We all are aware that India's economy is heavily reliant on agriculture. More than 58 percentage of rural families rely mostly on agriculture for their subsistence. On the other hand, environmental pollution has emerged as a global problem. The strain of a developing nation like India's extremely high population density exacerbates the issues ICT and electronics have the potential to ameliorate this situation significantly. In this scenario, ICT and electronics have the opportunity to enhance all agricultural and environmental operations significantly. As a result, networking and collaborations are crucial in diverse disciplines like electronics and ICT, agriculture and the environment. To boost productivity and profitability while also reducing labour-intensive tasks, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), Government of India, is supporting a national programme on Electronics and ICT Applications in Agriculture and Environment (AgriEnlcs) being run by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata. The technology verticals employed by C-DAC to solve various problems under the ongoing AgriEnics program are loT, Sensors & sensing systems, Robotics, Image Processing. and Al-ML I am happy to note that the program is not limited to executing a few R&D projects but also supports India's creative brains by providing a research platform through the AgriEnics Grand Challenge program. The country's researchers, budding scientists and entrepreneurs, will be able to innovate and solve a few real problems, at least up to the PoC level. One or two promising outcomes of this effort may be nurtured further to the product level with handholding support by C-DAC scientists and Industry experts. I am also thankful to MeitY for providing financial support to this initiative of C-DAC Kolkata centre and creating a wonderful scientific fraternity comprising academicians and industry experts to monitor and guide the AgriEnics program. I wish the AgriEnics Grand Challenge program great success I also congratulate the Team AgriEnics, the Agriculture and Environment Electronics (AEE) Group of C-DAC, Kolkata Centre. Thank you all

India's economy is heavily reliant on agriculture. More than 58 percentage of rural families rely mostly on agriculture for their subsistence. On the other hand, since the middle of the previous century, environmental pollution has emerged as a worldwide problem. In particular, the strain of a developing nation like India's extremely high population density exacerbates the issues. ICT and electronics have the potential to significantly ameliorate this situation. In this scenario, ICT and electronics have the opportunity to significantly enhance all agricultural and environmental operations. As a result, networking and collaborations are crucial in diverse disciplines like electronics and ICT, agriculture and the environment. In order to boost productivity and profitability while also reducing labour-intensive tasks, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, is supporting a national programme on Electronics and ICT Applications in Agriculture and Environment (AgriEnIcs) being run by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata

The AgriEnIcs programme brings the idea of multifaceted empowerment to the agricultural and environmental sectors through use of the State-of-Art, Internet of Things and Information and Communication Technologies to converge the R&D, academia and industry ecosystems to the need of the users, enroute to an independent and self-reliant agricultural and environmental economy under 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'.