A study on agribusiness incubation centres in Telangana

Efforts are made to understand the structure and functioning of the agribusiness incubators (ABIs) in Hyderabad. A structured questionnaire was framed for collection of data from incubators and incubatees from different ABIs. Based on the primary data and secondary data collected, we analyzed the socio economic profiles of the incubatees from different ABIs. The challenges faced by the agribusiness incubation centres were socio-cultural barriers related to incubatees and human resources, which were considered as the critical challenges faced while administrative issues and competition play insignificant role. Strategies like personal mentoring to the incubatees, focusing on market positioning and linkages, understanding of business environments, entrepreneurial ecosystem, linkage with educational institutes and industry, self-financing of incubators, incubation to the new incubators, networking of incubation centres, usage of technology and information, linking with ELP units of agricultural courses of university set up and going for public-private partnership models, are suggested for the agribusiness incubation ecosystem to function more efficiently.