In one of our previous blogs — “Kisan Talks — Knowing the Indian Farmer”, we talked about how a large proportion of modern day farmers have started utilising technology and particularly smartphones in making informed decisions about their cultivation practices. To cater to this progressive mindset of farmers, a challenging…

In the previous article, we published about the implementation of our Kisan App — GramworkX Crop Management. We discussed in deep, on how water management works and how interventions can be made via technologies that provide data-based decision support to farmers. The GramworkX solution helps in quantifying and providing analytical…

Overview and background: The problem statement Water and weather play a key role in the yields of the crop, yet there is very little data support provided to farmers to plan their cultivation and irrigation according to these parameters. …

Farmer (Kisan) Talks and Survey We have been working with farmers for the past 6 months in the Maharashtra, Andhra and Telangana region of India to understand the ground realities, their pain points, and their expectations from agri-tech companies. We decided to conduct a survey, and also video interview a…

An overview of AI and ML applications in the field of agriculture The world’s population is expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, boosting agricultural demand. This is however challenged by the loss of biodiversity, spread of pests and diseases of plants and animals, and most importantly, the…

Technology and innovation are critical to agriculture and farming, especially now then ever before as the average amount of arable land available per capita is reducing with the growing world population. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nation predicts that farmers yields have to increase by 50%…

In our January article, we spoke about the agriculture value chain, its challenges and opportunities in India. In this edition, we touch on the various technologies that are being used and developed in the farming stage, leading to precision farming. Precision farming is based on the optimised management of inputs…

World Water Day, held by the UN on 22 March every year since 1993, focuses on the importance of freshwater. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water and taking action to tackle the global water crisis. …

Climate change has the potential to hurt everyone, but one particularly vulnerable group is farmers. Agriculture, especially in India, depends on favourable weather conditions; hence climate change-induced temperature rises can significantly hurt farm productivity. By 2050, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) estimates that demand for food will increase over…