Bhubaneswar, Feb. 23 -- India's next major leap in agriculture will be driven by artificial intelligence, Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Jitendra Singh, said on Sunday, outlining a comprehensive AI-led transformation of the farm sector.

Speaking at the inaugural session of the Global Conference on AI in Agriculture and Investor Summit 2026 (AI4Agri 2026) in Mumbai, the Minister described AI as the first scalable solution to long-standing structural constraints in agriculture, including erratic weather, fragmented markets and limited access to timely information.

"What AI offers is not a new diagnosis. It offers, finally, a prescription that can scale," he said, noting that even a 10 percent productivity...