New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- India's next agricultural revolution will be powered by artificial intelligence, Union Minister for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh said, positioning AI as the central pillar of farm policy, research and investment architecture.

Addressing the inaugural session of the 'Global Conference on AI in Agriculture and Investor Summit 2026,' the Minister said AI offers scalable solutions to structural challenges that have long constrained farm productivity, erratic weather, information asymmetry and fragmented markets.

"What AI offers is not a new diagnosis. It offers, finally, a prescription that can scale," he said, adding that even a 10 percent productivity gain for 600 million farmers across the Global South could ...