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Agriculture Industry
Sowing future growth: Agri transformation is next growth frontier for entrepreneurshipedit
Financial Express – Online
The technological milieu, policy environment and evolving entrepreneurship present an opportunity for a productive shift in Indian agriculture, a shift that incorporates indigenous farmer knowledge, optimises the value chain leveraging technological efficiencies and also ensures equitable access to markets for each and every farmer.
The shape of India’s high growth sectors has been predicated on an entrepreneurial mindset and innovative ideas. This has been a feature of the transition towards the growth of the information technology and telecommunications sectors in the 1990s and 2000s and is underway in the clean energy and fintech sector. Agriculture is the next frontier where the combination of escalating private sector-led entrepreneurship, transformative technology and favourable policies will ensure a ...
Technology in Agriculture
Technology is Transforming India’s Agricultural Sectoredit
Borgen Magazine – Online
India currently ranks fourth in the world in agricultural production and is the world’s largest producer of wheat. The country endured years of mostly preventable famines as the nation suffocated while at the hands of an oppressive British Regime. During those unprecedented times, food shortages caused death, debt and decimated farmlands that left India in severe poverty. Since the 1960s, it has worked toward focusing on self-reliance of food sufficiency and lowering its dependence on other countries. In 1965, the country embraced the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, and other progressive advancements followed. This is how technology transformed India’s agricultural sector.
CDC Group invests in agri-tech startup Ergosedit
VCCircle – Online
Agri-tech startup Ergos Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs 22.5 crore ($3 million) from UK-based CDC Group Plc.
With this, Ergos has closed its Series A funding round at Rs 81 crore, said multiple media reports citing the startup’s co-founder and CEO Kishor Jha.
VCCircle had reported in October last year that CDC was set to invest in Ergos.
In March last year, Ergos had raised Rs 35 crore from Aavishkaar Capital, the impact investment arm of the Aavishkaar Group. Subsequently, it had raised Rs 23 crore from venture capital fund Chiratae Ventures.
Ergos, which was founded by Jha and Praveen Kumar in 2010, has been building a “grain bank” model aimed at small and marginal farmers in India.
Nasscom, T-AIM challenge scouts for AI-based solutions for agricultureedit
The Hindu – Online
A release from Nasscom on Friday said the contest, initiated with an intent of sourcing best in class AI solutions in agritech, is open for start-ups, companies and institutions operating within India.
A challenge called Innovation Factory to identify innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for agriculture has been launched by IT industry
AGRI-TECH START-UPS ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FARMINGedit
Analystics Insights – Online
The agriculture and farming sector is one of the oldest sectors in the world. Humanity has come a long way over the millennia in how we farm and grow crops with the introduction of various technologies. As the world population continues to grow and land becomes scarcer, people need to get more creative and become more efficient about how we farm, using less land to produce more crops and increasing the productivity and yield of those farmed acres.
Agriculture is a USD 5 trillion industry globally, and now the industry is turning to digital technologies, so market players, including agri-tech start-ups can leverage next generation technology like data digitisation and data platforms, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), ...
Agritech Launch: Agdhi Introduces Vision Based Intelligence in Agricultureedit
The Tech Panda – Online
Agdhi, an agritech startup based in Bengaluru has introduced vision enabled AI-based technology in agriculture. It has launched Machine Learning and computer vision techniques to detect defects in seeds and crops, thus enabling the farming community to get quality seeds and crops. The results arrive in seconds. The aim is to bring technology disruption in seed testing, seed sampling, and crop yield, which is the need of the hour.
“Today, India is seeing a huge disruption in agriculture through technology. Agriculture, which is both a major industry and foundation of the economy, is looking for innovative approaches in protecting and improving crop yield. With this aim, we plan to introduce next-generation electronics products optimized for ...
Stubble Burning
Pact signed to generate biofuel from crop residueedit
The Tribune – Online
To address the issue of stubble burning and increase the income of farmers, the Kaithal administration has signed an MoU with Delhi-based Gramin Vikas Trust and Growdiesel Climate Care Council, an NGO, to generate biofuel from crop residue as well as other waste.
The project is being undertaken as a part of the Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates (CMGGA) district’s programmes to save the environment and increase the income of farmers.
The MoU was signed among Deputy Commissioner Sujan Singh and the CEOs of Gramn Vikas Trust and Growdiesel at the Mini-Secretariat today. “It will be the first-of-its-kind project across the state,” the DC claimed.
Potatoes From Paddy: Odisha Farmer’s Idea Saves 80% Water, Prevents Stubble Burningedit
The Better India – Online
Dark plumes of smoke engulfed Dilip Baral’s wide paddy fields in Odisha’s Resinga village for nearly two decades. Like the majority of the farmers in the country, Dilip too would burn the agricultural waste after harvesting his rice crop.
Since it was the fastest method to clear the land and begin another sowing cycle, the 52-year-old didn’t mind the air pollution it caused. It was either spending thousands of rupees to clear the fields or compromise on his health for a day or two.
However, things changed when the International Potato Centre approached a couple of veteran farmers like him in the village to introduce a paddy straw-based technique of growing potatoes.
Surprised at first ...