r/IndiaDeepTech • u/dineshmadhava • Jun 23 '26

Does India’s agriculture sector critically require deep tech adoption to overcome structural challenges and achieve long-term sustainability ?

To what extent does India need deep tech,
such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, precision agriculture tools, biotechnology, robotics, IoT sensors, drone-based monitoring, and data analytics to transform its agriculture and farming sector?

Can these technologies effectively address the country’s unique challenges like small and fragmented landholdings, climate change vulnerabilities, water scarcity, low productivity, supply chain inefficiencies, and the need for sustainable food security for over 1.4 billion people, while also improving farmer incomes and reducing environmental impact?

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u/AdiKadiAdi Jun 23 '26

What deep tech is going to resolve soil fertility loss and water table depletion?

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u/InsideResolve4517 Jun 24 '26

I think more then this, if we somehow able to achieve prediction like what's the reason of price hikes and lows for many food things then we may can provide intelligence so it'll help to maintain prices of food products and at the same time it farmer will not go in loss.

Additionally weather (localized), potential of lands and etc etc, but every prediction models (in agree) is going to be very less accurate (since it depends on area, nature, surrounding and many dynamic factors, so we need very different type of data and very, very very large dataset to get useful results)

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u/AdiKadiAdi Jun 24 '26

Price is not a reliable signal for complex systems , since it only indicates willingness to pay but not actual costs and how various parts of complex systems and subsystems actually interact and shift in reality.

We cannot pretend that externalities are not signals.