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Kavitha: CM’s national platform is to evolutionise agricultureedit
The Hindu – Online
‘Farmers’ associations and intelligentsia are rooting for KCR’Influential farmers’ organisations in the country and the intelligentsia working for farmers’ welfare are looking at Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao realising noone understands farmers and agriculture better than him. MLC and KCRs daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha argued.
Development, Deployment Of Technology Needed To Transform Agriculture Sectoredit
Times Now News – Online
Digital innovation can transform Indian agriculture and the focus should be on spreading awareness about the potential of such technologies in the agriculture sector, Anna Roy, Senior Adviser (DM&A, Industry) NITI Aayog said. She was speaking at a webinar organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Addressing the webinar on ‘Deep Tech for Smart Agriculture in India’, Roy said, “The real challenge for us is not the development of technology, but instead the deployment of technology, and we as a nation have to come together for the development and deployment of such deep-techs for the
Important Agricultural Developments by former PM Indira Gandhi that Strengthened Indian Agricultureedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
India’s self-sufficiency in food and different sectors of agriculture owes to the Green Revolution that our late Prime Minister had mentored. Indira Gandhi encouraged Indian scientists to collaborate with their international counterparts; her policies resulted in Indian farmers adopting new varieties with great enthusiasm.
After the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri who encouraged India to start farming practices by the slogan of Jai Kisan-Jai Jawan. She didn’t give up to but continued Shastri legacy and for this, it required bold political leadership and far-sightedness, which she provided from the very start of her first term as Prime Minister in 1966. As a result of her programmes, over the years India converted a less dependency on imported ...
Technology in Agriculture
Call for Code Names India-based AI Farm as the Asia Pacific Regional Winneredit
Express computer – Online
Where most people see challenges, developers see possibilities. That’s certainly been the case in 2020. Call for Code founding partner IBM and its creator, David Clark Cause, announced the Asia Pacific Regional Winner. AI Farm – an Indian entry – was named the Asia Pacific Regional Winner for an intelligent system that evaluates climate and soil conditions to provide farmers with information to adapt their crop strategies.
AI Farm will receive an award of $5,000 USD. The application is an intelligent system that aims to provide farmers with the information they need to adapt their crop strategies to optimize water usage and control disease. The solution is a low-cost system that uses sensors to monitor ground ...
Stubble Burning
Bio decomposer to fight stubble burning | Ground reportedit
India Today. – Online
Scientist at the Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Pusa have come up with the ‘decomposer capsules.’ These capsules, called Pusa decomposer, a composition of eight microbes, will help ready the land for the sowing of the next crop without the farmers burning the crop residue.
Where most people see challenges, developers see possibilities. That’s certainly been the case in 2020.edit
Timesnownews – Online
Agriculture scientists in Delhi’s Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) have developed a low-cost, effective technology to deal with crop stubble burning, which when deployed, will help tackle a major source of winter pollution in the national capital.
According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), a government-run monitoring agency, stubble burning from the farms in Punjab and Haryana worsened the air pollution problem that Delhi faces. The stubble-burning by farmers from these two neighbouring states shares 42 per cent of total causes of the air pollution affecting Delhi on certain early winter days.