DA-IICT Introduced new Program M.Sc Agriculture Analytics | Program Overview | Eligibility | Intake

Описание: The M.Sc. (Agriculture Analytics) is Jointly offered by DA-IICT, Anand Agriculture University and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing with active participation of Industries by offering value added courses.

Indian agriculture contributes 16% of overall GDP and 60% of the total employment in the country. But it suffers from various crisis e.g. fragmentation of the land holding, high input cost, climate change etc. which has reduced the farmers’ income substantially with time.

“Government of India has identified thrust areas for increasing farmers’ income. Some of the key thrust areas identified under Digital India for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare are incorporation of space technologies, development of mobile apps, GIS Mapping etc. Developing technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc. are interrelated and are used to optimize the decision making process in agriculture sector. (Doubling Farmers’ Income – Chapter 7, Volume XII)”.

Agriculture Analytics is a multidisciplinary program of two major disciplines namely Agriculture and Data Analytics. It is a two year Post Graduate Program, which is jointly offered by DA-IICT, Gandhinagar (https://www.daiict.ac.in/), Anand Agriculture University, Anand (http://www.aau.in/) and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun (https://www.iirs.gov.in/), premier universities / Institutes in ICT, Agriculture and Space Technology domain, respectively. The program is aimed at nurturing students, with insights and the know-how to take the sector into the future. The course will introduce students to concepts of data analytics, viz.descriptive, predictive and prescriptive, in agriculture and will empower the students to eliminate speculative farming and usher in the age of predictive agriculture. This is a multidisciplinary program of agriculture and data analytics.

A unique feature of this program is introduction of value added courses to be offered by industries. The courses allow certification by the industries after successful completion of the tests. The courses offered are of two categories – domain and technology specific areas. Domain specific courses are Crop Yield Modeling by SATSURE Analytics, Enhanced Weather Forecasting by IBM India, Spatial Analysis with ArcGIS Pro by ESRI India, AI in Agritechnology Business by AMNEX Info Technologies. The technology specific courses are Visualisation and Story Telling tools by Analytics Vidhya, Microwave Data Processing by SATSURE Analytics.