Lok Sabha Question No. 1466 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-29
Subject: Hybrid Agricultural Intelligence
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Shyamkumar Daulat Barve

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1466

TO BE ANSWERED ON 29 TH  JULY, 2025

## HYBRID AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

1466.   SHRI SHYAMKUMAR DAULAT BARVE:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ षि और ककसान कल्याण मंत्री be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is making active efforts towards developing models like  'Hybrid  Agricultural  Intelligence  (HAI)  by  integrating  agricultural  practices  and Artificial Intelligence (AI);

(b) if so, the details of the vision, goals and primary components of HAI (e.g. datedriven  decision  support  systems,  climate-smart  agriculture,  and  digitization  of indigenous knowledge);

- (c) the details of major research project, pilot projects, or policy initiatives related to HAI initiated so far and Government in these projects; and

(d) the number of research institutes, agricultural universities, technical institutes (like IITs, IIITs) and multi-disciplinary centres linked in collaborative manner in this perspective?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ षि और ककसान कल्याण राज्य मंत्री (SHRI BHAGIRATH CHOUDHARY)

(a) & (b): Artificial  Intelligence  based  models/technologies  developments  are  in focus of R&D programme of the government for achieving sustainable, climate smart, efficient and  locally adaptive solutions for precision farming,  enhanced  crop production, sustainable agriculture and improved live-stock management. Some of the initiatives by Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare are:

- 'Kisan  e -Mitra'  and  AI -powered chatbot to assist  farmers  with  queries about  the  Pm  Kisan  Samman  Nidhi  Scheme.  This  solution  supports multiple  languages  and  is  evolving  to  assist  with  other  government programs.

- National Pest Surveillance System for tackling the loss of produce due to climate change. This system utilizes AI and Machine learning to detect crop issues, enabling timely intervention for healthier crops.
- AI based analytics using field photographs for crop health assessment and  crop  health  monitoring  using  satellite,  weather  &  soil  moisture datasets for rice and wheat crop.
- (c): Some of the research projects related to the above fields are as below:
- Precision Agriculture
- Intelligent irrigation system for field crops
- Plant disease detection using UAV multispectral imagery
- Yield prediction using multi-temporal data
- AI enabled jute fibre grading
- Monitoring and early Infection detection in dairy cattle
- Pregnancy detection in dairy animals
- Precision livestock farming systems
- Precision enclosure culture and fisheries management

(d): Some Institutes involved in the research related to the above subjects are as below:

ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal; ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana; Indian Institute of Technology,  Kharagpur;  Punjab  Agricultural University,  Ludhiana;  ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Research, New Delhi; ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal;  ICAR-Indian  Institute  of  Horticultural  Research,  Bengaluru;  ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore; ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore;  ICAR-Central  Institute  for  Dryland  Agriculture,  Hyderabad;  Centre  for Development  of  Advanced  Computing,  Kolkata;  Sher-e-Kashmir  University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Kashmir.

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