DD Kisan is an Indian

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agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

television channel, founded by the

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, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is the flagship channel of

Doordarshan Doordarshan (), abbreviated as DD, is India's State-owned enterprise, state-owned public broadcasting, public television broadcaster. Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959, it is owned by the Ministry of Information and B ...

was launched on 26 May 2015. The channel is dedicated to agriculture and related sectors, which disseminates real-time inputs to farmers on new farming techniques,

water conservation Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. Water conservation makes it possible to avoid water scarcity. It covers all the policies, strateg ...

and organic farming among other information.

History

Ahead of

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

, the BJP had declared that if they come in power they would try setting up a dedicated channel for Indian Farmers. The public broadcaster Prasar Bharti which currently runs the '' Krishi Darshan'' program on Doordarshan is one of the longest running programmes on DD National. It was launched on 26 January 1967. DD Kisan have introduced two AI anchors named AI Bhumi and AI Krish that can speak 50 Indian and foreign languages on its 9th anniversary. "These news anchors are computer, which are like human, or rather they can work like a human. They can read news 24 hours and 365 days without stopping or getting tired", said the agricultural ministry in a statement while introducing DD Kisan's new look and new style.

Shows

* 2021 - Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahi written by Tanveer Alam * 2015 - Wah Chaudhary Directed by Vierendrra Lalit and produced by JV Manisha Bajaj and Tarsem Antil (Harikrit Films)

References

External links

Alternate Of DD Kisan Official websiteDD INDIA Programme Schedule
Doordarshan Television channels and stations established in 2015 Direct broadcast satellite services Indian direct broadcast satellite services Agriculture in India Television stations in New Delhi 2015 establishments in Uttar Pradesh Modi administration initiatives Agricultural television stations {{India-tv-station-stub