Thrust Areas
- Enhance agricultural mechanization, improve structures and systems for production of material from plants, animals, and insects.
- Incorporate Artificial Intelligence, robotics, automation, and IoT in smart machines for production and post-production unit operations and energy management.
- Implement strategies to minimize food losses and waste.
- Develop methods for post-harvest processing, preservation, storage, and value addition of agricultural commodities of plant, animal, and microbial origin including cotton and other natural fibres.
- Establish databases and models based on scientific assessments/studies for building national and regional policies in the areas of agricultural mechanization, food loss and waste, renewable energy from biomass and livestock, etc.
- Utilize indigenous solutions and cutting-edge technologies for efficient storage and transport of agricultural produce, rapid methods/instruments for analysis, food control, packaging systems, biomass utilization, green energy, and human safety.
- Develop processes, equipment, and pilot plants for economic utilization of bio-waste and by-products to maximize economic, environmental, and societal benefits.
- Capacity building and entrepreneurship development in the area of farm mechanization, processing and value addition of food/fibre crops, food safety and control, and secondary agriculture.
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