The growing problem of paucity of skilled labour

  India, where around 58 per cent of rural households still depend on agriculture and allied industry, is witnessing a huge scarcity of skilled tractor operators. Agriculture, which accounts for 14 per cent of the country’s GDP and about 11 per cent of the country’s exports, has still not reaped the benefits of modernisation. It can be safely said that the per capita productivity in the country for farming activity is still among one of the lowest in the world.

Automation as a possible solution

   Automation has come a long way, from watches that kept track of time to autonomous robots that assemble complex machinery. Automation is a technology that speaks about the ingenuity of the human mind to harness power without needing to be supervised.

  Kaustubh stumbled upon the issues faced by farmers and took it upon himself to find a solution – an automated and....