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Krishi Megh

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    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Economy
  • Published
    14th Aug, 2020
  • Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare virtually launched Krishi Megh along with KVC ALUNET (Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Chhatr Alumni Network) and Online Accreditation System for Higher Agricultural Educational Institutions (HEI).
  • Krishi Megh is the National Agricultural Research & Education System -Cloud Infrastructure and Services.
  • Its aim is to protect the precious data of the government’s premier research body Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
  • It has been set up at National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) in Hyderabad.
  • Krishi Megh has been set up under the National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP), funded by both the government and World Bank.
  • The data recovery centre at NAARM is synchronized with the data centre at the main data centre of the ICAR is at Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) Delhi.
  • It is a step forward towards digital agriculture of New India.

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