NRDC signs Licence Agreement with M/S Nagarjuna Agro Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.
for Soil Moisture Indicator of Indian Council of Agriculture Research
(ICAR), as part of “Make In India”
Chairman
and Managing Director, NRDC, Dr. H. Purushotham informed that NRDC has
been appointed as the nodal agency for commercialising/ licensing the
technical know-how for manufacture of Soil Moisture Indicator in the
country.
Soil Moisture Indicator is a simple and user-friendly electronic device
developed by the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, an Institute under the
Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) System located in
Coimbatore. The Intellectual Property Rights of the technology are
being protected under Indian Patent and Design Acts.
The technical know-how has now been licensed to M/s Nagarjuna Agro
Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. The company plans to take this
technology forward to all the parts of the country through a network of
dealers and also promoting through different support schemes of the
Department of Agricultural and other Allied Departments in various
States of the country. This initiative of NRDC aids the “Make in India”
Mission of the Government of India. NRDC has licensed more than 200
technologies to Start-ups, MSMEs and Corporates in the Agriculture
Sector.
The formal Licence Agreement was signed by Dr. H. Purushotham, CMD on
behalf of NRDC and Smt. Neeta Zanvar, Director of M/s Nagarjuna Agro
Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.
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KSP/VM
(Release ID :138698)
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