The promoters of Sri Sai Agri Bio Labs have an ideal blend of learning backgrounds, exposure and expertise to successfully steer their venture towards its goal. They have strong commitment and concern for rural development, ecological and environmental issues and believe that agro-economical self-sufficiency can and will happen in India. Organic farming is an excellent instrument which not only protects and conserves the eco-system, but also has vast potential for high margin profits. In developing countries like India, it can do wonders to the rural agriculture based economy. All products and services of Sai Agri Bio Labs endeavor to translate this belief into reality.

Our plant tissue culture laboratory is being stabilized to produce and market tissue cultured plants that are in demand in the market.

Our own Research and Development Unit at the Sri Sai Agri Bio Labs is involved in several projects sponsored by DBT and DST, New Delhi, Gov. of INDIA.

Ongoing Projects:
1. Agrobacterium induced hairy root culture in selected medicinal plants
2. β-carotene synthesis from trispora Fungus

Future Projects:
1. Utilization of Cashew apple for Ethanol production
2. Bio-diesel from Algae

Set-up of 30kl/day Biodiesel Refinery

Bio-fuels are all set to play a critical role in meeting India's future energy needs. India is one of the largest petroleum consuming and importing countries in the world. Most of the present energy demands are met by fossil fuels – coal, petroleum based products and natural gas. India stands to benefit enormously from alternative local sources of energy. Growing the oil locally is one important way of addressing this problem. Developing bio-diesel industry as a multi product bio-refinery (bio-nutrients from de-oiled cake; bio-pesticides from bio-active molecules separated prior to oil extraction for trans-esterification and alkyd resins & polyethylene glycol from glycerine) would enable us to meet the requirements of alternative fuel for transportation and power generation. In addition, the byproducts of the industry would give an impetus to the expansion of organic cultivation and restoration of soil health, thereby enhancing fertility and yields and improving rural livelihoods.
Our approach to Bio-fuels industry yields the following benefits:

		Making clean bio-fuel for transport and energy sectors.
		Reducing carbon emissions and promoting safer and healthy environment.
		Promoting organic farming and reducing use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
		Improving food quality and protecting soil fertility.
		Generating sustainable livelihood options and tremendous growth impulses in rural areas.

The transformative potential of bio-technology for non-urban Bharat is perhaps far greater than that of Information Technology for urban India.

Municipal Waste Management

Across our country, many communities, businesses, and individuals have found creative ways to reduce and better manage Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) - more commonly known as trash or garbage - through a coordinated mix of practices that includes source reduction, recycling (including composting), and disposal. The most environmentally sound management of MSW is achieved when these approaches are implemented according to EPA's preferred order: source reduction first, recycling and composting second, and disposal in landfills or waste combustors last.

Our proposal for 100MT/day solid waste treatment is a part of evolving and perfecting a model, at once replicable & scalable to convert the Municipal Solid Waste to better so that the problem of waste disposal could be curbed and we leave a healthy environment for our future generations instead of a polluted and sickening environment. This would also decrease the huge investments needed to deal the waste problem.

R&D Projects

DBT approved on-going project:

1. Beta-carotene production in Blakeslea trispora and up-scaling the downstream process.

Carotenoids are desirable commercial products used as additives and colorants in the food industry. Traditionally, carotenoids were obtained by extraction from plants or by direct chemical synthesis. Due to the increasing importance of β-carotene, biotechnological methods of production have been sought, with the green alga Dunaliella salina and the fungus Blakeslea trispora the microorganisms of choice for industrial production of this molecule (Marz, The Global market for Carotenoids). The culture of the two sexual forms of this species in a specific ratio was found to bring a remarkable increase in mycelial carotenoid content. The special condition required for cultures in liquid media with mixed sexual forms of B. triospora was investigated at Suryaanjaneya industries, Garividi.

Projects for DBT approval

1. Production of secondary metabolites from Catharanthus roseus and Rauwolfia serpentina through Biotechnological approaches – Hairy root culture and Elicitation of product accumulation.

Abstract: The recent advances in biotechnology have made the production of secondary metabolites not only controllable but there has been the possibility for further enrichment of compounds using hairy root culture and elicitation. Transformed root cultures have proved amenable to growth and secondary metabolite production in fermentors is essential, if commercialization of any process is to be considered. Different reactor configurations have been used to culture hairy roots and scale up the production process.

2. Optimization, Standardization and Manufacture of Bioethanol from Cashew apple based on Bioconversion process.

The North coastal region of Andhra Pradesh is rich in Cashew Plantations. A profitable margin is acquired by the cashew nuts from this belt. The cashew apple is discarded in large numbers. We propose to use this fruit for the production of Bio-ethanol. This can be made commercially viable by increasing the yield of bioethanol. The constraint of maintaining a viable organism will be overcome by using only enzymes involved in the ethanol production pathway. This organism free approach to ethanol production has main advantage of process flexibility.
The principal fuel used as a petrol substitute for road transport vehicles is bioethanol. Bioethanol is mainly produced by sugar fermentation process. Different sources are available for the production of ethanol like Sugarcane, corn and from domestic wastes. In the present bioethanol production, locally available agrowaste, cashew apple will be used as raw material. The main constraint involved in the large scale production of bioethanol is maintenance of microorganisms at higher concentrations. This limitation can be overcome using only enzymes involved in the ethanol production pathway instead of whole cells. This organism free approach has greater process flexibility than the usual process of ethanol production