Bill Gates shows interest in e-agriculture and e-payments project in India

Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently met Ravi Shankar Prasad, the IT minister of India and expressed his interest in e-agriculture and e-payments project in India.

He also finds that agriculture in India is a huge market as it employees the majority of workforce.

He backed his statement by saying that he was amazed to see India progressing through Green Revolution. He also showed his awareness towards the challenges; India is facing, such as malnutrition and climate change.

He further added that addressing these challenges and achieving the government's vision of doubling farmer income by 2022 will require advances in science and technology to boost productivity.

Gate was especially excited about developing apps for the two platforms, showing a lot more interest in e-payment platforms in India. Praising the government for being able to get a billion people on Adhaar, Gates also discussed how the government should look at connecting the soil health to the unique identity which can help developers to build apps that will help make a farmer’s life much easier. He ended by emphasizing his interest in investing in e-payment and e-agriculture start-ups.

Bill Gates was here to give lecture at NITI Aayog on 'Transforming India', where he said, "The Prime Minister's bold move to demonetise high-denomination notes and replace these with new ones with high-security features is an important step to deflate India's shadow economy."

However on being asked about the same topic by The Hindu, he clearly contradicted from his earlier remark by saying, "No opinion" on this issue.