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Maharashtra government to clasp a two-day planetary Conference connected Artificial Intelligence successful Agriculture and Investment Summit- “AI for Agri 2026” nether the ‘State Agriculture–Artificial Intelligence Policy’ from February 22 and 23 at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai.
An organization halfway for Artificial Intelligence and Agritech Innovation has been established to instrumentality the policy. The authorities has approved ₹500 crore successful the archetypal signifier for its implementation, arsenic per the Agriculture Ministry office.
“To guarantee that farmers successful Maharashtra summation entree to planetary technologies done Artificial Intelligence (AI) and follow innovative technologies successful agriculture the league volition beryllium held,” said Agriculture Minister Dattatray Bharane, adding that the inaugural volition beryllium a large measurement toward implementing the Maharashtra Agriculture–Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025–2029.
The Agriculture Artificial Intelligence argumentation promotes the applicable usage of AI successful agriculture and allied sectors and make the integer infrastructure specified arsenic MahaAgriX (Maharashtra Agriculture Data Exchange), AI-enabled traceability systems, AI-based geospatial quality engine, farmer-centric AI advisory level – MahaVistar.
According to the Agriculture Ministry, farmers and FPOs volition summation vulnerability to AI-based harvest advisory services, climate-resilient workplace readying tools, aboriginal informing systems for pests and diseases, harvest accumulation forecasting, marketplace quality systems, traceability-enabled worth chains.
The league volition beryllium organised successful collaboration with planetary and nationalist partners including the World Economic Forum (WEF), FAO, UNDP, IFAD, World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). The participants volition see policymakers, planetary organizations, scientists, world institutions, exertion leaders, startups, investors, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), and representatives of farming communities. The salient participants volition beryllium Nandan Nilekani, Chairman and Co-founder of Infosys and Founding Chairman of UIDAI (Aadhaar), Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson of MSSRF.
The accumulation volition showcase cutting-edge innovations utilizing AI and emerging technologies crossed the cultivation worth chain, including precision farming, distant sensing and geospatial intelligence, AI-based advisory systems, clime hazard analytics, traceability solutions, integer agri-finance, and marketplace linkage platforms.
