Partner to make agri tech accessible for farmers through vernacular sessions
The 28th edition of the series of agricultural presentations was recently held. The series of agricultural presentations by technology developers across the Indian research Institutes and their incubated start-ups have helped showcase around 150 agricultural technologies across different themes, farm management, post-harvest management, allied agriculture, etc. These have been garnered under the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA), Government of India. The presentations are made primarily for the demand members (Industry and Incubators) to evaluate the technologies and to stitch the supply side and demand side of agriculture through technology.
Speaking at the 28th edition, Dr AK Singh, Deputy Director-General, (Agricultural Extension) ICAR, pointed out that KisanMitr is helping to develop technology solutions for the problems faced by the farmers. He congratulated the Office of PSA, ICST, NSRCEL for facilitating the process of making technology and innovations that are developed in research laboratories across the country reach farmers across the country. Applauding the organisation of vernacular sessions of these webinars, he also hoped that the upcoming webinars will bring together more farmers to talk about their problems, and what technology solutions they need.
He opined, “One farmer will help train many more farmers. So, if we train one with technology, they will help transfer knowledge too.”
Dr Singh called out to the KVKs to be flag bearers and help reach these solutions to reach the farmer by organising a viewing session in KVK offices for farmers for demonstration of technologies. 75e KVKs have, till now, partnered for this outreach.
Among the voluntary organisations that are facilitating the vernacular language sessions for farmers are VIT School of Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning, VAIAL (Tamil), and Grameena Incubation Center (Telugu). The teams are in talks with others for sessions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Rajasthani. The upcoming sessions in Tamil and Telugu are planned to be held on July 10 and 17 respectively. Coming months, the plan is to telecast these sessions in other regional languages as more KVK partners join the initiative.
