NABI integrates three disciplines under its roof - agri-technology, food technology and nutrition technology. The BPU is designed to link research and development system with production facility, to serve as an incubator for start-up agri-food companies.

An Agri-food Park would also be set up within the cluster and would be operated on Public Private partnership model. Ministry sources said that this integration of R&D, production and enterprise has been planned for the first time in the country. The cluster has been designed with the help of Canadian experts.

NABI has been designed to be translational in the area of agriculture - new gene discovery, genomics, designer crops; food technology - food processing technologies, bioprocess engineering, food safety and nutrition science and technology - Public health nutrition technologies, functional foods and nutraceuticals, wellness foods.

The cluster will produce not only Ph Ds but also agri-food entrepreneurs and will spawn new industries in the region.