National Farmers’ Day: Top 5 agritech startups that empowered Farmer’s with their unique services in 2022

Agritech in India has become a booming field with numerous startups working towards India’s next green revolution. Agritech startups are trying to address daunting challenges faced by farmers by implementing emerging technologies like AI, data analytics, and IoT and helping them increase productivity and reap better yields. Let’s look at the top 5 agritech startups in India that revolutionized the sector completely in 2022 –

1. Crofarm – Gurgaon based Crofarm is a tech-driven agritech startup that aims to reduce agricultural waste by optimizing supply chain networks. It is an F2B or Farm to Business venture with over ten thousand farmers on its network. The foremost aim of the startup is to change the way businesses procure their produce. Crofarm is building a Demand driven, Zero wastage and Tech Enabled supply chain to bring fresh to India. Their motto is all about delivering best quality agri-produce and finding a perfect balance between demand and supply.

2. AgroStar – Founded in 2013 by brother duo Shardul and Sitanshu Sheth. This Pune-based agritech startup helps farmers by offering advice from experts on how to manage crops and boost yield. It leverages data and technology to solve farmers’ concerns about accessing high quality agri-inputs and bridges the information gap. Currently, the agritech startup serves more than five million farmers across Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.

3. WRMS – Established in the year 2004, Weather Risk Management Services (WRMS), is an agriculture and climate risk management company co-founded by Sonu Agarwal, Anuj Kumbhat and Ashish Agarwal with the goal to empower smallholder farmers and make farming sustainable and profitable. WRMS leverages data, technology and financial innovation to help farmers enhance productivity, gain a secure income, and practice sustainable farming. WRMS flagship app “SecuFarm” is the world’s first smart and sustainable farming solution that provides a guaranteed income to the farmers. It enables farmers to overcome the most difficult agrarian challenges, such as insufficient rainfall, weather attacks, crop diseases, pest attacks, lack of irrigation, acidic soil, low soil nutrients, agrochemical use, and more.

4. Intello Labs – Founded in 2016, Intello Labs offers complete automation in the supply chain management of fresh fruits, vegetables, spices, and nuts and deploys image recognition based tools for the quality assessment of fruits and vegetables. It also makes automated weighing and packing machines for fresh produce. Intello Labs uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to assess the quality of food commodities. They assist farmers, traders, retailers, food service companies, exporters, and others in improving customer satisfaction and reducing losses.

5. Gobasco: This AgriTech startup leverages real-time data analytics on data-streams coming from multiple sources across the country and is backed by AI-optimised automated pipelines to improve and increase the efficiency of the agricultural supply chain. The startup’s data-driven online agri-marketplace gives the best prices for both the producers and buyers at their fingertips. Some of its solutions include transaction discovery, procurement optimisation and optimising transportation with real-time data.