Commercial

• To improve / scale – up laboratory processes
• Commercialization of laboratory Know – how
• Develop technologies in priority areas
• Design and engineer laboratory processes to commercial scale
• Provide technology development support for setting up Pilot Plants
• Participate in equity to facilitate formation of new ventures using indigenous technologies
• Provide techno – commercial financial support to entrepreneurs commercializing indigenous technologies
• Execute turn – key projects based on indigenous technologies
• Assist export marketing of products of licensee companies.

Promotional

• Promotional and commercialization of inventions
• Arrange complimentary finance for further development through venture capital fund
• Development and promotion of rural technology
• Identify, development and prove selected rural technologies
• Assist in commercialization of selected rural technologies

Dissemination of Information on Technology and its transfer to Industry

• Provide information on indigenous and foreign technologies
• Organize training programmes for technology development and transfer
• Hold exhibition, publish periodicals, arrange audio-visuals to popularize indigenous technologies
• “THBP Processes”- A publication brought out quarterly, contains lists of available processes classified according to various disciplines of technology.
• Various other pamphlets and booklets are also brought out on selected and successful THBP technologies from time to time.
• THAR BIOTECH PVT. LTD as a service organization constantly endeavors to encourage inventive talent in the country and promote development and utilization of results of indigenous research with a view to accelerate the technologies and economic self-reliance of the nation.

• Information on the latest technologies.
• An objective assessment of the commercial potential of inventions.
• Identification of potential manufacturers.
• Negotiation of licensing agreements.
• Consultancy to entrepreneurs, firms, NGOs.

• Genetic improvement, cultivation, production and chemical processing of economically important medicinal, nutraceutical, essential oil, dye, gum and agrochemical yielding plants.
• Characterization of biodiversity and conservation of genetic resources of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) and other plants of interest.
• Defining genes pertaining to improved varieties.
• Development and commercialization of phytocellular technologies for plant compounds of pharmaceutical value.
• Production of seeds and other propagating materials of selected genotypes of domesticated MAPs.
• Formulation of the products of common use for rural development.
• Technologies for utilization of agro-wastes of industrial plants. Building up of MAP related databases.
• Development of human resources for R&D in the basic and applied areas of MAP Science.

The main achievements revolve around the following activities:

• Domestication and development of improved cultivars and agronomic practices for indigenous medicinal and aromatic plants.
• Introduction of exotic medicinal and aromatic plants of commercial importance.
• Development of process technologies and extension of know-how among the farmers, entrepreneurs and industry.

• Development of improved varieties and related 3agro technologies for the medicinal and aromatic plants of national and international importance using both plant breeding and genetic engineering methods.
• Efficient utilization of cultivable land including waste marginal, and dry lands through development of appropriate technologies.
• Development of genetically engineered edible vaccines/ plants and fourth generation antibiotic(s).
• Plant molecular biology and biotechnology studies on secondary metabolites.
• Construction of pest resistant medicinal and aromatic plants to control losses in cultivation from nematodes, insects and diseases.
• Bioprospection for photo chemically active principles against human pathogenic viruses, baxteria, fungi, parasites and agricultural and stored food pests.
• Training programme for R&D personnel, farmers, entrepreneurs for extension and focusing of research efforts and production of medicinal and aromatic plant materials.
• Gene Bank for commercially important medicinal and aromatic plants.