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Cisco Along With Govt Launches Competition To Attract Agri-Tech Start Ups
Cisco India and SAARC Managing Director (Public Affairs and Strategic Engagements) Harish Krishnan said the company aims to accelerate digital transformation in the agriculture sector through the Cisco Agri Challenge platform.
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IT firm Cisco India on Friday announced a competition with a prize money of Rs 2 crore, as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, to find agri-tech start-ups with innovative solutions.
The Cisco Agri Challenge is being co-hosted by K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, while conceptualised and managed by NGO The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation , it said in a statement.
Cisco along with govt launches competition to attract agri-tech start ups
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The Cisco Agri Challenge will discover ground-breaking agritech solutions that can help small and marginal farmers improve their farm production and income opportunities
It will be particularly looking at AI and other deep tech based products that can enable cost-efficient and scalable gradation of crop quality
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Cisco and The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation, in association with the Government of India, has announced the Cisco Agri Challenge to discover ground-breaking agritech solutions that can help small and marginal farmers improve their farm production and income opportunities.
Networking giant Cisco on Friday said it has partnered with nonprofit organisation The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation and the Indian government for an agri challenge with a prize purse of Rs 2 crore aimed at mobilising agri-tech startups to innovate solutions that have the potential to positively impact at least 10 million small farmers. The Cisco Agri Challenge challenge will run in stages over twelve months. It will support participants in developing, testing, and scaling solutions that help alleviate the issues of low income and diminishing profitability farmers in India are facing. Such a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaboration will play a catalytic role in implementing scientific and technological interventions in agriculture, thereby improving farmers productivity and doubling farmers income, K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, who is co-hosting the challenge, said in a statement.
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