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Grants

NABARD Rural Innovation Fund and Farm Sector Promotion Fund

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

Grant and soft-loan support for innovative, risky and unproven rural livelihood and farm-sector projects. Amounts are project-specific and sanctioned by NABARD regional offices. NABARD also runs NABVENTURES, a separate agri and food venture fund that takes equity.

Funder

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Proposals are received round the year by NABARD regional offices; specific windows are notified regionally.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Individuals, NGOs, cooperatives, producer organisations, agri-startups and rural institutions working on innovations in agriculture and rural livelihoods.

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Source. https://www.nabard.org/

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