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Raven Industries launches ‘Integrated Dispatch Program’ for Ag retailers
Raven Industries, Inc. announced the release of Dispatch Pro™. This comprehensive program provides ag retailers and enterprise farms with a fast and flexible solution for all dispatching tasks. Dispatch Pro extends Raven’s Connected Workflow™ so users can track their fleets, make data-dri...Read more
WayBeyond launches Data Studio to access real-time data for farmers
Tech innovator WayBeyond is taking on Microsoft's Power BI and Excel products to give growers an alternative solution for integrating all their business data into one digital platform. Digital platform FarmRoad offers agricultural farmers Data Studio, an alternative to spreadsheets and other generic products. Da...Read more
Syngenta launches web based service that reveals locations of yellow rust
Syngenta UK has launched a new web-based service to help UK wheat growers and agronomists stay a step ahead of unpredictable yellow rust outbreaks. Rust Locator 2021 – available at www.syngenta.co.uk/rust-locator-2021 – uses an interactive map to record the locations of yellow rust infections, a...Read more
Stellapps partners with IPPB to digitize the dairy milk procurement value chain
Leading dairy-tech start up, Stellapps announced it has signed an agreement with India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) to digitize the dairy milk procurement value chain and promote banking facilities at milk collection centres. As part of the memorandum of understanding, a pilot project has bee...Read more
Nokia and Vi launches ‘Smart Agriculture solution’ in India
Nokia and Vodafone India Foundation have announced deploying a Smart Agriculture solution that aims to improve the productivity of farmers in India. Nokia and Vodafone India Foundation have launched a pilot project in 100 locations in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The project will benefit over 50,...Read more
SLCM to introduce AI-based mobile app to assess crop quality
Sohan Lal Commodity Management Pvt Ltd (SLCM), a post-harvest crop management solutions provider in India has developed an AI-based mobile app to provide a quality assessment of a crop within a minute with up to 90 per cent accuracy. The app aims at improving the fidelity of commodity quality checks a...Read more
Farmonaut, Godrej Agrovet to map over 15000 farmer fields
Farmonaut, a satellite-based crop health monitoring start-up with headquarters in Bangalore (India), has recently announced its partnership with Godrej Agrovet to help it map over 15000 farmer fields and capture farm-level data for these fields. According to the spokesperson, Godrej has already mapped over 2...Read more
APEDA upgrades GrapeNet to ensure secure, cost effective interface in exports value chain
In a bid to ensure cyber security protection for its traceability initiative, APEDA has adopted next generation Blockchain and Cloud migration enabled GrapeNet System which would ensure a secured, scalable and cost effective interface for all the stakeholders in the exports value chain. The GrapeNet is a web base...Read more
Stellapps, Paras jointly launch 'mooPay' FinTech solution for dairy farmers
As part of its value added embedded fintech services program for dairies and dairy farmers, the leading dairy-tech startup and World Economic Forum’s technology pioneer ‘Stellapps’ has launched a first of its kind fully automated Digital Direct Farmers Payment product for Private Dairy Se...Read more
Syngenta, Insilico Medicine partner for rapid development of crop protection solutions
Syngenta Crop Protection is collaborating with artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning company Insilico Medicine to accelerate the invention and development of new, more effective crop protection solutions that protect crops from diseases, weeds and pests, while also protecting ecosystems. By bringing new s...Read more
Ag Ministry launches seed traceability app
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Panchayat Raj and Food Processing Industries Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched the seed traceability mobile app, which will be able to identify the real seed. The Union Minister said that information about real seeds will be available through the mobi...Read more
Solinftec, IBM collaborate to raise agricultural digitisation standards
IBM and Solinftec, the market-leading agricultural platform, are bringing new precision solutions to agriculture worldwide. IBM's unparalleled climate-based insights are now being combined with Solinftec's sophisticated algorithms and artificial intelligence to provide real-time decision-making solutions for...Read more