Cropin unveils Sage, the first real-time Gen AI agri-intelligence platform

New Delhi: Bengaluru’s Cropin Technology has launched Sage, the world’s first real-time agri-intelligence platform powered by Google Gemini. Sage transforms agricultural landscapes into detailed grid-based maps with options of 3×3 meters, 10×10 meters, or 5×5 kilometers.

This platform provides precise data and intelligence, enabling informed decisions on cultivation practices, crop management, irrigation, climate, and soil for CPG companies, seed producers, food processors, multilateral organizations, financial institutions, and governments.

By integrating Sage, Cropin Cloud empowers agri-food businesses to secure their production and supply chains against future uncertainties.

Cropin’s innovation integrates cutting-edge technologies, including Generative AI, multi-layered global climate data, a global crop knowledge graph, earth observation data, and advanced crop models. This combination significantly advances precision and sustainable agriculture by optimizing crop production planning. Sage not only analyzes historical agricultural data but also utilizes advanced AI tools to forecast future yields. This ability to identify optimal locations and conditions for crop growth on a global scale aims to build a robust and resilient food system. Initially, Cropin’s enterprise customers can deploy Sage across various regions, offering intelligence on 13 key crops such as wheat, rice, potato, and maize, which constitute nearly 80% of global food demand. Cropin plans a phased global rollout of Sage, aligning with enterprise customer needs and market demand.

Built on Google Cloud, Cropin Sage is an intuitive, visually rich platform designed to handle the vast and complex agricultural landscape, which covers 4.8 billion hectares worldwide. Factors such as weather, soil quality, water availability, socio-political conditions, and farmer practices make digitizing agriculture challenging. Cropin has spent a decade developing its global crop knowledge graph to manage these complex datasheets effectively.

Sage uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to scale operations in real-time, processing enormous data volumes efficiently. It also employs the Gemini Flash 1.5 model, converting user queries into SQL queries to deliver user-friendly, grid-based data on a visually appealing platform. This data is processed into various grid sizes and aggregated at different temporal frequencies, including yearly, seasonal, monthly, weekly, and daily, based on customer requirements.

Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO of Cropin, stated, “Cropin Sage redefines the landscape of agricultural intelligence, becoming an indispensable tool for navigating uncertainty and championing climate-smart agriculture. By ‘gridifying’ land parcels with proprietary algorithms and integrating layered insights, Sage forecasts crop futures using historical data and the impacts of changing climate and weather on an unprecedented scale. This empowers informed decision-making, securing both business interests and the global food supply chain. Sage is a testament to Cropin’s relentless dedication to transforming global food systems with state-of-the-art AI solutions.”