Addressing delegates from across the world at the inaugural function of a three-day convention on Big data in Agriculture-2019 at the ICRISAT campus, Jayesh Ranjan said the State government believes that big data tools will certainly enhance the yield and incomes of farmers.

Underlining the importance of big data in governance, the Principal Secretary said that Telangana government has been effectively utilising big data in designing and implementing various schemes. Stating that big data tools were helping the governments to take quick decisions, he said the state police was also utilising big data effectively to make policing easy. He further observed that big data was helpful for the government in introducing and monitoring a number of schemes in healthcare.