UPL Ltd., global provider of sustainable agriculture products and solutions, has won two innovation awards - National IP Award-2020 and WIPO IP Enterprises Trophy.

The company has received the prestigious National Intellectual Property Award for the year 2020 in the category “Top Public /Private Limited Company for Patents & Commercialization in India: Manufacturing Sector”.

There were 11 categories of National IP Awards and Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal presented the award at a virtual event.

Additionally, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) along with Intellectual Property Office, India have also conferred the “WIPO IP Enterprises Trophy” to UPL.

Beaming with pride, Rajnikant Shroff, Chairman and Managing Director of UPL India said, “At UPL, we are proud to put farmers’ needs first and create products and services around their requirements. Our relentless focus on innovation has helped us to launch new products every year. UPL holds over 1,400 granted patents and has about 2,900 pending applications for inventions that satisfy farmers’ needs across geographies.”

UPL has upped the ante in India’s agriculture domain by continuously striving to make formulations and processes environmentally friendly, using progressive innovation. Its recently launched NPP (a new global business unit of natural and biologically derived agricultural inputs and technologies) and nurture.farm (a digital platform for farmers for the supply of products, innovation and mechanization) are testaments of our focus on sustainable agriculture.