Sri BioAesthetics sets up Integrated AgribioTech Center in India

Hyderabad-based Srio BioAesthetics set up the Integrated AgribioTech Center at TSIIC at Sultanpur on the outskirts of Hyderabad at a 1.5-acre land with an investment of Rs 30 crore.  The facility is a first of its kind in R&D, Production and Service in India, exclusively with microbial technologies for agriculture, is slated for formal inauguration later this week.

Microbial technology is the production and use of economical bacteria, yeasts and viruses.

Sri Singireddy Niranjan Reddy, Agriculture Minister, T. Harish Rao, Health Minister to inaugurate the facility later this week.

The facility is aimed to cater to the needs of the farming community with quality biological agri inputs and testing services apart from conducting basic and applied research disclosed Dr KRK Reddy, Managing Director of Sri BioAestheticsPvt. Ltd in a press note issued in the city today.

The centre will be a place where scientists, researchers, and experts from various fields can come together to collaborate, exchange ideas, and find solutions. They are experts in handling discovery to commercialization-related matters.

KRK Reddy, the founder of Sri BioAesthetics Pvt.Ltd is a Doctorate from Kakatiya University, Post-Doctoral in Plant Biotechnology from Central the University of Hyderabad. He is also the president of BIPA (BioAgri Input Producers Association), one of the earliest BioAgri associations in the country. According to him, the new Integrated Agri Biotech, Center is aimed and focused on ″microbial technologies″ to develop solutions for current-day problems in modern agriculture. Dr Reddy’s passion for his favourite ″Microbiome″ has made him don this innovative and new technology platform and the Center.

The agricultural sector is facing challenges such as population explosion.  India is now the most populous nation in the world. We are also signatory to UN's SDG Goals.  Zero Hunger is one of them. We need to feed all. We need to increase production without damaging the environment.  Climate change, soil degradation, water scarcity etc are lurking large on the other side.  The Agri Input Producers must develop cost-effective green solutions.  The company has designed this Integrated Agri Biotech Center to be a hub of innovation, research, and product development. The company's aim is to find innovative solutions that will address the challenges that the agricultural sector is facing, with a focus on microbial biotechnology.

Microbial Biotechnology has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach agriculture and food production says Dr KRK Reddy. The Center that is coming up helps the company to develop new solutions for crop management that help the crops to tolerate disease and insect pests, drought, and other environmental stresses. It can also help the company to create more efficient and sustainable farming practices. The focus will be on ″one soil-one health″, where the soil is the basis for the survival of all forms of life on this planet earth, more so humans. Soil life and biodiversity are at threat due to decades of chemical usage and flood irrigation practices, he said.

Restoring the missing and essential qualities of soil is the first step on Srio BioAesthetics's way to reaching sustainable goals. Bringing back life to the soil is the primary objective through restoring and rebuilding soil organic matter, soil biological properties, biodiversity, improving carbon and water cycles, incorporation of biological nutrient recycling, soil regeneration and nitrogen fixation. Biological crop protection methods to preserve biodiversity, insect resistance management and low crop residues through microbial technologies.

In this light background, the company is also launching MyAgriBiome, a soil life analysis/assessment online platform for the benefit of farmers to understand their soil’s biological properties. The new initiative of the company is in tune with the new global trend of ″biological and regenerative agriculture″ an emerging and globally accepted food production and an environmentally responsive farming method

Keeping in mind the demand for the reduction of chemical inputs of each segment (nutrition, disease, insect and abiotic stress management) and a strong need for biological agri inputs by replacing or complementing with Organics and biologics without compromising the quantity and quality of the output- a holistic approach of crop management is required. AgribioTech Center is there to address this need, added Dr KRK Reddy.

The ongoing collaborative research projects soon result in developing products for drought stress, saline stress, improved nitrogen fixation, nano nutrients for effective nutrient use efficiency, and bio protection through nano bio fungicides. It is felt necessary to work together to create a sustainable and prosperous agricultural industry that can meet the needs of the world's population without compromising the environment.

On behalf of the Integrated Agri Biotech Centre, the company would like to extend an invitation to everyone here to join in this endeavour to work together to find solutions to the challenges facing the agricultural industry and to create a brighter future for generations to come.