A team of students from IIT Kharagpur design the winning bot in the Agrobot Design and Innovation Challenge addressing mechanised farming in hilly terrain, automated seed metering mechanism for uneven irregular seeds, and transplantation.

Plants are dependent on their microbiome for growth, health, nutrient uptake, stress resilience and resistance to pathogens. This, until recently, was untapped territory. The potential of harnessing the plant microbiome could revolutionise agriculture as we see it now!