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Smart Governance SmartAgri ragi, maize, rice and cotton, among others. The increase in yield ranged from 10% to 30% across crops. Farmers who sowed in the first week of June got meager yields due to a long dry spell in August; while registered farmers who sowed in the last week of June and the first week of July and followed advisor