The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI) known to farmers as Pusa Institute is the pioneering institution set up in 1905, now a constituent institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in the Department of Agricultural Research & Education of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, Government of India.
The Zonal Technology Management & Business Planning and Development (ZTM-BPD) Unit is the one-stop show window of ICAR-IARI to connect public sector agri-technologies to the corporate world and medium and small enterprises (MSMEs) in a business mode giving due importance to the intellectual property management, commercialization and incubation. The aim is to encourage, protect, market and license the technologies developed by agricultural scientists to the industry with a focus on incubation process including Start-Ups and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO)