NITI Aayog charts 2047 roadmap to expand India's Bioeconomy to $2.6T

India can scale its bioeconomy to $691 billion by 2035 and $2.6 trillion by 2047 with decisive, mission-mode execution, according to a report by the NITI Aayog.

Bioeconomy is an economic model that uses renewable biological materials to produce food, energy, and industrial goods.

In a bid to realise India's $2.6 trillion BioEconomy vision by 2047, the country must move from fragmented initiatives to a coordinated national execution architecture, the Aayog in a report titled 'Roadmap for Building India as a Leading BioEconomy Powerhouse by 2035' said.

"With decisive, mission-mode execution, India can scale its BioEconomy to $691 billion by 2035 and $2.6 trillion by 2047, creating over 30 million high-value jobs and positioning the country among the world's top three biotechnology powers," it said.

The Aayog stressed that mission-mode national BioMissions to scale priority sectors will be necessary to realise India's $2.6 trillion BioEconomy vision by 2047.

Moreover, empowered committees to drive cross-ministerial coordination; regulatory reforms to accelerate approvals while ensuring safety and trust; and a strengthened bioscience leadership and talent pipeline; and a Rs 50,000 crore BioEconomy Growth Fund to support innovation, scale-up, infrastructure and biomanufacturing are also needed to scale the country's bioeconomy to $691 billion, the Aayog added.

The report also set out a strategic proposition for India to transition from traditional biological R&D to AI-enabled biotechnology and next-generation biomanufacturing, driven by deeper collaboration across ministries, departments, academia, industry and startups.

"Early action would allow India not merely to participate in this transformation, but to shape the global rules, markets and platforms of the biological age-an upheaval likely to rival, and perhaps surpass, the disruption unleashed by artificial intelligence," it noted.

The report noted that, globally, major powers are already moving at speed.

"The United States has adopted a whole-of-government approach to biomanufacturing; the European Union is tying biotechnology to climate and industrial competitiveness; China is deploying five-year plans to industrialise at scale," it said.

According to the report, the next frontier of biotechnology will be defined by deep convergence with AI, robotics, computational biology and biosensor networks.

Speaking at the event, NITI Aayog member Gobardhan Das said India's bioeconomy has entered a phase of rapid and substantive progress. One that many observers are calling a golden age of biology, comparable to the computing revolution of the 1970s.

India stands at a pivotal moment in the global biological century. In just a decade, the country's BioEconomy has expanded sixteen-fold from $10 billion in 2014 to $195.3 billion in 2025, now contributing 4.8% to national GDP.