Student Innovation
AICTE Open Innovation: Agriculture & Rural Development (Software) — Smallholder farmers in India suffer from low yields and unseasonal weather losses due to lack of hyper-local precision farming advice, fragmented supply chains, and opaque mandi pricing. Build an AI-Driven Precision Agritech, Soil Health, and Smart Sowing Intelligence Platform that combines satellite vegetation indices (Sentinel-2 NDVI/NDRE), IoT soil moisture telemetry, AI crop disease diagnostics, and dynamic mandi price forecasting into a unified vernacular farming companion.
Smart India Hackathon 2026 Problem Statement PS-26197: "Student Innovation", Ministry: AICTE. Strategy & Architecture via SIH ONE (https://sihone.pages.dev/ps/26197)
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