{"id":26633,"date":"2024-09-17T08:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26633"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:05:28","slug":"smart-precision-horticulture-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/smart-precision-horticulture-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Precision Horticulture Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Smart Precision Horticulture Programme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It uses <strong>smart technology<\/strong> such as <strong>Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>, drones and data analytics to boost production through maximal use of resources while minimising environmental impact.<\/li>\n<li>It will cover 15,000 acres of land in <strong>five years from 2024-25 to 2028-29<\/strong> and is expected to benefit about 60,000 farmers.\n<ul>\n<li>At present, the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), launched during Covid-19, has provisions for financing infrastructure projects for smart and precision agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Apart from offering financial support, the Centre is also considering <strong>collaborating with the Netherlands and Israel<\/strong>, where tech-based modern farming solutions are being used, through Centres of Excellences (CoEs).<\/li>\n<li>The Centre has also set up 22 <strong>Precision Farming Development Centres<\/strong> (PFDCs) across the country to test new technologies and modify them according to local needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Impacts of Smart and precision farming<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>maximises use of resources<\/strong> like water, fertilisers and pesticides to increase production quality and quantity.<\/li>\n<li>It also insulates farmers from <strong>vagaries of climate change<\/strong> and other uncertainties, besides ensuring sustainable farming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> What is the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme implemented from 2014-15 for the holistic development of horticulture in the country, covering fruits, vegetables, root and tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew and cocoa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/govt-plans-rs-6000-cr-scheme-to-boost-precision-farming-9571571\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>Centre to invest Rs 6,000 crore in smart farming with AI, drones, and data to boost crop yields<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Precision Horticulture Programme uses smart technology such as Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, drones and data analytics to boost production through maximal use of resources while minimising environmental impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}