(MENAFN- KNN India) ICAR organizes session on 'Precision Agriculture'
New Delhi, Oct 7 (KNN) Aiming to discuss recent advances in the field agriculture, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute has organized a session on 'Sensors and Sensing for Precision Agriculture under 'Precision Agriculture by with total participation of 1019 including 38 panelists. It was a part of the Vaishwik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit 2020.
This is a Government of India initiative to bring together the thought process, practices, R & D culture of Overseas and Indian scientists/academicians through a series of structured deliberations and constructive dialogue, and develop a road map for translational research/academic culture for tangible output and strengthening the S & T base for providing the impetus to endeavour of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.
A total of 18 verticals have been identified for deliberation of which 'Agro-economy and Food Security deals directly with agriculture with several horizontals.
The horizontal on 'Precision Agriculture aims at discussing recent advances in the field on sensors, remote sensing, deep learning, artificial intelligence and IoT for monitoring and quantification of soil, plant and environment to enhance farm productivity with increased input use efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Rabi N. Sahoo, ICAR-IARI was Session Coordinator. M. Udayakumar, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru and Alol Sikka, India Water Management Institute, New Delhi were chairs for different themes and Anil Rai, ADG ICT, ICAR was the co-chair of the session.
Viswanathan, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India and NRI speaker Sindhuja Sankaran, Washington State University, USA made presentations on the Indian and US scenario on high throughput sensor-based plant phenotyping for development of resource efficient, climate smart and high yielding cultivars, which is fundamental for smart agriculture.
Uday B Desai, IIT Hyderabad and Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, USA deliberated on wireless sensor network and IoT technologies and potential use in precision agriculture.
Each presentation was followed by panel discussion with eminent panelists and research gaps. Keeping in view these gaps, a specific objective driven collaboration will be proposed with the universities of USA, namely Washington State University, University of California, Perdue University, University of Colorado, USA for further excelling in education and research and capacity building.
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