Minister for Higher Education Ashwath Narayan has asked farm and food technology firms, start-ups as well as students to develop solutions to difficulties in agricultural and food technology to help the farming community particularly and the public generally.
On Wednesday, he spoke at the first pre-event of "TechBharat 3.0," which was co-hosted by Laghu Udyog Bharati-Karnataka and the IMS Foundation and focused on "Transforming India's AgriTech, FoodTech, and Agricultural Landscape."
"We require good solutions to step up the agricultural industry so that the farming community gains from technology-related strategies in logistics, soil analysis, waste management, storage, methods, pesticide management, and disease prevention," he said, highlighting the significance of providing technical assistance to the farming community to help them scale up financially and yield-wise.
Infrastructure development, access to markets, ecosystem involvement, and talent development, according to the Minister, are all critical for the ecosystem's continued growth. "We're establishing industries that will enable our district-level students to get employment and work in their local communities," he stated.
Ashwath Narayan stated that the government has chosen numerous tier 2 and tier 3 cities where companies interested in relocation would be offered incentives. He also stated that necessary handholding in the form of infrastructural support will be provided.
The government, according to the Minister, has also developed measures to promote strategic policy interventions in this area.
The youngsters must get educated and come up with ways to make villages thrive and stop urban migration, he added, because the state is a place of growing potential.
Others who spoke were Karisiddappa, the Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University, and B.V. Naidu, Chairman of KDEM.
Participants included government officials, business leaders, subject experts, and agricultural and food technology students.
