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Full time

DURATION

24 Months

The M.Sc. (Agriculture Analytics) is Jointly offered by DA-IICT, Anand Agriculture University and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing with active participation of Industries/Academia by offering value added courses.

Indian agriculture contributes 16% of overall GDP and 60% of the total employment in the country. But it suffers from various crisis e.g. fragmentation of the land holding, high input cost, climate change etc. which has reduced the farmers’ income substantially with time.

“Government of India has identified thrust areas for increasing farmers’ income. Some of the key thrust areas identified under Digital India for Ministry of Agriculture &Farmers’ Welfare are incorporation of space technologies, development of mobile apps, GIS Mapping etc. Developing technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc. are interrelated and are used to optimize the decision making process in agriculture sector. (Doubling Farmers’ Income – Chapter 7, Volume XII)”.

Agriculture Analytics is a multidisciplinary program of two major disciplines namely Agriculture and Data Analytics. It is a two year Post Graduate Program, which is jointly offered by DA-IICT, Gandhinagar (https://www.daiict.ac.in/), Anand Agriculture University, Anand (http://www.aau.in/) and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun (https://www.iirs.gov.in/), premier universities/Institutes in ICT, Agriculture and Space Technology domain, respectively. The program is aimed at nurturing students, with insights and the know-how to take the sector into the future. The course will introduce students to concepts of data analytics, viz. descriptive, predictive and prescriptive, in agriculture and will empower the students to eliminate speculative farming and usher in the age of predictive agriculture. This is a multidisciplinary program of agriculture and data analytics.

A unique feature of this program is introduction of value added courses to be offered by industries. The courses allow certification by the industries after successful completion of the tests. The courses offered are of two categories – domain and technology specific areas. Domain specific courses are Crop Yield Modeling by SATSURE Analytics, Enhanced Weather Forecasting by IBM India, Spatial Analysis with ArcGIS Pro by ESRI India, AI in Agritechnology Business by AMNEX Info Technologies. The technology specific courses are Visualisation and Story Telling tools by Analytics Vidhya, Microwave Data Processing by SATSURE Analytics.

Eligibility Criteria

A Bachelor’s degree with an aggregate of 60% or its equivalent, as per the norms set by the Degree granting Institute/University in Agriculture and allied sciences, Environmental Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Information Technology

A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology from a recognized University with an aggregate of 60% or its equivalent, as per the norms set by the Degree granting Institute/University in Computer Science, Information Technology

Candidates appearing in their final year Degree examination and expecting to complete it by July 2025 may also apply. However, their final admission will be subject to the condition that they obtain an aggregate of 60% marks, or its equivalent as per the norms set by the degree granting institute/university.

All admitted candidates have to submit their degree certificates or proof of completion of Degree, before 30 October 2025 failing which their admission is liable to cancellation.

Professionals working in agriculture domain and satisfying the above educational qualification are also welcome to apply. Maximum age limit is 45 years as on last date of filling the application form.

The decision of the concerned authorities of DA-IICT, AAU and IIRS regarding eligibility of any candidate shall be final.

Age: Maximum age limit is 45 years for this program.

Admission Details

There will be three components to the process: (1) an entrance test, (2) an interview and (3) academic credentials.

The candidates are shortlisted for the interview on the basis of an entrance test.

The entrance test to be conducted at selected centers all over the country. The tentative list of centers is: DAIICT Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Benguluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Patna, Jaipur, Kolkata, New Delhi, Pune, Rajkot, Surat, Udaipur, Bhavnagar, Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Guwahati, Jammu, Kochi, Lucknow, Pant Nagar, Porbandar, Ranchi and Vijayawada.

Interview will be held for the shortlisted candidates based on their performance in the entrance test.

The final merit list for admission will be prepared on the basis of the scores obtained in the (a) entrance test which comprises of 50%, (b) interview which comprises of 30% and (c) academic credentials of 10th, 12th and graduation marks which comprises of 20%.