2nd AGRI UDAAN a food and agribusiness accelerator program will be launched in New Delhi on Friday. Briefing media in New Delhi on Thursday, DDG ICAR N.S. Rathore said, the program focuses on catalyzing scale-up stage food and agribusiness startups through rigorous mentoring, industry networking and investor pitching. <br/><br/>He said this 6 month program is a unique platform for scale up stage innovators, entrepreneurs and startups in the Food and Agribusiness sectors. <br/><br/>Mr Rathore said the application will be available at www.aidea.naarm.org.in. He said applications will be evaluated by mentors from industry, business and partner organizations. <br/><br/>Top 40 startups will be shortlisted and allowed to pitch in front of panel of evaluators during cohort finalization programme. He said, out of these about 8 to 12 startups will be selected for final cohort for capacity building workshop.<br/><br/>Mr Rathore said AGRI UDAAN will be organised by NAARM, a-IDEA and IIM-A, CIIE in partnership with Caspian Inpact Investment and supported by DST.