1. Preservation of Agro Produce by Irradiation
   For increasing the rural awareness and benefits of radiation processing, ATP holders on separate request can avail consultancy service for irradiation of agro produce once on trial basis for sample quantity without charges.
2. BARC New Seeds :
   For increasing the spread of new varieties developed by BARC, sample seeds shall be made available to ATP holder on separate request as per the suitability in his region.
3. Applications of Isotope Techniques in Hydrological Investigations:
   Over the years nuclear techniques evolved as an indispensable discipline providing powerful tools for water resources management. The climatic and hydrologic diversity in India provides unlimited opportunities for application of isotope techniques; be it in arid Rajasthan, Himalayan mountainous region, coastal Orissa and West Bengal, alluvial deposits in the Ganga plane, urban centres or hard rock of peninsular India. For increasing awareness on use of scientific methods like Isotope Techniques in Hydrological Investigations, preliminary exposure to ATP holder shall be made available on separate request as per suitability in his region.
   

To enable and encourage techno- entrepreneurship in the villages and all those who desire to start activity in villages can avail these technologies at an nominal cost. To kick start the activity, some of the products can be purchased by them either from operational AKRUTIs or from industries as they find suitable and deploy them in the region. Based on the experience gained, they can spread the activities in surrounding areas by deploying them in Rural sector through local techno-preneurship with the technical know-how and training support provided under this programme for deployment.

Under DAE-Societal Initiative, to encourage potential techno-preneurs in Rural sector and to promote large scale deployment of BARC technologies, these technologies are provided for deployment in the rural sector to locals from Rural sector. All the technologies mentioned above are offered under AKRUTI Tech Plus. Applicant is free to choose any one or combination of technologies for deployment in the Rural sector as per need of the region and his financial capacity.

Radiation technology can be effectively used in preserving agriculture produce, improving food safety and enhancing international trade by overcoming trade barriers caused by the presence of quarantine insect pests and microbes in agricultural commodities. Major technological benefits that can be achieved are disinfestations of insect pests, inhibition of sprouting, delay in ripening and destruction of microbes creating food spoilage. This leads to increase of storage life, hygiene and safety. It is desired to increase the awareness of these benefits in urban as well as rural sector.

For increasing the awareness and spread of new crop varieties developed by BARC, sample seeds shall be made available to sow in their region to ATP holder on separate request.

Isotope Techniques are extremely useful in diagnosing water related problems and management of water resources.
Any ATP holder interested for these investigations for societal applications should provide logistics facilities and needed Human Resource (HR) to BARC experts during preliminary exploration, collection of water samples and other field visits. Measurement on these water samples for environmental isotopes and chemical species, with Interpretation of data and results will be carried out at BARC on a preliminary exploration.