{"id":983063,"date":"2026-01-03T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983063"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:22:36","slug":"punjab-plans-to-use-ai-to-boost-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/punjab-plans-to-use-ai-to-boost-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab plans to use AI to boost agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab government plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture to improve farm productivity, sustainability and farmers&#8217; income, with support from the Centre of Excellence at IIT Ropar, officials said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian chaired a meeting at Punjab Bhawan here to review progress and prepare a roadmap for field-level use of AI-based solutions. <\/p>\n<p>Khudian said new technologies must give clear benefits to farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab government plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture to improve farm productivity, sustainability and farmers&#8217; income, with support from the Centre of Excellence at IIT Ropar, officials said on Thursday. Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian chaired a meeting at Punjab Bhawan here to review progress and prepare a roadmap for field-level use of AI-based solutions. Khudian said new technologies must give clear benefits to farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}