. It also tries to build self belief in them to take in own businesses. “We not best assist them with ideation, but in addition guide them in refining their generation anyplace necessary,” he concludes.
Nurturing skills
Agpreun has 63 pupil contributors from UG, PG and analysis pupil levels. The club these days has 15 projects.
What scholars do in the club:
Idea diffusion- Pitch business ideas
Minimum viable product (MVP) generation – Mentors and business professionals assist scholars translate ideas into projects
Experiential learning programme - Courses learnt are translated to business opportunities
Industry connect- Industry professionals provide improve for pupil's start-ups
Ignition fund - TNAU alumni and business contributors provide ignition budget for pupil's startups
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