SRINAGAR, Nov. 17 -- A student-led start-up "M/s FaimFarms P Ltd" mentored under the SKUAST-K Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (SKIIE) Centre Shalimar Srinagar has been awarded a Rs 5 lakh grant-in-aid by ICAR-Pusa, New Delhi, in recognition of its promising and disruptive innovation in the Agriculture sector.

The grant, sanctioned under ICAR's support for youth-led agricultural innovations, will be used to advance the start-up's ongoing work on a Ready to Eat/Serve centric innovation developed at SKUAST-K Innovation Centre in support with Division of Food Sciences & Technology.

The Funding will support prototype refinement, field validation, and early-stage commercialization activities, enabling the team to translate research ...