{"id":29154,"date":"2025-01-04T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29154"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:25:31","slug":"project-vistaar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/project-vistaar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Project VISTAAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Project VISTAAR:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>digital platform<\/strong> designed by integrating information about start-ups in the <strong>agriculture and allied sectors.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the <strong>agricultural extension system through digitalisation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This will help farmers and other stakeholders access the capabilities and offerings of these start-ups more easily.<\/li>\n<li>It contains details on over 12,000 start-ups in the agriculture and farming sectors.<\/li>\n<li>This database serves as a valuable resource for <strong>connecting farmers with relevant technological solutions and services.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The digitalisation of the agricultural extension system will substantially expand its outreach, enabling <strong>every farmer to access high-quality advisory services<\/strong> on crop production, marketing, value addition, and supply chain management.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, the advisory services will provide comprehensive information on government schemes related to agriculture, allied sectors, and rural development, ensuring farmers can benefit from them effectively.<\/li>\n<li>By delivering timely, contextual, and accurate information, the process of digitalisation <strong>will augment the current extension system<\/strong>, ensuring better support for farmers in agriculture and allied fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Digitisation?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the process of converting information from a physical format into a digital one. When this process is leveraged to improve business processes, it is called digitalisation. The results of this process are called digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/iit-madras-agriculture-ministry-to-partner-on-project-vistaar-to-empower-farmers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>DD News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project VISTAAR is a digital platform designed by integrating information about start-ups in the agriculture and allied sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29154","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\/29154","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=29154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}