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BIRAC Success Stories | 2016 Sea6Energy

Key Highlights

* Jingo/ JingoNxg / Agrogain have
Breakthrough helped more than 100,000 farmers to
optimise crop yields.
• Sea6 demonstrated technical * Rs. 2.0 crores revenue generated in year
feasibility of producing Biofuel from 2015-16.
seaweed in year 2014. * Employment to ~30 technical professionals.
• Developed and launched an * Assisting the nation to move towards
agricultural biostimulant, Jingo in improved farm prosperity and food
year 2015. security.
• Biostimulants are a new class of natural * Four patents applied.
products (different from fertilizer or
pesticides ) which can stimulate plant
growth and increase crop yields by as
much as 20%.
• Two new products, Jingo-NXG and
Agrogain launched in year 2016.

BIRAC’s Support

Laboratory space and office space
were made available with the help
of supportive faculty of the DBT. This
foundational help was very crucial for
Sea6 in its early years. They received
their first funding from BIRAC under
the BIPP scheme and thereafter under
the BIG scheme.

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