KRITAGYA
- September 17, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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KRITAGYA
Subject: Government schemes
Concept:
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research with its National Agricultural Higher Education Project and Crop Science Division is organizing Hackathon 3.0 ‘’KRITAGYA” on promoting ‘speed breeding for crop improvement’.
- KRITAGYA is: KRI for Krishi meaning Agriculture, TA for Taknik meaning Technology and GYA for Gyan meaning Knowledge.
- In this competition, students, faculty and innovators/entrepreneurs from any university/technical institute across the country can apply and participate in the program as a group.
- Participating students can collaborate with local start-ups, students from technology institutes and can win up-to INR 5 Lakhs.
- This event is also extending the support to winners for further development in their concept propositions, its scalability and future plan in collaboration with Agri Business Incubators, MSMEs and other investors through support of ICAR.