This document describes an initiative called Farmers eKutireAgro that uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to help farmers in India. It aims to address challenges faced by farmers like lack of access to quality seeds, agricultural practices, market information, and financing. The initiative is a partnership between eKutir, a rural management company, and Grameen-Intel Social Business. It provides farmers soil testing, crop advisories, access to quality inputs, and helps connect them to markets. This has led to increased productivity, income, and risk mitigation for farmers. It has also created local entrepreneurship opportunities and employment.
There are many opportunities for Indian entrepreneurs in agribusiness. This presentation relates opportunities to stage of innovation from Patent to Diffusion.
There are many opportunities for Indian entrepreneurs in agribusiness. This presentation relates opportunities to stage of innovation from Patent to Diffusion.
FarmERP helps establish complete control over these important parameters. FarmERP is most comprehensive and advanced ERP software platform which supports business to connect to large number of farmers over scattered geographies.
The Future of Farming: Technology and Farm Contractor Partnershipswilliamshakes1
future of farming is bright, thanks to the integration of technology and the valuable contributions of farm contractor partnerships. By embracing these advancements, farmers can overcome traditional challenges and contribute to a more sustainable and food-secure world.
Artificial intelligence is based on the principle that human intelligence can be defined in a way that a machine can easily mimic it and execute tasks, from the simplest to those that are even more complex. The goals of artificial intelligence include learning, reasoning, and perception.
“We’re at beginning of a golden age of AI. Recent advancements have already led to invention that previously lived in the realm of science fiction – and we have only scratched the surface of what’s possible” – JEFF BEZOS, Amazon CEO
Some examples, vision-recognition systems on self-driving cars, in the recommendation engines that suggest products you might like based on what you bought in the past, speech, and language recognition of the Siri virtual assistant on the Apple iPhone.
AI is making a huge impact in all domains of the industry. Every industry looking to automate certain jobs through the use of intelligent machinery. And a good Agriculture and farming are one of the oldest and most important professions in the world. It plays an important role in the economic sector. Worldwide, agriculture is a $5 trillion industry.
The global population is expected to reach more than nine billion by 2050 which will require an increase in agricultural production by 70% to fulfill the demand. As the world population is increasing due to which land water and resources becoming insufficient to continue the demand-supply chain. So, we need a smarter approach and become more efficient about how we farm and can be most productive
In this presentation, We will cover are challenges faced by farmers by using traditional methods of farming and how Artificial Intelligence is making a revolution in agriculture by replacing traditional methods by using more efficient methods and helping the world to become a better place.
Artificial Intelligence in agriculture not only helping farmers to automate their farming but also shifts to precise cultivation for higher crop yield and better quality while using fewer resources.
Companies involved in improving machine learning or Artificial Intelligence-based products or services like training data for agriculture, drone, and automated machine making will get technological advancement in the future will provide more useful applications to this sector helping the world deal with food production issues for the growing population.
The future of AI in farming largely depends on the adoption of AI solutions. Although some large-scale researches are in progress and some applications are already in the market, yet industry in agriculture is underserved. Moreover, creating predictive solutions to solve a real challenge faced by farmers in farming is still in progress at an early stage.
Building the next generation of farmers
Supporting capacity-development of African Farmer’s Organisations through improved Policies, Technologies and Capabilities
Workshop , 6-7 November 2018, Brussels
Insights Success present to you "The Best of 5 Recommended Agritech Companies", that are transforming the agriculture industry through their innovative & dedicated endeavors.
Presentation delivered by Deepak Pareek, CEO & Founder, MyCrop at BiharAgriTech Conference held on 16th December 2017 at Patna. The world is getting larger with the population growing by nearly 3 more people every second, which is 240,000 people a day. By 2025, the global population will reach 8 billion people and 9.6 billion by 2050. This means within one generation, there will be more people additionally on the planet than there were at the beginning of the
20th century. Feeding the growing world population poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. By 2050, food production must increase by 70% to keep pace.
Achieving the level of agricultural productivity necessary to meet the immensely risen world demand for food, fiber, and fuel by 2050 will be a challenge. Meeting this challenge is made even more daunting by a number of stringent constraints including environmental challenges and need to make benefits of development reach all. While Precision Agriculture has been in circulation for more than few decades but has been confined to the developed and the rich due to prohibitive cost and marginal value it brought to the table. Further complexity of the concept made it difficult or repulsive to smallholder farmers the core of agriculture ecosystem in developing the world.
Big Data technologies have suddenly changed this equation. The impact is so profound that Precision Agriculture which seemed to be the muse of the elite has suddenly become a rage for the underserved. This presentation takes you through a complete set of reasons and facts which are driving Big Data revolution in AgTech and the resulting adoption of Precision Agriculture by Smallholder farmers.
FarmERP helps establish complete control over these important parameters. FarmERP is most comprehensive and advanced ERP software platform which supports business to connect to large number of farmers over scattered geographies.
The Future of Farming: Technology and Farm Contractor Partnershipswilliamshakes1
future of farming is bright, thanks to the integration of technology and the valuable contributions of farm contractor partnerships. By embracing these advancements, farmers can overcome traditional challenges and contribute to a more sustainable and food-secure world.
Artificial intelligence is based on the principle that human intelligence can be defined in a way that a machine can easily mimic it and execute tasks, from the simplest to those that are even more complex. The goals of artificial intelligence include learning, reasoning, and perception.
“We’re at beginning of a golden age of AI. Recent advancements have already led to invention that previously lived in the realm of science fiction – and we have only scratched the surface of what’s possible” – JEFF BEZOS, Amazon CEO
Some examples, vision-recognition systems on self-driving cars, in the recommendation engines that suggest products you might like based on what you bought in the past, speech, and language recognition of the Siri virtual assistant on the Apple iPhone.
AI is making a huge impact in all domains of the industry. Every industry looking to automate certain jobs through the use of intelligent machinery. And a good Agriculture and farming are one of the oldest and most important professions in the world. It plays an important role in the economic sector. Worldwide, agriculture is a $5 trillion industry.
The global population is expected to reach more than nine billion by 2050 which will require an increase in agricultural production by 70% to fulfill the demand. As the world population is increasing due to which land water and resources becoming insufficient to continue the demand-supply chain. So, we need a smarter approach and become more efficient about how we farm and can be most productive
In this presentation, We will cover are challenges faced by farmers by using traditional methods of farming and how Artificial Intelligence is making a revolution in agriculture by replacing traditional methods by using more efficient methods and helping the world to become a better place.
Artificial Intelligence in agriculture not only helping farmers to automate their farming but also shifts to precise cultivation for higher crop yield and better quality while using fewer resources.
Companies involved in improving machine learning or Artificial Intelligence-based products or services like training data for agriculture, drone, and automated machine making will get technological advancement in the future will provide more useful applications to this sector helping the world deal with food production issues for the growing population.
The future of AI in farming largely depends on the adoption of AI solutions. Although some large-scale researches are in progress and some applications are already in the market, yet industry in agriculture is underserved. Moreover, creating predictive solutions to solve a real challenge faced by farmers in farming is still in progress at an early stage.
Building the next generation of farmers
Supporting capacity-development of African Farmer’s Organisations through improved Policies, Technologies and Capabilities
Workshop , 6-7 November 2018, Brussels
Insights Success present to you "The Best of 5 Recommended Agritech Companies", that are transforming the agriculture industry through their innovative & dedicated endeavors.
Presentation delivered by Deepak Pareek, CEO & Founder, MyCrop at BiharAgriTech Conference held on 16th December 2017 at Patna. The world is getting larger with the population growing by nearly 3 more people every second, which is 240,000 people a day. By 2025, the global population will reach 8 billion people and 9.6 billion by 2050. This means within one generation, there will be more people additionally on the planet than there were at the beginning of the
20th century. Feeding the growing world population poses an unprecedented challenge to human ingenuity. By 2050, food production must increase by 70% to keep pace.
Achieving the level of agricultural productivity necessary to meet the immensely risen world demand for food, fiber, and fuel by 2050 will be a challenge. Meeting this challenge is made even more daunting by a number of stringent constraints including environmental challenges and need to make benefits of development reach all. While Precision Agriculture has been in circulation for more than few decades but has been confined to the developed and the rich due to prohibitive cost and marginal value it brought to the table. Further complexity of the concept made it difficult or repulsive to smallholder farmers the core of agriculture ecosystem in developing the world.
Big Data technologies have suddenly changed this equation. The impact is so profound that Precision Agriculture which seemed to be the muse of the elite has suddenly become a rage for the underserved. This presentation takes you through a complete set of reasons and facts which are driving Big Data revolution in AgTech and the resulting adoption of Precision Agriculture by Smallholder farmers.
1. Creating globally scalable and sustainable social businesses Targeting massive socio-economic transformation at the Base of the Pyramid Through effective use of ICT Farmers eKutireAgro is an initiative jointly conceptualized and executed by eKutir and Grameen-Intel Social Business
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3. Who we are? eKutir is a Rural Management Services Company with a focus on evolving an appropriate knowledge management system in rural areas. eKutir is a Rural Social Enterprise that is creating globally scalable and sustainable social businesses that target massive socio-economic transformations through effective use of ICT. eKutir’s focus is to create rural growth engines for sustainable livelihoods and commerce especially in areas like agriculture and village crafts, which constitute the bulk of vocations. Head-quartered in Bhubaneswar, Orissa., eKutir has branch offices & experiment stations in Bangalore and Chennai, and rural extension service centres in 10 locations spread out in 3 districts of Orissa. Farmers eKutireAgro is an initiative jointly conceptualized and executed by eKutir and Grameen-Intel Social Business
4. Farmers eKutir: What we do? ENTREPRENEUR FARMER Farmer discusses problems, needs, land status, income & expense details with the Entrepreneur Entrepreneur enters static and dynamic data into eAgro system Genuine Seed Supplier Genuine Seed Supplier FARMER Genuine Fertilizer Supplier eKutir routes request to relevant group Genuine Pesticide Supplier Agriculture Advisors Micro Financer (Credit, Ins.) Machinery Labour
5. How IT is helping the Farmer in our different IT interventions Income Productivity sustainability
6. productivity Information on available inputs/buying on line from the company Risk reducing inputs Cost/benefit Access to the experts on line Nutrient management yield Crop damage Timely on line advisory from experts IPM Pest management Irrigation demand Weekly weather report from the web Weather information information Proper risk averted decision making
7. income Opportunity for Better realization Market information live Market price information Web based information Supply demand information Spreading sells Better realization Participation in the Commodity trading Online participation
8. How Grameen-Intel-eKutir Initiatives help Farmer Profile Intervention Then Now I can keep and record my activities through ehub I do not know /no record what I am doing No objective record keeping for my decision It helps me in proper decision making thereby reducing my risk No heresay but decision objectively Result Proper Record keeping is possible through IT which is the first step towards reducing risk at the farmer level
9. SOIL TESTING &Nutrient management through IT Intervention -II Now Then I am doing my soil testing and getting the report and general recommendation instantly I know that soil testing is important but I have not done as there is no facility It takes long time to test and no advisory given I am getting crop specific nutrient use advisory I do not get crop specific advisory continuously I am getting the quantity & cost of nutrient instantly My crop productivity is not taking place but I can not help it Soil health is maintained & productivity ensured
10. Agri clinic & Agri advisory Intervention-III Now Then I do not get any advise from any experts on any problems at the time of growing of crops I get all clinical advisory instantly can save my crops Unnecessary cost avoiding for proper advisory My crop gets damaged because of diseases/pesticides attack Receiving right advisory at the right time instantly Desperation application destroys my crop No information on anything related to crop like seed/fert/credit/fm/insurance/market etc
11. Entrepreneurship IT model Intervention-IV SF seed SF SF SF SF SF fertilizer SF e hub SF Service providers agriclinic SF SF SF Agri exp erts SF SF SF credit SF SF SF SF market Aggregating needs SF SF
12. Soil Testing & Nutrient Management Processes Agronomy Exp-1 Soil Exp Exp-2 E Agro Hub Bio Adv Exp-3 Chemical Adv Exp-4 Fert Distributors Fert Distributors Fert Distributors
13. Financial Impact Financial Impact of eKutir's Intervention on a Vegetable Farmer Production increased by 15%Sales increased by 122%Net Cash Flow increased by 203%!! 105% increase in Seed Cost due to guaranteed quality seed at higher price resulting in better germination rate and better yield 17% reduction in Fertilizer Cost due to the advantage of lower eKutir bulk rate with the benefit passed onto farmer 71% reduction in Labour Cost due to minimal labour used mainly for general upkeep, not for pests/diseases (better disease and pest resistant seeds and appropriate use of fertilizer and pesticides in right quantity) 29% reduction in Pesticide Cost due to minimal expense towards pesticides Advice on changed crop pattern & best seed type; type of fertilizer, the amount and procedure of application, and general advice on crop maintenance Informed Farmer increased his costs by 41%
14. ICT Helping the Small Farmer Improve his Income thru Better Inputs and Practices Charana Sasmal is a subsistence farmer growing vegetables on his 3 acre holding in Dihagaon, Orissa about 180 km from the capital city. His income is barely enough to support his family of 6, and keeps him continually in a spiraling debt. The low quality and high cost of inputs (seeds, fertilizer, pesticides) and lack of knowledge of their application, puts Charana’s whole operation and family livelihood at risk. He is even contemplating desparate alternatives including quitting farming and finding some employment in the city, but doesn’t know the perils of that! Through the ekutir & Grameen-Intel eAgro farmer livelihoods improvement initiative, Charana was able to get the best quality seeds directly from the seeds major, with a 80% germination guarantee as opposed to < 20% earlier, along with access to best cultivation practices (land preparation, irrigation, right qty/type of nutrient & pest/disease mitigants) at his village itself. Though he paid a higher cost for this seed (Rs 9225 vs Rs 4500), the higher quality of “hardened” seed & better practices ensured reduced expenses on fertilizers, pesticides, labour (with better systems in place), while increasing his sales by 122%, and net income by over 420%. As a result, he was able to generate a surplus of Rs 15,665 (vs Rs 3,700 earlier), thru which he repaid his debt, and the rest used for his families well-being (better food, medicine, clothes, bicycle…) & for providing the seed finance (Rs 2300) for the next crop- thereby, removing him once-and-for-all from the dependency on the unscrupulous money lender. He is now confident enough to seek more land to expand his farm size & augment his income further!
15. Impact of e-Agro Project on various stakeholders Farmers Community Entrepreneurs Farmers Input Supplier Other StakeHolders (experts, markets, processing..) October 27, 2010 15
16. Impact on the Farmers Community ICT as a magnet in pooling Farmers together. Gradual Realization that ICT can play a role for service delivery and instant information reach. Better productivity and risk management Forming FIG and attending the meeting Participatory & democratic Bringing together the community & info sharing Aggregation possibilities and advantages Deciding the cost of services/Registration fees. Talking about their needs & planning / prioritizing the requirement. e-Hub as an epicenter of all Farmers activities. A sense of ownership & participation – 1st indicator of sustainability Planned approach to improve the livelihood prospects & community life October 27, 2010 16
20. Impact on Farmers (Registered) Individualized Portfolio management planned approach Right information to get right decision. Availability of good quality seeds/ at the right time and at a right price. Demand for availing inputs (seeds) increased from May to September. ICT intervention has increased their Productivity and Income. Getting better advisory. Increasing queries and different kind of queries. Assess current crop varieties , and use as basis to recommend appropriate ways to get better crop varieties / rotation / yields. Exotic vegetable farmers club has been formed dealing in higher margin crops. Ability to detect and mitigate disasters of diseases and pests (next slide) Aggregation of needs (eg. lower costs of inputs, mechvslabour) Farm Mechanization increased their margin. Farmer able to concentrate on his core competence, leaving the hassles to be overcome (at a reduced cost) by experts and thereby generate increased income, decreased dependence on exp credit, higher risk taking capacity October 27, 2010 18
21. Impact on the input supplier (Seed) Connecting the producer to the consumer: Transparency in seed supply. No middleman involved. Spurious seeds avoided. Better yield potentially Credibility of the company improved. Direct feedback from the farmers –acts as a critical input for marketing strategy. Totally involved in e-Agro project – sensitizing the farmers and entrepreneur to best practices A major achievement: as this itself can address issues of food scarcity/security October 27, 2010 19
22. Details of Seed Companies doing business with eKutir Seminies Bioseed Nunhems Nodel Agrotech Indian Seeds Contact list October 27, 2010 20
23. Highlights of the Study undertaken by KSRM (KIIT School of Rural Management) ICT plays an important role for the farmer. FIG is the right way for ensuring participation of the farmer. Entrepreneur is the critical link. Farmers are benefitted because of good quality of seeds and advisory. Market information and weather information helps the farmer in decision making. Scaling up of the e-Agro activities in other areas. October 27, 2010 21
24. Reaction from other Stakeholders NABARD- wants to enlarge/replicate. Suggesting integration with Micro Credit and Water Management Interested in taking biz to Farmers Club Programme (>2000 in Orissa, >60k in India) OUAT- Very enthusiastic=>LAB to LAND in reality State Govt.-Keen to participate in the project Input Supplier- Excited about the project –wants to join and take it forward Interest from stakeholders to replicate in other states October 27, 2010 22
The eAgro initiative conducted jointly by eKutir and Grameen-Intel Social business is focused on the improvement of lives and livelihoods of the rural poor who are of mostly agrarian background.Our efforts this far have been to serve the common most critically felt and unfelt needs of the small farmers that are stumbling blocks to his progress and productivity (understanding & knowing the quality of their main asset- their land, its nutrient status, and the capacity to grow the right crop based on the nutrient status as well as from a commercial viability angle, mapping it to and providing access to appropriate genuine guaranteed quality inputs: seeds, fertilizers, availability of qualified advice on best cultivation and risk mitigating (for disease/pest/climate change/financial) practices, market discovery and market connects for transacting at best terms.Lots of pockets of knowledge…but no integrated way of putting this to action…ie. action from the farmers perspective: not from the Agro univ., or the supplier, or the middle-man or the lenderHis need: This knowledge access should be cost-effective, reliable, convenient, meet his need, be available at his village
Knowledge repository is created and the answaer can be retrived from the data base.
1.Soil Sample Collected by the Farmer in the presence of a tarined manpower/ entrepreneur2.Soil test is done by the entrepreneur at the hub soil test kit to be purchased by the entrepreneur3.Soil Test Report entered in the electronic form and send to the expert for advisory on the soil fertility status4.Advisory is sent to the Bio and Chemical fertiliser experts for calculating the doses and recommending the application practises5.Report along with all the advisory is given to the Farmer for application or precise implementation6.The requirement of fertiliser is being given to the Farmer by procuring it from the distributors
![Challenges for Farmer Fragmented and subsistence existence Main asset-Land: quality, nutrient status, capacity to grow right crop & mkt? Unknown! Right quality “guaranteed” seed & nutrients ,[object Object],Risk mitigation: finance, pests, diseases, climate Labour shortage vs unviable mechanization Access to market info and transacting at terms suitable to him Post harvest logistics of Storage, Processing & Transport Lots of pockets of knowledge…but no integrated way of putting this to action… ie. Actionable knowledge from the farmers perspective: not from that of the Agro univ., or the supplier, or the middle-man or the money lender Farmer’s need: This knowledge access should be cost-effective, reliable, convenient, meet his specific need, be available at his village & sustainable](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)