SKUAST-K commercializes lactobacillus-based probiotic poultry feed for nationwide production

SRINAGAR, JULY 10: In a significant leap for animal biotechnology and agricultural innovation, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir today officially licensed its groundbreaking technology — a genetically modified Lactobacillus plantarum NC8 construct designed as a probiotic additive in poultry feed - to Kolkata-based Invati Creations Private Limited.

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The innovative and patented product is set to be commercialised across the country under the brand name 'Salnil.'

The "Technology License Agreement for its various innovative Signing Ceremony' was projects. He said term partnership aimed biotechnology. SKUASTconducted virtually via SKUAST-K is the No.1 at revolutionising the K's Lactobacillus-based videoconferencing. It among the 75 SAUs in poultry feed industry, he probiotic, now to be was the first of its kind the country in innovasaid.

digital signing ceremony tion with 85 patents and Prof Haroon R Naik, transform poultry proheld by SKUAST-K, 75 startups registered in Director Research, duction by fostering where Prof Nazir Ahmad the last few years. SKUAST-K, in his healthier birds, potenGanai, Vice-Chancellor, Earlier, Dr Vinita remarks, underscored healthier birds, potenSKUAST-K; Dr Jitendra Jindal, DGM & Head of the significance of this tially reducing the Kumar, MD, BIRAC; and Intellectual Property technology transfer for reliance on antibiotics, Mukesh Agarwal, CEO, and Technology the food industry. and championing susInvati Creations Pvt Ltd, Management at the Managing Director of tainable agricultural formally appended their Biotechnology Industry BIRAC, Dr Jitendra practices.