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This document discusses boosting agricultural productivity in India. It notes that while agriculture employs 70% of the workforce, it only contributes 13% to GDP. It proposes several solutions like motivating students to pursue agriculture, creating agricultural industries, and promoting genetic research. Key priority areas identified are enhancing productivity and competitiveness, improving water resources and irrigation, facilitating diversification, promoting high-growth commodities, and developing markets and credit. The document also discusses reforms needed like improving agricultural research, water management, facilitating higher-value crops, developing livestock and dairy, reforming markets and subsidies, and sustaining the environment.
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In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
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We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
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CAHCETIANS
- 1. SOWING PROSPERITY BOOSTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY T.SATHISH S.SARAVANA KUMAR V.VIJAYA KUMAR S.SIVANESH E.RANJITH KUMAR C. ABDUL HAKEEM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- 2. Agriculture employs 70% of the country’s work force but only contributes to 13% of the GDP 45 70 67 72 80 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 yield weather policy trend innovation extreme factor
- 3. Promoting agriculture everywhere Snap shot of solution proposed: Motivating students right from their school level. Creation of agricultural industry by the government. Promoting and giving preference for genetic research.
- 4. Priority areas for support Enhancing the agricultural productivity, competitiveness and rural growth. • Improving water resources and irrigation/drainage management. • Facilitating agricultural diversification to higher value commodities. • Promoting high growth commodities. • Developing markets, agricultural credit & public expenditures. Poverty alleviation and community actions. Sustaining the environment and future agricultural productivity.
- 5. Promoting new technologies and reforming agricultural research • Research now has little to provide beyond the time-worn packages of the past. • Public extension services are struggling and offer little new knowledge to farmers. • There is too little connection between research and extension, or between these services and the private sector.
- 6. Improving water resources and irrigation/drainage management • Piped conveyance, better on-farm management of water and use of more efficient delivery mechanisms such as drip irrigations are among the actions that could be taken. • Modernizing irrigation and drainage departments to integrate the participation of farmers in managing irrigation water. • Improving cost recovery.
- 7. Facilitating agricultural diversification to higher-value commodities • Encouraging farmers todiversify to higher value commodities will be a significant factor for higher agricultural growth, particularly in rain-fed areas where poverty is high. • Moreover, considerable potential exists for expanding agro-processing and building competitive value chains from producers to urban centers and export markets.
- 8. Promoting high growth commodities • The livestock sector, primarily due to dairy, contributes over a quarter of agricultural GDP and is a source of income for 70% of India’s rural families, mostly those who are poor and headed by women. • A targeted program to tackle these constraints could boost production and have good impact on poverty.
- 9. Developing markets, agricultural credit and public expenditures • India’s legacy of extensive government involvement in agricultural marketing has created restrictions in internal and external trade, resulting in cumbersome and high-cost marketing and transport options for agricultural commodities. • Moreover, subsidies on power, fertilizers and irrigation have progressively come to dominate Government expenditures on the sector
- 10. Sustaining the environment and future agricultural productivity • In parts of India, the over-pumping of water for agricultural use is leading to falling groundwater levels. Conversely, water-logging is leading to the build-up of salts in the soils of some irrigated areas. In rain-fed areas on the other hand, where the majority of the rural population live, agricultural practices need adapting to reduce soil erosion and increase the absorption of rainfall.