Spur innovation in farming with AgHub, Ministers tell start-ups
The Hindu
Agriculture incubation centre started in PJTSAU
The AgHub, an agriculture innovation hub, that opened on the campus of Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) here on Monday shall become a platform for innovative thinking among farmers as there is no better innovator than a farmer, Minister for Municipal Administration, IT and Industries K.T. Rama Rao has said. Speaking after inaugurating the incubation centre along with Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy and Minister for Education P. Sabita Indra Reddy, Mr. Rama Rao said the innovation hub should take the technology from lab to farm and help research in agriculture at primary level with the help of start-ups. He stated that all the 2,601 Rythu Vedikas in the State would be provided connectivity with high-speed Internet. Stating that the challenge ahead was achieving nutritional food security, the Minister said the AgHub, to be functional in the hub-and-spoke model should help farmers adopt and adapt to the changing technology by making the knowledge available in the local language. It should also drive the farming community towards diversification in the cropping patterns, he hoped.More Related News