ASSAM

DR. UDDHAB KUMAR BHARALI

Innovator/ Scientist/ Senior Technologist in the field of Agriculture
Founder, U K B Agrotech

Dr. Uddhab Kumar Bharali is an innovator, scientist and a senior technologist in the field of Agriculture.
Dr. Bharali decided to devote his lifetime in exploring new areas of employment by introducing new
innovations.
To address this, he founded U K B Agrotech, an R & D centre in North Lakhimpur, Assam which
specializes in customized machine design and research for better agricultural production. U K B Agrotech
is the only one in the organised sector which has focus on machine innovation.
Though UK B Agrotech R&D center is in Lakhimpur, which is a zero industry district, they have been
receiving assignments from all around the globe.
UKB Agrotech has been:

Satisfying customers with expected innovations, service delivery and final performing machines
Developing new technology which is cost effective and operation friendly.
Delivering expected innovations within a specific deadline of three months (max)
Investing earnings through R & D and Sales in building new innovations

Dr. Bharali is a mind boggling Rural Innovator and Inventor from Assam who has devoted his life in
helping people with appropriate technology.
As an innovator and inventor, he has found over 107 Innovations which has helped to generate new
areas of employment.
Some important innovation and association
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Major innovations
Pomegranate de-seeder
(a) Lap cutting machine for ERI

Funding Agencies
TePP DSIR/DST, Govt of India
RuTAG IIT Guwahati

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(b) Cocoon opener

(c) Areca nut Bisector
Passion fruit gel extractor
Cone shape Agarbatti maker
Safed musli peeler
Mosquito repellant making
machine(herbal
Manual Bamboo splitting machine
for ETHIOPIA
Cassava peeling machine for
SOUTH AFRICA
Garlic peeling machine
Areca Nut peeling machine
Trench digger machine
High productive MUGA reeling
machine
Root slicing machine
Sugarcane chips maker
Improvised Muga-reeling machine
Decortications machine for Ramie
Couna Dehydration plant
Dry areca nut De-husking plant
Pomegranate De seeder
Areca nut Bisector
Remie decortications Machine
Detention chair for mentally
challenged person
Mini tea plant
Feeding machine for person
without hand
Coconut leaf stick extraction
machine.

IFAD
Gujarat Agarbatti association.
Maharashtra Musli grower association.
SHG Kerela
NIF - India & INBAR
NIF - India
NIF - India
NIF - India
Cable laying forum, Assam
CMTRI, Govt. of India
Ashram Biotech Pvt.Ltd. West Bengal
Tintech plant,Rajkot, Gujarat
CMTRI, Govt of India
CRIJEF, ICAR, Govt of India
IIE, India
Indonesia, Andaman
Big Bazar Group, NIF - India
Indonesia
CRIJEF - ICAR

TRA /Tea Board, Govt of India

Ms. Juli Boruah
ASTEC, Assam

ation is going to bring a revolution by solving the problem of small tea growers around the country. Not
only that, he also believes that the Feeding Machine is going to bring relief to people without a hand
which would be more than 2 lakh people around the world.

Dr. Bharali is getting assignments from all over the world to solve and innovate different and
appropriate technologies, for which he has set up a machine design and research center.

He holds various other posts also:

DirectorInnovation at Dibrugarh University
Visiting Director at Tezpur University

Visiting Professor at NIT

Doctor of science ---Assam Agriculture university
Guest faculty at various Technology awareness event.

Awards:
Shristi Samman Master Innovator Award 2007 by NIF India
Presidents National Grassroots Innovation Award - 2009
Prayukty - Ratna Sanman &title by Axom Sahitya Sabha - 2010
Meritorious Invention Award from NRDC - 2011
Certificate of Merit---NRDCGovt of India
Shilpa Ratna title by Govt of Assam - 2012.
Winner of engineering design contest organized by NASA Tech Briefs Media called Create the
Future Design Contest in 2012.His Benchtop Pomegranate De-seeder won in the top ten most
popular invention Award in that contest
Edition Award and title By Asom Jatio Vidyalaya - 2013
Barpeta Award by AASU Barpeta - 2013
Qualifier at the World Tech Award for invention of Mini Tea plant - 2012
Winner of NASA tech brief Create the Future Design contest for invention of the Detention
Chair for mentally challenged Person -- 2013
Chief Minister Best Awardee - 2013
Rashtriya Ekta Samman - 2013

Affiliations/Present activities:
Manufacturer/Designer of customized machines in his enterprise, U K B AGROTECH, the only
centre in the country for machine design & research.
Guest speaker in Indian institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Guwahati.
Technical consultant with IIT Guwahati's RuTAG (Rural Technology Action Group).
Technology Developer CRIJEF - Indian Council Agricultural Research
Member, Scientific Advisory committee of Tea Research Association (TRA), Govt of India.
Technology developer of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, MSME, Govt of India.
Innovator for National Innovation Foundation, Indian
TED international Speaker
UX International Speaker
Adjunct Professor, DUIET, DU
Associated Developer TRA, India
Project Mentor for Engineering Student.
Associate Developer TRA, India
Principal Investigator - Mini micro tea plant research.- Tea Board/TRA
Member Engineering & Manufacturing committee,TRA
Member of Scientific advisory committee TRA
Discovery Channel, 13 did a documentary on Dr. Bharalis LIFE AND INNOVATION.
Write up in MIT journal, BBC World, Chicago Tribune and on all National print media
Drama broadcasted on his life by PRASHARVARTI.

Social responsibilities
Training 50 youth from rural areas technically and providing free lodging, food and Rs. 2000 as
allowance for three months
Providing free food and clothes to the elderly or to beggars in his home town. Provides a weekly
allowance of Rs. 200 to three elderly people on a regular basis
Providing free food and ration to 7 helpless families throughout the year among which are
visually impaired people, bright students from poor families etc.
Provides frequent medical assistance to people in need and without any financial support
Made it compulsory to arrange monetary assistance for the needy Students
Providing for the Funeral ceremony of poor and helpless people
Plans to set up an old age home and an orphanage for which he has purchased a small plot of
land. The Orphans would be trained to be technical experts.
Some of his ongoing medical assistance
Ms. Sonali Das - Brain Cancer Sibsagar Student
Master Debasish Bora - Severe traumatism - Teok. Jorhat Student
Ms. Purnima Dutta - Acute body pain - Ward no 11 NL town
Mr. Paresh Dey - Severe Rheumatism - Ward no. 11. NL town.
Subhash Dhar - Acute blindness - Ward no. 11.NL town.
Barnali Baisya - Breast Cancer - Azara
Expenditure for the above activities has been managed with whatever fees he receives from the R&D
works and as a resource person.