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Having been approached by galore prospective clients astatine the two-day Agri-Business Expo 2025 that concluded successful Chennai connected Sunday, start-ups promoted by the Centre of Excellence successful Biotechnology (COXBIT), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, are looking guardant to transforming probe outcomes into scalable ventures done entree to funding, mentorship, improvement support, and marketplace linkages.
Organised by the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Business astatine the Chennai Trade Centre, Nadambakkam, the Expo provided a strategical level for the start-ups and entrepreneurs to link with enactment networks and foster collaborations. According to the participants, the lawsuit has paved the mode for straight selling their products, alongside opening doors to caller agri-business opportunities.
Farmers, farmer-producer organisations, nutrient processing firms, exporters, earthy farming enthusiasts, students and the wide nationalist were apprised astir their innovations by the start-ups utilising COXBIT’s compartment space: M/s. Aviva Organics, M/s. Thennaivanam, M/s. Sakthi Fertilizer Company, M/s. Meridian Machine Works, M/s. Ziwwit Sustainable Technologies Pvt. Ltd., and M/s. CropTwin Agro Tech Pvt. Ltd.
Prospective clients evinced involvement successful aboriginal collaborations, TNAU Registrar and acting Vice-Chancellor R. Thamizh Vendan, and N. Senthil, Director, COXBIT, said.
The COXBIT besides showcased its precocious facilities. Envisaging improvement of ace progressive enzymes / biomolecules, biobased products, hormones for effect ripening, works maturation stimulants and akin bio-inputs for the commercialized payment of farmers, the 1.06 lakh-sq.ft. operation encompassing cognition and compartment abstraction is nether optimal utilisation of start-ups, pupil entrepreneurs and established companies for probe and improvement activities.
