Value added products of agricultural produce are traditionally depedant on quality and quantity of the produce available in open market. Value added agri product factories are thus dependent on their ability to procure from open market or at best through contract farming. A new concpet of Agri-factory is being introduced under this proposal where agri-produce lines will be developed as back integration to the value added agri-product lines. These agri-produce lines will provide quality, quantitiy and cost control; output of which will feed the value added agri-product lines. This will remove depedance on open agri-produce market. To improve time to market, market resileance and product independent manufacturing lines for value added agri-products Additive Manufacturing (AM) will be introduced for the first time in this sector, globally. Additionally, Additive Manufacturing will be used for production of some of the supply chain compenents (agri-produce line modules and agri-photonics componenets) as well to reduce cost of production. The centre will not only indegeinously develop the Agri-Factory concept but also indeginously develop Additive Manufacturing (AM) machines and materials to take global lead in the sector of Agricuture and Food Processing. Some advantages of the concept are:

• Quality and volume of agricultural line will be in control of food processing section.
• 3D printing is expected to reduce infrastructure cost, precision electronics cost and food processing cost.
• Modularity of infrastructure will ensure start small and grow to large industry.
• Industry driven economics for SME / MSME / Large factory.
• Indigenous machinery and supply chain will give industry leverage to tweak technology as per their requirements by the test bed repeatedly.
• Export quality products can be developed as per industry requirements and standards at low cost repeatedly.
• Lower R&D cost as the test bed will be funded by Governments.
• Successful agri-factory concept is expected to catapult Indian Agricutural sector to high tech industry and compete in global market effectively.