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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.
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.
The future of cities: The end of the rat race will reshape Canada s urban centres
Tamar Satov, Special to BNN Bloomberg With its âThe Future ofâ series, BNN Bloomberg looks at what is next for our transformed economy and daily lives. , Graphic by BNN Bloomberg
The global pandemic changed everything in 2020. Now it is going to change everything forever. This is part of The Future of series, in which BNN Bloomberg looks at what is next for our transformed economy and daily lives.
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