Key Points
• NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) , and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) rolled out their first AgriTech Challenge cohort for its innovative Agri-tech program.
• This has been done to help smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa.
• It is a part of the South-South Innovation platform launched earlier this year.

NITI Aayog, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have rolled out their first AgriTech challenge cohort.

The challenge cohort was for its ambitious innovative Agri-tech programme that aims to help smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa to address their challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic.

The event was held on 21st December, 2021.

AIM, NITI Aayog in partnership with UNCDF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rabo Foundation launched a South-South innovation platform to enable cross-border exchange of innovations, insights and investments in July this year 2021.

Through this platform, cross-border collaborations among emerging markets across India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia would be enabled.

The Cohort represents a diverse range of solutions across the value chain of the smallholder farmer, including soil analysis, farm management & intelligence, dairy ecosystem, carbon credits, solar-based cold storage, digital marketplace, fintech and livestock insurance.