BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 11. The private sector
should implement technologies that use artificial intelligence,
Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliament's Science and
Education Committee Fariz Ismailzade said at a public hearing of
the Azerbaijani Parliament Committee on Agricultural Policy on “The
use of artificial intelligence in agriculture: results and
prospects”, Trend
reports.


"In Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Agriculture acts as a customer,
because the ministry's own technological capabilities are not
sufficient to employ engineers and programmers to develop new
applications.


We need to create groups of programmers. We still have a small
gap in this area, which is somewhat underdeveloped in Azerbaijan.
It's true that we have young IT specialists, but I haven't yet seen
an application that can compete with any country in the world,
whether it's startups or other projects. We should pay attention to
this area. We should try to developlocal applications and programs
related to AI in Azerbaijan," he noted.


The MP stated that for this, the private sector, educational
institutions, and state institutions should work together.


"This should be a three-way partnership. State institutions,
perhaps, act as customers, and the private sector develops
products, applications, programs, and new inventions. Scientific
institutions, on the other hand, train personnel for this.







If this three-way partnership takes place and Azerbaijani
private companies and programmers can really develop new products,
we can sell them abroad in the future because the Azerbaijani
market is a fairly small market. If we look at the regional market
- Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East - we
can also sell our applications, our IT products to these countries.
Thus, we can now also engage in export and make some profit from
it.


I would like to draw the Minister of Agriculture’s attention to
the following issue: how can we offer applications and solutions
not only for the Azerbaijani market, but also for the wider
regional market, in order to further develop the IT sector?” he
added.


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