India, Feb. 1 -- In her Budget 2026 speech earlier today, finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman proposed a multilingual AI tool to offer customised advisory to farmers.

The minister said that the tool, Bharat VISTAAR, will enhance farm productivity, enable better decisions for farmers and reduce risk by providing customised advisory. She added that the proposed platform will also deploy AI tools on India's Agri Stack portals.

"I propose to launch Bharat VISTAAR, a multilingual AI tool that shall integrate the Agri Stack portals and the ICAR package on agricultural practices with AI systems. This will enhance farm productivity, enable better decisions for farmers and reduce risk by providing customised advisory," said FM Sitharaman. ...