Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Welfare schemes & GS-III – Biotechnology
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Recently, the importance of Biotech-Krishi Innovation Science Application Network (Biotech-KISAN) programme was highlighted in Lok Sabha during ongoing Monsoon session.
The programme helps in taking innovative biotechnologies to the farmers.
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Biotech-KISAN programme
It is a farmer-centric pan-India scheme.
Developed by: Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology.
It follows a hub-and-spoke model.
It stimulates entrepreneurship and innovation in farmers and also empowers women farmers.
Aim: To understand the problems of water, soil, seed and market faced by the farmers and provide simple solutions to them.
The programme links available science and technology to the farm by first understanding the problem of the local farmer and then providing scientific solutions to those problems.
Currently, there are a total of eight Biotech-KISAN Hubs in different Agro-climatic Zones.
