03 May Harnessing artificial intelligence in Agriculture to Empower Small Farmers
छोटे किसानों को सशक्त बनाने के लिए कृषि में आर्टिफ़िशियल इंटेलिजेंस का उपयोग India’s agricultural sector, which employs nearly 50% of the nation’s workforce and contributes around 17-18% to its GDP, faces daunting challenges. Smallholder farmers, who constitute about 85% of the farming population, are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and economic instability. Erratic weather patterns, declining productivity, rising input costs, and limited access to resources have created a precarious situation for millions of farming households. An estimated 500 million smallholder farms in the developing world support almost 2 billion people and produce about 80% of the food consumed in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. According to the Economic...