Archives for AgriTech

25 May

How RMSI Cropalytics Leverages AI To Predict Crop Yield

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India has a diverse agricultural landscape with a land area of 159.7 million hectares. Soil fertility, crop yields and irrigation methods vary from one region to another. This diversity, along with excessive dependence on monsoons, small farm sizes, and broken supply chains, has made crop yield prediction extremely difficult. This is where technology can play…

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25 May

How RMSI Cropalytics Leverages AI To Predict Crop Yield

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India has a diverse agricultural landscape with a land area of 159.7 million hectares. Soil fertility, crop yields and irrigation methods vary from one region to another. This diversity, along with excessive dependence on monsoons, small farm sizes, and broken supply chains, has made crop yield prediction extremely difficult. This is where technology can play…

The post How RMSI Cropalytics Leverages AI To Predict Crop Yield appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.

11 Feb

How Ninjacart Utilises AI: A Chat With CEO Thirukumaran Nagarajan

Launched in 2015, Ninjacart has now transitioned into one of the largest B2B fresh produce supply chains in India.  Driven by the vision to ‘change the way India consumes food’, Ninjacart has expanded its footprint to 11 major cities across India. Analytics India Magazine caught up with Thirukumaran Nagarajan, co-founder and CEO of Ninjacart, to…

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26 Sep

5 Tech Startups In India Working to Weed Out Middlemen From Agriculture Supply Chain

Recently, Rajya Sabha passed two farm bills — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 along with the Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020. One of the features of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 is that it aims to end the monopoly of…

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07 Jun

The Role AI & Data Analytics Can Play In Tackling Farmers’ Distress

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While AI and data analytics has seen rapid adoption in agriculture, a bulk of these have been tangential and are relegated to supply chain management and not necessarily in-field farming techniques. This is because the age-old practice of agriculture has typically been governed by intuition rather than cold hard facts, but this is beginning to…

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08 Apr

Agri Analytics Startup DeHaat Raises $12 Million In A Sequoia-Led Funding

DeHaat, an Agritech platform, has recently raised $12 million, which is approximately ₹83 crore in a Series A funding led by Sequoia India. The funding was also in participation with FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank; alongside the existing investors, Omnivore and AgFunder have also participated in this round. DeHaat, an agri-tech platform, helps farmers…

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05 Dec

How AI-Empowered Smart Farmers Can Help India Reach The $27 Billion-Mark By 2020

The agricultural sector in India may only account for just 18% of India’s gross domestic product, but it holds about 50% of India’s employment generation. With over 70% of the country’s population residing in rural areas, the sector has always been considered as the backbone of Indian economy. Despite such data, the sector constantly struggles…

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