By Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has burdened the necessity for additional funding in agricultural analysis and extension, to attain sustainable features in agricultural productiveness.
He stated that expenditure on analysis and improvement in India was lower than one per cent of the contribution of agriculture within the Gross Development Product (GDP), and fewer than what different creating and developed nations had been spending on that entrance.
Addressing the fourth commencement ceremony of PGDM (ABM), ICAR- National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) in Hyderabad on Saturday, he felt that funding in genomics, molecular breeding and nanotechnology was the way in which ahead.
Terming the position of extension employees, researchers, agricultural scientists and agro-business professionals as ‘indispensable’; he felt that improvement of latest applied sciences for sustainable manufacturing should be taken to farmers with the slogan ‘lab to land’.
He spoke concerning the significance of bringing synergy between agriculture and fashionable applied sciences like drones, synthetic intelligence and so forth, by creating scalable and customised merchandise to the farms, and hoped mobile-based extension companies can be delivered to farmers distant from analysis stations.
