Cisco, The/Nudge launch contest in pact with govt

The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation and Cisco, in association with the Federal government of India, nowadays introduced the ‘Cisco Agri Challenge’, aimed at mobilising agri-tech start out-ups to innovate answers that have the possible to positively affect at least ten million small farmers.

With a prize purse of ₹2 crore, the problem will run in stages more than twelve months. It will assistance contributors in producing, screening, and scaling answers that aid relieve the troubles of small money and diminishing profitability farmers in India are dealing with.

K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Govt of India, who is co-web hosting the problem, stated, “Such a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaboration will engage in a catalytic purpose in employing scientific and technological interventions in agriculture, thereby bettering farmers’ efficiency and doubling farmers’ money. It will give way to a new behaviour of seamless collaboration among the Federal government, Academia, and Market for addressing global societal difficulties.”

Entries to the ‘Cisco Agri Challenge’ are now open at https://prize.thenudge.org/

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