<p>New Delhi: India plans to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the food processing sector to improve efficiency, enhance farmers' incomes and reduce the environmental impact, officials said on Wednesday.</p>.<p>At a conference organised by NIFTEM (National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management) on using frontier technologies in the sector, senior bureaucrats and government advisors stressed the need for a roadmap to deploy AI tools, which are still at a nascent stage in the country's massive food processing industry.</p>.<p>"As an industry, we need to create a roadmap. The MEITY secretary has come on board. I am sure he is going to be a big support in this endeavour," Food Processing Secretary Anita Praveen said, referring to the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).</p>.Google to bring personalised AI assistant 'Gems' to phones.<p>MEITY Secretary S Krishnan pitched for wider adoption of AI, saying some work was already happening in agriculture but the food processing sector was still in the early stages of using such technologies.</p>.<p>NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said efficient food processing was 'climate smart', helping enhance farmer incomes, satisfy consumers and reduce environmental impact amid increasing climate change challenges.</p>.Data crunching keeps England ahead of the game, AI to unearth new gems.<p>He suggested using AI to develop simple portable devices for quality assaying of agricultural produce, which could be a 'great service to the nation'.</p><p>"Can we think of low-scale devices to check the quality of the produce? In the absence of assaying devices, we are still focusing on quantity rather than quality," Chand said.</p>.<p> The officials said AI tools could help improve overall sector efficiency as India aims to reach net zero emissions by 2070.</p>
<p>New Delhi: India plans to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the food processing sector to improve efficiency, enhance farmers' incomes and reduce the environmental impact, officials said on Wednesday.</p>.<p>At a conference organised by NIFTEM (National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management) on using frontier technologies in the sector, senior bureaucrats and government advisors stressed the need for a roadmap to deploy AI tools, which are still at a nascent stage in the country's massive food processing industry.</p>.<p>"As an industry, we need to create a roadmap. The MEITY secretary has come on board. I am sure he is going to be a big support in this endeavour," Food Processing Secretary Anita Praveen said, referring to the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).</p>.Google to bring personalised AI assistant 'Gems' to phones.<p>MEITY Secretary S Krishnan pitched for wider adoption of AI, saying some work was already happening in agriculture but the food processing sector was still in the early stages of using such technologies.</p>.<p>NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said efficient food processing was 'climate smart', helping enhance farmer incomes, satisfy consumers and reduce environmental impact amid increasing climate change challenges.</p>.Data crunching keeps England ahead of the game, AI to unearth new gems.<p>He suggested using AI to develop simple portable devices for quality assaying of agricultural produce, which could be a 'great service to the nation'.</p><p>"Can we think of low-scale devices to check the quality of the produce? In the absence of assaying devices, we are still focusing on quantity rather than quality," Chand said.</p>.<p> The officials said AI tools could help improve overall sector efficiency as India aims to reach net zero emissions by 2070.</p>