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What is Hybrid Agricultural Intelligence?

Moravec’s paradox illustrates how AI excels at complex tasks but struggles with simple, interactive ones. This opens the door for combining human intelligence with AI, especially in agriculture....

December 5, 2024

Ashraya: New Farmer Service Centres Launched in Kerala

The Agriculture Department has introduced ‘Ashraya’ farmer service centres, which aim to provide digital services to farmers across the Kerala. They are an extension of the recently launched...

December 3, 2024

Mission Arun Himveer

The government of Arunachal Pradesh has launched ‘Mission Arun Himveer’, which aims to improve market access for agricultural and horticultural products. It was announced in Itanagar with the...

December 2, 2024

India’s Oilseed Production and GMO Adoption

The Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) advocates for genetically modified (GMO) crops to boost oilseed production. President Sanjeev Asthana brought into light the potential increase in production...

November 23, 2024

9th Session of Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar recently inaugurated the 9th Session of Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food...

September 19, 2022

NABARD Farmer Distress Index

With the marginal and small farmers of the country getting a raw deal regarding the waivers of farm loans, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)...

April 30, 2022

Robo Plant: Technology to interact with plants

The scientists from Singapore have developed a technology to interact with plants. The technology has been named as “Robo Plant”. About the Robo Plant Technology The technology helps...

April 8, 2021

Rs 90000 Cr Sanctioned under Kisan Credit Card Scheme to the Farmers

As per the information provided by the Finance Minister, banks have sanctioned total amount of Rs 89810 Cr to about 11 million Kisan Credit Cardholders to help the...

July 27, 2020

What is KisanRath?

KisanRath is a mobile app developed by the National Informatics Centre to help farmers and traders in the primary and secondary transportation of their agriculture and horticulture produce...

June 4, 2020

Kisan Sabha Application developed by CSIR launched

On May 1, 2020, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI) launched Kisan Sabha Application. The application was launched to connect farmers to freight...

May 2, 2020

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