Agricultural transformation through Information and Technology

PUNE: NPNEWS24 ONLINE-There is needs of reaching new technology to farmers for creating better opportunities in the agriculture sector. As the farmers are the ones, who take the country forward. The Union Government also made a commitment to double the income of farmers by 2022. Government and other private companies should take efforts to reduce input costs and raise profits by delivering the benefits of science and technology to agriculture.

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A Pune based ‘iCognitive Global’ is working to make transformation the agricultural sector. It has developed the project of three broad modules: A decentralized marketplace connected top buyers across the world, with its quality chain departments to ensure the best crop quality and the highest margin for the farm who will bring their produce onto the platform. Trades on the marketplace are settled by auctions to prevent human intervention and pegged at MSP as the minimum going rate. It is also supporting to digitizing India’s agrarian mandis. By allowing farmers to access a global market so that they can define the rules for their produce.

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It will also help farmers to repay their debts, as the ‘farmers suicide’ is become most critical issue in Maharashtra. The growth of rural economy happens only when its framers prosper, and this growth should be sustainable over time.

“Leveraging Blockchain and emerging technology to enhance the rural economy of the nation,” by one of its cofounder Abhijith Naraparaju while talking with NP News24. He further said that “We envision iCognitive Global as a long-term investment for India and the globe in bringing greater digitization, facilities, and services to World’s large farmer base. It will foster greater employment and facilitate the development of new skillsets for the burgeoning the youth by allowing them to be a part of social impact project that can work away some of the problems faced by farmers by making them more self-sufficient and independent.

The farmers should get the latest technologies to reap the better harvest and protect themselves from the risks of adverse climatic conditions, reduced yields, and other environmental factors that adversely affect crop growth. iCognitive Global is proposed to do this through a combination of satellites, aerial drones to image the land and gauge weather and climatic patterns, and subterranean drones to sample soil quality and groundwater conditions for a piece of land.

Generally, our farmers’ things that education is not that much of necessary for doing farming, Neither they take any kind of guidelines and just continued their traditional way of farming like the repetition of cropping on the same land again and again which reduces the efficiency of the production. Farmers didn’t do the soil testing for knowing the which kind of soil suitable for which crops. So, icognitive is going to give the information to give personalized information to each farmer about details of what to grow, when to sow and harvest, as well as dedicated measures to ensure crop quality and survival to mitigate the risk of crop failure even in harvest condition. They are also going to help the framers for getting the loans.

The research and innovation in the field of agriculture must reach farmers. The scientists and researchers should collaborate with farmers to make agriculture more affordable and viable. Empowering farmer and strengthening agriculture will surely help in developing rural India.