IIM Bodh Gaya invites applications for the Inspire Techathon’23 Social Innovation Challenge. The last date to apply for this is July 31, 2023.
An INSPIRE TECHATHON 2023 is an event that fosters innovation intended mainly for technology development and is planned to identify existing challenges for which tech solutions are proposed to solve business problems and social issues. The INSPIRE TECHATHON 2023 is designed to not only help solve problems and also is typically a time-bound competitive event where participants collaborate in teams to build proofs of concept or minimum viable products for a specific pre-defined problem.
Individual Innovators or Startups, a team of a maximum of four members with knowledge, skills or an interest in hardware & software engineering, computer science, agriculture, horticulture or tourism.
Relevant Stakeholder
The Technology to monitor and report the health of soils to avoid and reduce the risk of soil erosion, which reduces the economic impact of plant diseases and pests by improving farmer’s ability to quickly and accurately diagnose and respond to plants /trees/vines with disease and pest issues and the technology can help to improve the efficiency of water usage in agriculture and finds application in open farms, greenhouses, gardening and research and agricultural labs. It can help with guidance about ways to optimize water usage as per the requirement of crops and soil (Crops, flowers, fruits). In case of limited water resources, the farmers can detect and limit watering to only at critical phases of the crop cycle thus not affecting overall yield.
An FPO plays a significant role in mobilizing individual farmers under a structured system of their own to ensure better income and an enhanced livelihood for themselves as a result of economies of scale. However, FPOs are facing several challenges for their sustainability. Important Challenges faced by FPOs are.
Objectives are
Interested candidates can directly apply through this link.
The last date to apply for this is July 31, 2023.
The event Phase 1 & Phase 2 were conducted online and Phase 3 offline.
