Open Challenge Program (OCP) 1.0 at SmartAgri CoE, Bhilai
by SmartAgri CoE, Bhilai
STPI's SmartAgri CoE at Bhilai runs an open challenge for AgriTech startups, with incubation, lab access, mentoring, and seed funding of up to Rs. 35 lakh.
SmartAgri CoE is an AgriTech-focused Centre of Entrepreneurship set up by Software Technology Parks of India at Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Part of STPI's national network of domain-specific Centres of Entrepreneurship, it works to build a rounded ecosystem for innovation, R&D, and entrepreneurship in agriculture technology, with a core mission of solving farmers' problems in the region, lifting productivity, profitability, and resilience through technology-led startups.
Its focus areas are deliberately practical for Chhattisgarh's agrarian economy: digital farming, smart techniques for crop protection and management, forecasting through predictive analytics, and raising off-season farmer income with hydroponics and protected cultivation. Its flagship intake is the Open Challenge Program (OCP) 1.0, through which AgriTech startups join with funding, mentorship, market access, and incubation, and the centre offers infrastructure, leadership, mentoring, training, and research support, with 360-degree help from ideation to early revenue. Incubated teams gain seed-funding facilitation, mentoring from domain and industry experts, market linkages, and physical incubation at STPI Bhilai, designed to de-risk early AgriTech ventures and connect them to the agricultural value chain, government schemes, and customers.
Early-stage AgriTech startups, student founders, and innovators in digital agriculture, crop management, predictive analytics, hydroponics, and allied areas, especially those solving real problems for farmers in Chhattisgarh and central India, benefit most. It is online at stpi.in.
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