Commercialisation of Farmer Innovations-Prospects and Retrospects

In the contemporary scenario, the adoption rate of farmer innovations and technologies by the farming community is higher than any other technology developed by scientific fraternity. The farm innovators plays a vital role in development of agriculture by adopting the need specific, location specific and cost effective innovative ideas in their own farming situation, since these innovations are cost effective, eco-friendly and easy to adopt technologies. Farmers develop these type of appropriate technologies/innovations to ease their work in a more practical way. Over the period of time, Indian farmers have generated various innovations at grass root level, which brought them good yields and made farming a profitable one. But, these innovations developed by the farmers in rural areas have not seen the light of adaptability due to non-commercialisation and lack of support from the government agencies in terms of technical and financial backstopping. To mainstream such innovative farmers’ efforts, the idea generation and incubation centres with free of cost should be established exclusively for the farmers to tap the innovative ideas of the farmers at grassroots level and also the developed farm innovations should be validated, scaled-up and commercialised by protecting the rights of innovative farmers for rural livelihoods.