Agriculture Technology: Indian farms are becoming hi-tech

When rabi or winter crop ripens in Haryana, drones will circle them as part of a series of simultaneous experiments in three other states like Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

From traditional handholding measures, such as subsidies, farmers are now using the Internet, a vast rural mobile phone subscriber base and space-telecom technologies.The drones scans two selected districts in each of these four states. They will carry out special imaging with the help of one among a constellation of homegrown satellites. Then this images will be transmitted back to scientists at the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre in the Capital’s Pusa campus.

The country’s growing cell phone subscriber base is proving to be handy to tell farmers what to grow or actions to take in case of pest attacks in real time. The government has enrolled 89.3 million farm families for its mobile farm advisories.

Kisan is a new high-tech programme launched on a pilot basis to help farmers. NADAMS is one of the critical project which provides real-time information on drought and its severity level, developed by the National Remote Sensing Centre.

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