Experts: ‘AI Must Invade Agriculture to Help India Prosper’
With India facing the prospect of feeding 1.6 billion people by 2050, experts have said that the country must turn to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to weed out inefficiencies in national agriculture, writes Akhil Kadidal at Deccan Herald.
Speaking at the 107th Indian Science Congress at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bengaluru on Saturday, the experts said that the massive responsibility of the government to provide for its citizens requires a fundamental shift in how the government and society view agriculture.
“In India, 50% of land is cultivated. As much as 45% of all adults directly work in agriculture, but the average monthly income of farmers is less than $100 (about Rs 7,100). The contribution of agriculture to the national $3 trillion economy is less than $100 (about Rs 7,100). The contribution of agriculture to the national $3 trillion economy is less than 20%. This has to change,” said Professor Heggere Ranganath, a Karnataka native, now on the faculty of the University of Alabama.
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