{"id":4428,"date":"2021-01-21T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:28:00","slug":"infineon-to-foster-local-entrepreneurship-in-green-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/infineon-to-foster-local-entrepreneurship-in-green-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Infineon to foster local entrepreneurship in green agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Infineon to foster local entrepreneurship in green agriculture
<\/strong>In collaboration with Startup India on Motor Drive Design Challenge for solar pumps<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infineon Technologies, a world leader in semiconductors, today announced the commencement of its \u2018Infineon Solar Pump Motor Drive Challenge 2021′ initiative to encourage affordable and reliable solar powered irrigation systems for farmers \u2013 design and manufactured locally. Organized in collaboration with Startup India, AGNIi – housed under Invest India and in partnership with Avnet India, the program invites the industry, SMEs and Startups to participate and compete for the best design in motor drive solution for solar pumps.
India is an agrarian country with almost 16 percent contributed to its GDP via agriculture, and more than 41 percentof the country\u2019s workforce employed in this sector. A great boon for the environment, enablement of solar pumps across the country will lessen the burden on grid infrastructure, decrease reliance on imported crude and improve farmers\u2019 livelihood.
India\u2019s agriculture is primarily dependent on diesel powered pumps which contribute to rising emmisions and greenhouse gases. Current pump manufacturing  produces traditional irrigation pumps but microelectronics is still new to this industry. Solar pump manufacturers rely on overseas suppliers for drives, hampering build-up of local competence and ecosystem. To reverse the effects, it is integral to build energy efficient and cost effective motor drive solutions for pumps locally.
\u201cDeveloping viable solutions for solar pump motor drives will enable local manufacturers in India to reduce overall dependency on imports. With a complete ecosystem in place, India has the potential to become a global lead in the solar pump industry,\u201d said Vivek Mahajan, Vice President & Division Head for Industrial Power Control, Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific. He further added, \u201cBesides supporting the Government of India\u2019s countrywide \u2018Atmanirbhar Bharat\u2019, \u2018Make In India\u2019 & \u2018PM-KUSUM\u2019 initiatives, we are making life easier and greener with microelectronics from Infineon.\u201d
Registrations are open until 14 March 2021, post which selected registrants will have another month to submit a design concept. In the final round, 10 shortlisted participants develop a working solution, with support from Infineon and partners, and will present to the jury comprising of senior management from Infineon. Apart from attractive awards, the winner will get an opportunity to access the fast growing pump drive market through working with leading industry players to further develop their product for manufacturing.
Infineon has been actively engaging with the startup and entrepreneur ecosystem in India since 2017. Over the past few years, the company has partnered with the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) at Niti Aayog and various incubators across India including Electropreneur Park, NSRCEL and AIC-Sangam to foster and nurture promising start-ups and drive tomorrow\u2018s solutions addressing some key societal concerns like climate change. Most recently, Infineon has been actively funding technology-based healthcare solutions developed by premier institutes to enable India to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interested applicants can apply here; www.infineon.com\/designchallenge2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Infineon Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infineon Technologies AG is a world leader in semiconductor solutions that make life easier, safer and greener. Microelectronics from Infineon are the key to a better future. In the 2020 fiscal year (ending 30 September), Infineon reported revenue of more than \u20ac8.5 billion with a workforce of some 46,700 people worldwide. Following the acquisition of the US company Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in April 2020, Infineon is now a global top 10 semiconductor company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infineon to foster local entrepreneurship in green agricultureIn collaboration with Startup India on Motor Drive Design Challenge for solar pumps  Infineon Technologies, a world leader in semiconductors, today announced the commencement of its \u2018Infineon Solar Pump Motor Drive Challenge 2021′ initiative to encourage affordable and reliable solar powered irrigation systems for farmers \u2013 design and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anolinfotech.com\/Pumpsindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}