{"id":26302,"date":"2024-09-04T03:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26302"},"modified":"2025-04-08T01:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:38:22","slug":"agrisure-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agrisure-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"AgriSURE Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About AgriSURE Fund:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agri Fund for Start-ups &amp; Rural Enterprises<\/strong> (AgriSURE) is an innovative fund which is a pioneering step toward revolutionizing the agricultural landscape in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus area:<\/strong> It mainly focuses on technology-driven, high-risk, high-impact ventures.<\/li>\n<li>It is designed to fuel growth and foster innovation in the agricultural and rural start-up ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding Pattern:<\/strong> A Blended capital <strong>fund of \u20b9750 crore<\/strong> with <strong>SEBI Registered Category II<\/strong>, Alternative Investment Fund (AIF), contributions from the Government of India is \u20b9250 crore, NABARD is \u20b9250 crore, and \u20b9250 crore is being mobilized from banks, insurance companies, and private investors.<\/li>\n<li>Its main focus areas include promoting innovative, technology-driven initiatives in agriculture, enhancing the farm produce value chain, creating new rural ecosystem linkages and infrastructure, generating employment and <strong>supporting Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The fund would <strong>encourage entrepreneurship<\/strong> through IT-based solutions and machinery rental services for farmers, driving sustainable growth and development in the agricultural sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NABVENTURES <\/strong>a fully owned subsidiary of NABARD will act as the <strong>fund manager.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a special investment category that differs from conventional investment instruments. AIF is any fund established in India which is a privately pooled investment vehicle that collects funds from sophisticated investors, both Indian or foreign, for investing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2051466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Union Agriculture Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Launches AgriSURE Fund<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgriSURE Fund  is an innovative fund which is a pioneering step toward revolutionizing the agricultural landscape in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}