Top 6 AgriTech startups revolutionizing food value chain

New Delhi: AgriTech in India has become a flourishing industry with multiple companies deploying technologies like data analytics, machine learning, and satellite imaging, among others, to help farmers maximize their output. The usage of outdated machinery, poor infrastructure, and farmers’ inability to easily access a larger range of markets are just a few of the issues plaguing India’s agriculture sector. Farmers only make modest earnings from crop sales. The more urgent issues are proper infrastructure and supply chain management.

As a result of advancement in technology and digitization, numerous startups are not only disrupting and revolutionizing the Indian agriculture ecosystem but also paving the way to smart and simple farming.

Let’s take a peek at a few start-ups which are empowering farmers of India.

Dehaat – Founded in 2012, DeHaat offers agricultural services like access to agricultural inputs like seeds and fertilizers at affordable prices, personalized assistance, soil testing, weather reports, micro-finance, and insurance. DeHaat has raised $19.3 million to help Indian farmers.

AgNext – Established in 2016 by Mr Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, CEO & Founder, AgNext aims to facilitate trust and transparency in food value chains. By using deep-tech solutions in the agriculture sector to solve persisting legacy issues, AgNext aims to facilitate trust and transparency in food value chains. Working in Deep technology, AgNext under Taranjeet’s leadership has pioneered computer vision, spectral and IoT based AI technologies, which today are employed at multiple transaction points enabling transparent and profitable trade in agriculture and food value chains.

Aquaconnect – Founded by Mr. Rajamanohar Somasundaram, Aquaconnect is a technology driven full-stack aquaculture inputs and outputs platform with embedded fintech, supported by a phygital distribution network. Aquaconnect provides data-driven farm advisory and marketplace solutions to fish and shrimp farmers through artificial intelligence and satellite remote sensing technologies. Its eyes in the sky and boots on the ground model enables farmers access to formal credit.

CropIn – Founded in 2010, CropIn provides a one-stop SaaS-based solutions platform enabling agribusinesses to increase efficiency, productivity and sustainability. Its platform offers real-time weather updates, ability to manage farm activities, and predicts crop yields to minimize risk and yield better produce.

Unnati – Unnati, conceptualized and co-founded by Mr Amit Sinha & Mr Ashok Prasad, is a fintech based Agri platform which aims to minimize the risks in farming and ensure much-needed transparency in the farming business. Unnati’s founders recognised the difficulties farmers experience as a result of farming’s lack of predictability and regular access to production inputs and information. Digital technology has the potential to play a key role and deliver immediate answers in this situation.

Their objective to connect farmers to a single digital platform that supports farm entrepreneurship has been their driving force, resulting in the development of a complete ecosystem for farm entrepreneurs. From Unnati financial services to crop-specific consultancy, the brand works with farmers at every stage of the farming life cycle to ensure a sustainable future.

Agribazaar – Founded in 2016, the idea behind AgriBazaar is to deliver tech-enabled future-ready solutions to the farming community in a frictionless manner and revolutionize the way post-harvest management services are processed across the country. It is this vision that empowered AgriBazaar to facilitate INR 9000 crore (GMV) worth of transactions since its inception, making it one of India’s largest online agri-trading marketplace.