It is clearly noted that two-thirds of the population is in rural areas, while two thirds of the all the resources are in urban areas. New technologies are coming up day-by-day. They are enabling the transfer of the latter strengths to the former. Those days are gone now, like people are looking towards sky for nor rain to sow and nourish their crops. Still, there are several parts of India remaining doing the same. ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics) mixed up with Microsoft to add technology in the Agriculture. Microsoft is using ‘Azure cloud’ platform to study 40 years of data on weather patterns, soil conditions and more; built a modeling framework with ICRISAT, applied machine learning technologies and started sending SMS advisories to the farmers. Cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies and powerful communication and collaboration tools- all of which today come at low costs- are enabling societies to gather and analyze large volume of data in ways that were impossible before, and deliver critical and useful information to the least privileged.
Not only in agriculture but also health, education, technology has the potential to transform lives and a number of companies are taking the first step. Airtel, Google like agencies are revolutionizing the world with their capability. A number of startups like this should come up to work on a variety of models that exploit new technologies.
By- Dr. Bhawana Asnani.
Matter Referenced: Times of India, Ahmedabad, Friday, 15th Nov., 2017.
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