Kritagya Hackathon by National Agricultural Higher Education Project of ICAR By CIOReviewIndia Team

Kritagya Hackathon by National Agricultural Higher Education Project of ICAR

CIOReviewIndia Team | Thursday, 24 September 2020, 04:48 IST

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KRITAGYAFor promoting potential technology solutions to enhance farm mechanization emphasizing women-friendly equipment, a hackathon – ‘KRITAGYA’ is planned by the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) under the National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP). The applications from students, faculties, and innovators/entrepreneurs from any university/technical institution of India will be accepted and they will be allowed to participate in the event group wise.

Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, Director General, ICAR, said, “In one group maximum 4 participants can compete, with not more than one faculty and / or more than one innovator or entrepreneur. Participating students can collaborate with local start-ups, students from technology institutes, and can win Rs. 5 lakhs, Rs 3 lakhs, and Rs. 1 lakh as first, second and third prize. The registration for the event started on 15th September 2020.”

He added, “The development and promotion of women-friendly tools through innovative technology solutions and right collaborations with stakeholders would play an important role in enhancing the farm productivity and profitability, which has also been emphasized by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on several occasions. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has also stressed upon the need of enhancing the innovation in farm mechanization in several meetings and provided the overall guidance in organizing this event.”

Dr. R. C. Agrawal, Deputy Director-General, ICAR, and National Director, NAHEP, said, “This event will give an opportunity to the students, faculties, entrepreneurs, innovators and other stakeholders to showcase their innovative approaches and technology solutions to promote farm mechanization in India. The initiative undertaken by NAHEP along with the Agricultural Engineering Division of ICAR will also help in enhancing the learning capabilities, innovations, and disruptive solutions, employability, and entrepreneurial drive in the Farm Mechanization sector. Besides, the event will also help in taking forward the vision of high-quality higher education with equity and inclusion as envisaged in NEP-2020.”

Dr. R. C. Agrawal further added, “In view of increasing women participation in the field operations mainly due to migration of men for better prospects in non-farm opportunities, the ICAR has felt it necessary to organize this event with the overall aim to enhance automation and mechanization to increase the farm productivity and profitability and also to reduce the drudgery.”

NAHEP is commenced by NAHEP in November 2017, is a project of the Government of India and the World Bank, which aims to support the National Agriculture Research and Education Systems for providing more suitable and enhanced quality education to the students.

In Twitter/Facebook handle, it said:

“Taking forward the vision of our Hon’ble PM, ICAR has been playing a leadership role in making agricultural higher education more relevant for the future. In this regard, ICAR is organizing KRITAGYA- Ag-Tech Hackathon to promote innovation in farm mechanization- A joint initiative by NAHEP and Agricultural Engineering Division.”

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