Telangana: Saagu Baagu

The state leadership envisions digital transformation in agriculture sector to ultimately improve farmer’s income. It recognizes that emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Remote Sensing, Drones etc. can make a significant contribution in growth of the sector. 

Emerging technologies would add value to three crucial stakeholder groups – farmers, governance institutions and market players while creating macro level impact at the startup and agriculture ecosystem level.

Government of Telangana collaborated with C4IR India, World Economic Forum, and initiated Project Saagu Baagu in 2021, focused on transforming agriculture value chain leveraging agritech technologies.

The Project Saagu Baagu led by Government of Telangana in partnership with the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to enhance farmer's incomes and improve agricultural productivity.

The pilot phase of the project was implemented from May 2022 to March 2023, by Digital Green as Project Implementation Partner, in consortium with three start-ups, AgNext, Krishi Tantra and Kalgudi. The pilot phase was implemented with 7,000 chili farmers in Khammam district and initial results have shown promising increase in farmer’s profits.

On the digital public infrastructure front, the Government of Telangana launched India’s first agricultural data exchange (AdeX) in collaboration between World Economic and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2023.