New Delhi, March 19 -- : To boost India's bioeconomy ambition of $300 billion USD by 2030, the Minister of Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh, on Thursday, laid the foundation stone for a national-level facility at Chandigarh's National Agri-Food and Biomanufacturing Institute (NABI).
The platform called "Biofoundry" is set to be built in the next two years, with a total budget outlay of Rs 42 crores, according to an official statement from the ministry.
Agri-food biotechnology, including smart proteins, bio-inputs, and bio-based products, will be developed and scaled up after the infrastructural upgrades for bio-manufacturing at the planned national-level facility.
The BioFoundry will house large-scale fermenters, upstream and downs...