Telangana to call for Expression for Interest for Better Farming project
The Telangana authorities will soon simply call for Expression for Fascination (EoIs) in the next one particular-two months for the implementation of a 5-12 months Saagu Baagu (Superior Farming) undertaking by deploying technological know-how methods.
The authorities is seeking for associates to confirm and build transformation prospective of revolutionary technological methods together the value chain in the most important sector.
The Saagu Baagu Job is staying led by the Agriculture Office in affiliation with Professor Jayashankar of Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) IT Office and the Earth Financial Discussion board.
Crops lined
The undertaking will include crops this kind of as cotton, chilli and turmeric for the kharif time and groundnut, bengal gram, and paddy for the rabi time.
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“The undertaking shall be executed on the theory – ‘Think Significant, Start out Compact, Scale Fast’,” a senior authorities formal claimed.
This is an consequence of the AI4AI (AI for Agriculture Innovation) initiative launched by the authorities a 12 months in the past. The initiative resulted in the identification of nine frameworks and 30 use conditions together 4 parts of the agriculture value chain – Crop Planning, Intelligent Farming, Farmgate-to-Fork and Details-driven Agriculture.
The State authorities tied up with CSIR India, Earth Financial Discussion board and a couple of ecosystem gamers, which includes commence-ups to faucet rising technologies for producing a difference to the agriculture sector.
The undertaking is aimed at covering one particular lakh farmers around 4 crop cycles and establish a scalable product.
