KRISHI MEGH

KRISHI MEGH

• To protect the precious data of the government's premier research body Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched (on 11th Aug 2020) a data recovery center ‘KRISHI MEGH' (National Agricultural Research & Education System -Cloud Infrastructure and Services) set up in Hyderabad. Currently, the main data center of the ICAR is at the Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) in Delhi. ICAR's current center is in a seismic zone and hence there is always a threat of losing the data. A data recovery center in a safe place will always be better to save our precious agriculture-related data.
• The data recovery center (Krishi Megh) has been set up at the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM), Hyderabad. Krishi Megh will integrate the ICAR-Data Centre at ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi with the Disaster Recovery Centre at the ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad. Krishi Megh has been set up under the National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP), funded by both the Government of India and the World Bank. 
• [NAHEP was designed for strengthening the national agricultural education system in India with the overall objective to provide more relevant and high-quality education to the agricultural university students that are in tune with the New Education Policy 2020.]
• NAARM, Hyderabad has been chosen for Krishi Megh as it lies in a different seismic zone with regard to the Data Centre at ICAR-IASRI in New Delhi. Hyderabad is also suitable as skilled IT manpower is available along with other suitable climatic conditions such as low humidity level which is controllable in the data center environment.

Important features of KRISHI MEGH

• The data recovery center (Krishi Megh) at NAARM is synchronized with the data center at IASRI. It has been built to mitigate the risk, enhance the quality, availability, and accessibility of e-governance, research, extension, and education in the field of agriculture in India.
• Krishi Megh is equipped with the latest artificial intelligence and deep learning software for building and deploying deep learning-based applications through image analysis, disease identification in livestock, etc.
• Krishi Megh is a new chapter in 'Digital India', enabling the farmers, researchers, students, and policymakers to be more equipped with the updated and latest information regarding agriculture and research.
• Krishi Megh is a step forward towards the digital agriculture of 'New India'.

Source: PIB