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Why we picked it This is the official portal for grant-in-aid up to INR 25 lakh (seed) and INR 5 lakh (idea stage) routed through a network of 24 agribusiness incubators (R-ABIs) sitting inside agricultural universities across the country, not in the metros. You incubate at your nearest R-ABI, which means proximity to the local farming problem is literally the eligibility path, and open cohorts (for example CSK Himachal Pradesh and IIT Kharagpur) list live deadlines you can apply to right now.
RKVY-RAFTAAR Innovation and Agri-Entrepreneurship Programme
From Government of India by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 15 min read
- Grant-in-aid up to INR 25 lakh seed and INR 5 lakh idea stage, released in milestone-linked installments, so it is non-dilutive money for agri and rural ventures
- 24 R-ABIs spread across state agricultural universities mean the incubator is often near your base, not a metro you have to move to
- Applications go through individual R-ABI cohorts with rolling deadlines, giving founders outside big cities a direct, thin-competition entry point