The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on Tuesday signed 5 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for pilot tasks with 5 personal firms – Cisco, Ninjakart, Jio Platforms Limited, ITC Limited and NCDEX E-Markets Limited (NEML).
According to the Agriculture Ministry, Jio Platforms Limited will conduct its pilot challenge to mentor farmers in two districts of Maharashtra- Jalna and Nashik. ITC Limited has signed a MoU to create a “customized ‘Site Specific Crop Advisory’ service.”
Sharing particulars concerning the MoU signed with ITC Ltd, the ministry stated, “The proposal will be implemented in identified villages of Sehore and Vidisha districts of Madhya Pradesh and will support wheat crop operations.”
According to the ministry, Cisco will “envision proof of concept in effective knowledge sharing among farmers, administration, academia and industry” in two districts- Kaithal (Haryana) and Morena (Madhya Pradesh).
Under its MoU with the ministry, NCDEX e Markets Limited (NEML) is engaged on 4 services- market linkage, aggregation of demand, monetary linkage and knowledge sanitization- in three districts-Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Devanagare (Karnataka) and Nashik. Will do (Maharashtra).
Ninjakart will develop and host the Agri Marketplace Platform (AMP), which is able to be capable of convey collectively all contributors in post-harvest market linkages, the assertion stated.
Sharing the small print of the MoU with Ninjakart, the ministry stated, “The places where the Proof of Concept (PoC) will be conducted are Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh), Anand (Gujarat) and Indore (Madhya Pradesh).”
The ministry stated, “Based on these pilot tasks, farmers will be capable of make knowledgeable choices about which crop to develop, what kind of seed to make use of, and what greatest practices to undertake to maximise yield. Is.”
The newest spherical of MoUs is a part of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Digital Agriculture Mission, for a interval of 5 years (2021 -2025) by the federal government for “projects based on new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, remote sensing and GIS technology”. , use of drones and robots and so on.” Earlier, the ministry has signed MoUs with Microsoft, Star AgriBazaar, Esri India Technologies Pvt Ltd, Patanjali and Amazon.
“Acknowledging the importance of digitization in agriculture, the department is creating a federated farmer database and building various services around this database to create a digital ecosystem of agriculture.”
“The federal farmers database will be linked to the land records of farmers across the country and unique farmer IDs will be generated. Under this unified database for all farmers, all the benefits and supports of various schemes of Central and State Government can be kept and it can be the source of information to provide benefits to the farmers in future. As of now, the database is ready with the details of around 5.5 crore farmers,” it added.
The MoUs had been signed within the presence of Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary; Ms. Shobha Karandlaje, Union Minister of State for Agriculture; Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal Secretary; Vivek Agarwal, Additional Secretary (Digital Agriculture); Harish Krishnan (Managing Director, Public Affairs and Strategic Affairs) Cisco; Thirukumaran Nagarajan (Co-Founder and CEO Ninjakart); Shankar Adaval (Chairman and Head of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, JIO) Jio Platforms Limited; Rajinikanth Rai, (Divisional Chief Executive, ITC) ITC Ltd.; and Mrigank Paranjpe, (Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer) NCDEX E-Markets Limited (NEML) had been additionally current.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
