is India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.
NIF scouts, supports and spawns' grassroots innovations developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from formal sector. It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain... Read more
Our #SandipPyaz onion variety, developed by Shri #SandipGhole from Pune, #Maharashtra, is thriving in 10 OFT locations in Arian village, Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh. It showed exceptional disease resistance, no bolting or splitting, and superior traits. @IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/5Ivx4ToGwH
— NIF - India (@nifindia) May 15, 2024
Farmers' on-farm trials of #SandipPyaz and #Sona40 onion varieties near #Ratlam, #MadhyaPradesh are thriving. Varieties show excellent bulb weight, diameter, and yield, with non-splitting bulbs. Their color, consistency, and size make them profitable. @IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/V32dJuCigS
— NIF - India (@nifindia) May 14, 2024