Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) - Agri-Next

KSUM's ₹38 crore initiative supporting 150 agri-tech startups with financial assistance, mentoring, and incubation, providing up to ₹25 lakh per startup. AgriNext runs under the Kerala Climate Resilient Agri Value Chain Modernization Project (KERA), a Department of Agriculture initiative backed by World Bank support, and is designed to help commercialize agri-tech products for over 40,000 farmers and agri-enterprises across the state. KSUM's stated goal is to identify roughly 150 distinct agricultural challenges over five years for startups to solve, and applications are submitted through the dedicated AgriNext portal rather than KSUM's general grants portal.