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.