Shitij is a year-long incubation program that nurtures early-stage startups with full-throttle capacity building, infrastructure, and other resources to solve the big challenges in agriculture with innovative solutions.

The program is designed to bring together innovators in an immersive 15-day mentoring program to learn, connect, and collaborate. They are further incubated in a 1-year program at Pusa Krishi, ICAR-IARI boosting their growth, network, and resources.