Krishi Megh

Subject: Schemes

Context:

Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare virtually launched the KrishiMegh (National Agricultural Research & Education System -Cloud Infrastructure and Services).

Concept:

• KrishiMegh is a new chapter in digital India enabling the farmers, researchers, students and policy makers more equipped with updated and latest information regarding agriculture, research, education and extension in digital form generated by ICAR institutes and State Agriculture Universities
• KrishiMegh is to protect the precious data of the government’s premier research body ICAR.
• The data recovery centre has been set up at National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad.
• ICAR-KrishiMegh at NAARM Hyderabad is synchronized with ICAR-Data Center at ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi has been built to mitigate the risk, enhance the quality, availability and accessibility of e-governance, research, extension and education in the field of agriculture in India.
• This new Centre has latest AI/Deep learning software/tools kits for building and deploying of deep learning based applications such as disease and pest identification using image analysis, detection of maturity and ripening of fruits through image analysis, disease identification in livestock etc.