Mr. Prabhakar Deshmukh, who is currently the Secretary of Water Conservation of Maharashtra has participated in a number of initiatives that improve the condition of farming in the state. He has received several awards for his contribution towards the state. Many implementations of technology, have been happening under the guidance of Mr. Prabhakar Deshmukh in the state of Maharashtra. It has driven the people of Maharashtra to a positive outlook on technology.
One such initiative under the guidance of Prabhakar Deshmukh, is the CROPSAP for Pest Management on major crops in Maharashtra. This project was undertaken in the backdrop of severe outbreak on soybean crop during the year 2008-09 in the state. For this, scientific software was developed to analyze the data on-line. Earlier, this was not the case and only visual observations were used to analyze whatever is required.
The connectivity to software was provided to all the stakeholders. The field staff was all trained according to the technical implementations. Mr. Prabhakar Deshmukh was the Commissioner of Agriculture then, and all of this could be achieved with his continuous support.
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