Venue: Video Conference Hall, Admin Building, ICAR-IIHR Date: 25.08.2023
Last date for receipt of application: 24.08.2023
Time of training (Offline): 9.00 am to 5.30 pm, Training Fees Rs. 2000/- Offline includes theory and practical sessions
Time of training(Online): 9.00 am to 1.30 pm, Training Fees Rs. 1,000/- Online includes theory sessions only
Course Director
Dr. G.Selvakumar
Principal Scientist,
Div. of Natural Resources
Course Co-Director
Dr. D. Kalaivanan Senior Scientist,
Div. of Natural Resources
Course Co-ordinators
Dr. Dhananjaya M. V.
Principal Scientist, Div. of Veg. Crops
Organized by
Business Entrepreneurship and Start-up Support through Technology in Horticulture (BESST-HORT) a NIDHI – TBI of ICAR-IIHR Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru-560089.
About ICAR-IIHR
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, a premier research institute under Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi established in 1967 has a sprawling campus of 263 ha at Hessaraghatta, Bangalore.
The institute working on more than over 54 horticultural crops for the last 53 years has played a pivotal role in bridging food security gaps through its dedicated and relentless research efforts towards crop productivity enhancement in a number of horticultural crops.
• In the last five decades of its existence has released and popularized over 300 varieties of horticultural crops.
• Also released 112 technologies with a view of increase quality and productivity.
In an effort to take these innovative technologies forward, ICAR-IIHR initiated a technology commercialization and incubation facility for promotion of entrepreneurship lead growth in horticulture
About BESST-HORT
BESST-HORT is a Technology Business Incubator of ICAR-IIHR, Catalyzed and supported by NSTEDB Division, DST, Gol, for facilitating incubation of new start-ups, entrepreneurs & enterprises for innovative technologies by providing necessary technical & business mentoring, physical infrastructure, networking support, facilities and services to test and validate their venture before successful establishment of their scaled up enterprises. is BESST HORT conducting a series of hands-on training programmes to help aspiring entrepreneurs to develop viable skills which can be converted in to an enterprise. As part of this, a paid-up training programme on Production of Arka Fermented Cocopeat & its use as a substrate for soilless cultivation of vegetables is scheduled to be conducted at ICAR-IIHR, Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on 25.08.2023
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