Hyderabad: CII in association with Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) organized an Agri-Digital Connect Workshop with the theme “Empowering Agriculture with Digital Technologies”, ) at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), Rajendranagar here today.
In his key Note address, Dr V Praveen Rao, Vice Chancellor, PJTSAU urged the students to adapt and leverage the new changes and IT technological disruptions that are revolutionizing the agriculture. He also gave some examples of latest technologies such as Mini Robotics clearing the clogged pipes, Weather Radars providing the information of weather changes.
Earlier in his welcome address, Sanjay Singh, Chairman, CII Telangana and Divisional Chief Executive, ITC Ltd.-PSPD, said that improving the productivity using the technology is the key for sustainable agriculture and improving famers’ income. He also gave an example of the usage of technology in improving the productivity of trees for wood used for the production paper at ITC in Bhadrachalam. Anil Kumar V Epur, Past Chairman, CII Southern Region, said the current and upcoming technologies like IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Drones and Block-chain hold the potential of catalyzing innovations in organization that leads to improvement of agricultural models.
G V Subba Reddy, Convenor CII Telangana, Agri Panel & Senior Vice President, Coromandel International Ltd, said that technology can be put to use for faster, cheaper, better products and services in agriculture also. CVD Ramprasad, Director, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), said that there are lot of opportunities with digital revolution and the same can be used for the betterment of Agriculture & allied industries. Some of the gaps present in the agriculture ecosystems can be bridged by IT technologies.
Raghu H, Consulting Partner – Life Sciences Advisory Services, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) delivered the closing remarks and said that in coming few years, there will be 75 million agriculture devices connected with each other and communicates with each other with very less human interference.
The workshop was well attended by over 300 participants who are students of the university as well as universities across south India.(NSS)
