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Integrated Annual Report 2020-21 Building Competitive Edge 60-146 147-300
with Innovation

Agri sciences

InTeLLeCTUAL CAPITAL Innovation Centre – Bengaluru RICH (Crop Care)
Building Competitive edge with Innovation Key developments in FY 2020-21 Way forward
Gap analysis exercise to strengthen innovation funnel
Strengthening pipelines for Formulations, Reverse Engineering and
Strengthen platform technologies for customised water soluble Contract Manufacturing
our innovation leadership stems from rich eight decades of science knowledge. our expert team of scientists fertiliser (WSF) formulations for foliar and fertigation applications New herbicide formulations with differentiated weed control and
devoid of phytotoxicity
are continually undertaking research and collaborating with global institutions and academia to develop better Launches New Product concepts for Crop Nutrition and biopesticides
products for delivering value to customers and focussing on next Gen cutting-edge technologies. These innovations Kriman: A fungicide combination formulation for Chilli and Tomato Flow chemistry capability
are ensuring our business are science-differentiated and sustainable in the long run. Eevee: An Insecticide and fungicide combination formulation for
Rice and Tomato Enhance revenue contribution of new products in Crop Nutrition
Water Soluble Fertilisers: Aquafert Foliar – Vegetables & Aquafert business to 20%+
Fertigation – Grapes Enhance presence across all segments of Specialty Fertilisers,
Micronutrients: Boron ethanolamine (Flowbor) especially WSF
Plant Growth Regulator: GroSmart Collaborations and alliances to build differentiated products
[Gibberellic acid 0.001%] Innovative approaches to formulation by leveraging internal
capabilities

Agri sciences

Innovation Centre – Bengaluru (seeds)
Key developments in FY 2020-21 Way forward
sDGs impacted our R&D centres and their progress GMS marker development and deployment in Cotton & Chilli RGA technologies across crops
TCL Innovation Centre (IC) – Pune Artificial blast nursery for pearl millet Building capabilities for ML tools by leveraging the CoE for data
Key developments in FY 2020-21 Way forward Innovative Field Rapid Generation Advancement (RGA) in Rice analytics and ML
Basic Chemistry Products Basic Chemistry Products In Planta GOT using markers-innovation Initiate product-driven projects and develop microbial Crop
Development of iron premix Development of new Salt category Launches Care solution
technology for double fortified Salt (i.e. pharmaceutical grade Salt) for MM9344 in maize full maturity segment
consumer and industry needs MP7111 in pearl millet early maturity segment
specialty Products
Performance Materials Commercialise iron premix technology MP7366 pearl millet hybrid got notified by ICAR and has high
Delivering peace of Qualification of HDS with leading tyre levels of Zn & Fe
mind to farmers manufacturers specialty Products
Performance Materials
Development of new grade of Silica Continuing application support of
In FY 2020-21, RICH launched for oral care and elastomeric garment current HDS grade Silica for better
two new products for application customer connect and market
Crop Protection that have Nutrition Sciences penetration new Initiative at the Cotton: GMs Forward
gained popularity among Development of synergistically acting Development of Specialty Silica 163 Innovation Centre breeding (FB) strategies
farmers. Kriman, a fungicidal symbiotics for immunity (human clinical Nutrition Sciences Capability building in synthetic biology and methods
combination formulation for trial done); long-chain oligofructose; Improve yield and reduce the variable Cumulative patents filed – simulation, gene synthesis and
effective disease and resistance and enzyme encapsulation technology cost for FOS overexpression for enzymes Developed for rapid line
management in grape and with better thermo-stability to enhance Established applied computational biology development. FB method successfully
tomato crops and provided feed shelf life Developing technical capabilities Centre of Excellence (CoE) to leverage the validated in F2 and F3 breeding
in spray drying, protein and
yields improvement of about Development of cosmetic application enzyme extraction, purification and 47 data analytics across the R&D centres to cycles using ~9,000 segregants from
10% in both the crops. Eevee, of FOS for healthy skin characterisation expedite R&D process multiple pedigree crosses (close
a combination insecticide and Plant Variety Protection (PVP) in the to 100% selection accuracy was
fungicide formulation, is a first Development of natural extracts with process of registration under PPV & FRA Established an IPR (CoE) to leverage the IPR identified). This integrated marker
of its kind product in India for high bioactives for food and pharma function across business and R&D centres breeding method can reduce ~50%
rice and tomato for both insect industry Formed Champions of Change teams of the time for GMS line development
pest and disease management. Seeding of synthetic biology, creating to drive transformation in the areas of and save huge cost for commercial
It gave an improved yield of a framework and identification of 4 happiness at work, collaboration, safety hybrid Seed production through GMS
about 10% in both. potential products every year.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals and sustainability

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