Newsflash 5

India’s first agri-biotechnology institute gets going:
The autonomous institute, the National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), an ambitious project of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, is likely to be ready in the next three years. The interim facility in Mohali is partially operational and will be fully functional in next six months. The one of its kind institute aims at catalysing the transformation of agri-food sector in India. The facility would prepare value-added products based on agriculture and undertake new researches related to agriculture.
The institute, alongwith bio-processing unit and biotech park, would be spread over 130 acres at Knowledge City at Mohali.
Nabi Executive Director Rakesh Tuli said: “Nabi would be co-located with BPU that would be set up under DBT and an agri-food biotech park (ABP) would be set up under public-private partnership. The Nabi, BPU and ABP would therefore comprise an Agri-Food Biotech cluster that would act as a “biotechnology hub” in the region.

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