MeitY and IIT Indore jointly unveil AgriHub: AI-driven Centre of Excellence (CoE)

AgriHub aims to empower farmers, researchers, and businesses, fostering a self-sustaining agritech ecosystem through innovation, startup incubation, and industry partnerships.

The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and IIT Indore have launched AgriHub, an AI-driven Centre of Excellence (CoE), to foster technological innovation, startup incubation, and industry collaboration in agritech.

 This collaborative platform will integrate AI, ML, and DL with agricultural practices to address drought and low productivity challenges. AgriHub aims to empower farmers, researchers, and businesses, fostering a self-sustaining agritech ecosystem through innovation, startup incubation, and industry partnerships. The Madhya Pradesh government, ICAR-IISR Indore, ICAR-CIAE Bhopal, and C-DAC Pune support this landmark initiative.

As a transdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative platform, AgriHub aims to empower farmers, researchers, and breeders with AI-driven agritech solutions. The Center will focus on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) with agricultural practices to address critical challenges such as drought, floods, and low productivity.

AgriHub will streamline research and technology deployment by fostering cross-sectoral collaboration, ensuring that innovations are aligned with the real-world needs of farmers, NGOs, and agribusinesses. Over the next five years, it will establish a self-sustaining agritech ecosystem through job creation, startup incubation, patents, publications, industry partnerships, student mentorship, and entrepreneurship workshops.

AI-Driven Agricultural Growth

At the launch, S. Krishnan, Secretary, MeitY highlighted AI’s transformative potential in agriculture, emphasizing its role in high-performance computing, big data analytics, and precision farming. He underscored the importance of fostering an AI-driven startup culture while advocating for strategic partnerships with established industries to drive innovation and maximize agricultural productivity.

 K.K. Singh, Joint Secretary, Innovation and IPR Division, MeitY acknowledged the operational challenges involved in managing a multi-agency initiative like AgriHub and stressed the need for seamless collaboration between Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs) to achieve the project’s objectives within the stipulated timeline.

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