India, July 22 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
The government has employed Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and IoT-enabled systems to improve crop productivity, sustainability and farmer livelihoods, and to address various challenges in the agricultural sector to aid farmers, etc. Some initiatives are given below:
'Kisan e-Mitra' is a voice-based AI-powered chatbot developed to assist farmers with responses to their queries on the PM KisanSammanNidhi scheme. This solution supports 11 regional languages and is evolving to assist with other government programs. At present, it handles over 20,000 farmer queries daily and so far, more than 95 lakh queries have been answered.
The National Pest Surveillance...