Chandigarh- In a bid to spice up agricultural productiveness and sustainability utilizing cutting-edge applied sciences, Punjab Authorities is gearing as much as undertake Synthetic Intelligence (AI) in agriculture with the assistance of Centre of Excellence (CoE) established at IIT Ropar.
Punjab Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian chaired a high-level evaluation assembly right here at Punjab Bhawan, to evaluate progress and description a roadmap for efficient field-level deployment of AI-driven options to enhance farm productiveness, sustainability and increase the state farmers’ earnings.
Khudian emphasised that superior applied sciences should translate into tangible and measurable advantages for farmers on the bottom. He assured full assist from the Authorities of Punjab for implementation of pilot challenge and scaling up of profitable AI interventions throughout districts. He additionally directed officers involved to facilitate set up of Automated Climate Stations, farmer engagement for subject information assortment, assist to horticulture clusters and growth of AI-based livestock productiveness options.
The Agriculture Minister additionally welcomed IIT Ropar’s initiative to launch national-level programs on Precision Agriculture and AI in Agriculture, geared toward talent growth of youth and capability constructing of presidency officers. Particular reservation of seats for college students and officers from Punjab will additional strengthen the State’s human useful resource base in agri-technology.
The collaboration would positionPunjab as a front-runner and a mannequin State for AI-driven agricultural transformation. The concerted efforts of the Authorities of Punjab are anticipated to considerably improve useful resource effectivity, local weather resilience and sustainable development within the agriculture and allied sectors.
Throughout the assembly, Dr. Pushpendra P Singh, Affiliate Professor of IIT, Ropar apprised about the important thing initiatives below the CoE (with a monetary outlay of round Rs310 crore supported by GoI), together with AI-based crop advisory programs, multilingual farmer chatbots, digital twins of crops, yield estimation fashions, soil well being analytics, climate intelligence instruments and good livestock administration purposes.
