India, New Delhi — May 3, 1990Ministry of Agriculture, Special Strategy Cell
The conference room smelled faintly of old paper and bitter coffee. But the whiteboard at the front gleamed with a single word in bold blue ink:
AGRINOVA
Aryan, flanked by Minister of Agriculture Shankar Deo and AI scientist Dr. Priya Bhatt, faced a room of bureaucrats, technocrats, and exasperated food economists.
"Gentlemen and ladies," Aryan began, "if India is to feed the world tomorrow, we must reinvent how we grow today."
The AgriNova Framework
Aryan walked them through the concept.
Geo-Mapped Cropland Registry:Every cultivated land parcel in India would be digitally tagged — connected to Aadhar and layered with real-time satellite imaging.→ No more fake subsidy claims. No more dead-field data.
Soil Health Passport:A QR-coded record of each field's pH, mineral deficiency, and crop history.→ Enables precision farming and avoids soil exhaustion.
Agri-AI Advisory Network:Dr. Priya unveiled her model:
A neural net trained on monsoon cycles, pest outbreaks, and crop profitability.
Integrated into rural BharatLink nodes — every farmer could ask for crop guidance via voice in their native language.
Cold Chain Micro Grants:Any village cluster that built and maintained a certified storage unit would get 100% electricity cost relief and market price protection insurance.
AgriNova Credit Scores:Farmers would receive dynamic risk-adjusted loan eligibility based on land productivity, digital input use, and delivery to verified co-ops.
A National AgriStack
"Every grain we grow must be seen," Aryan said."Every drop of fertilizer used must be justified. Every litre of irrigation must be tracked. Not by control, but by data."
The plan was met with a stunned silence, then cautious applause.
Minister Shankar whispered, "Sir, this will make half our manual systems obsolete."
Aryan nodded, "Yes — and the other half, unnecessary."
Pilot Program — Punjab, Bihar, Telangana
Three states volunteered immediately.
In Punjab, drone-seeded wheat fields were monitored via real-time nutrient sensors.
In Bihar, women-led AgriNova Centers began teaching precision irrigation.
In Telangana, AI-linked pest alerts reduced chemical usage by 40%.
May 15, 1990 — National Radio Broadcast
Aryan addressed the nation from the newly built AgriNova Headquarters in Nagpur:
"In the past, we were told that to grow more, we must suffer more. But that's false. To grow more, we must know more."
"Our farmers are not illiterate. They are under-informed. We will change that — permanently."
"This is not a scheme. This is an awakening."
System Notification
[Ding! Task Completed: Agricultural Reform Framework Deployment][Reward: Molecular Water Retention Gel Formula (desert use)][Reward: Subtask Unlocked: Nutrient-Specific Crop Engineering]
Aryan stared at the molecular formula materializing on the screen before him.
"India will bloom… even where rain forgets to fall."