Telangana to call for Expression for Interest for Better Farming project

The Telangana authorities will soon phone for Expression for Curiosity (EoIs) in the upcoming just one-two months for the implementation of a five-calendar year Saagu Baagu (Superior Farming) project by deploying technology alternatives.

The authorities is looking for associates to establish and establish transformation potential of revolutionary technological alternatives alongside the benefit chain in the key sector.

The Saagu Baagu Venture is staying led by the Agriculture Section in association with Professor Jayashankar of Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) IT Section and the Earth Financial Discussion board.

Crops included

The project will deal with crops this kind of as cotton, chilli and turmeric for the kharif season and groundnut, bengal gram, and paddy for the rabi season.

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“The project shall be carried out on the principle – ‘Think Massive, Start Small, Scale Fast’,” a senior authorities official reported.

This is an outcome of the AI4AI (AI for Agriculture Innovation) initiative introduced by the authorities a calendar year ago. The initiative resulted in the identification of 9 frameworks and thirty use instances alongside four locations of the agriculture benefit chain – Crop Preparing, Good Farming, Farmgate-to-Fork and Info-pushed Agriculture.

The State authorities tied up with CSIR India, Earth Financial Discussion board and a couple of ecosystem gamers, like get started-ups to tap rising systems for earning a variance to the agriculture sector.

The project is aimed at covering just one lakh farmers around four crop cycles and make a scalable model.