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Learn about pineapple marketing in Bihar, especially Kishanganj, including market channels, post-harvest losses, storage, processing, pricing, transportation and export opportunities....

डिजिटल प्रौद्योगिकी: कृषि में गेम चेंजर Digital Agriculture, also known as Smart farming is basically modern farming management system which integrates digital technologies into crop production, field management, livestock and other processes related to farming and digitally collect, store, analyze information. It’s also about how technology integrates and works throughout the supply chain, from seeds or farm animals to the consumer and increase productivity lowering production cost which leads to profitability. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy, contributes 20.2% of total GDP according to 2020-2021 Economic Survey. More than sixty percent of population and two-third of rural population rely upon agriculture as primary occupation although farmer’s are getting low return from their production. In recent years, increasing farmer incomes has been the focus of Indian agriculture. Following the Indian Prime Minister's call to quadruple farmer incomes and the ensuing budget statement, this became official government policy in this manner. To achieve the goal ‘Doubling farmer’s income’ through increasing production efficiency Digitization in the field of agriculture is utmost important. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence-Machine learning, Remote sensing, Internet of Things, Block-chain technology, Hyperspectral imaging with smart phone, Precision farming can be the game changer. Proper adoption and efficient application of digital technology can achieve the objectives of doubling farmer’s income and National...