Smart India Hackathon 2022: Bengaluru students among winners for developing app for farmers | Education News,The Indian Express
The six-member team developed a website and a mobile application for farmers that suggest crops for a particular season based on water availability.
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Smart India Hackathon 2022: Bengaluru students among winners for developing app for farmers
The six-member team developed a website and a mobile application for farmers that suggest crops for a particular season based on water availability.
Written by Sanath Prasad
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Bengaluru | Updated: September 1, 2022 12:08:22 pm
The SIH is a nationwide initiative by the Union Ministry of Education to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems in daily life and inculcate a culture of product innovation. (Image credits: Sanath Prasad)Students from Bengaluru’s CMR Institute of Technology (CMRIT) were among the winners at the finale of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2022 held in Mumbai on August 25 and 26 for developing a website and a mobile application that suggest crops for a particular season based on water availability. They won the prize for their solution for the problem statement ‘water availability-based crop-specific advisory’ that was given by the Central Water Commission (CWC), Union Ministry of Jal Shakti.
The SIH is a nationwide initiative by the Union Ministry of Education to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems in daily life and inculcate a culture of product innovation.
The winning team was called Code Hydrotopes and led by Vaibhav B. The other members of the team were Louise Patra, Manisha Kumari, Mohnish Kamalaksha, Devadathan Menon and Adithya Anbazhagan, who all belong to either the electrical or computer science engineering streams. The team was mentored by Dr Sharmila KP, Dr Adarsh Rag S and Pratik Mukesh Bharuka.
Vaibhav said that the team focussed on India’s growing water crisis as a result of exploited farming methods and depleted groundwater levels which are also leading to low crop productivity.
The application created by Code Hydrotopes suggests planting various other crops instead of conventional crops so that farmers can minimise the risks of low productivity and loss in their venture.
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