SeeTree teams up with India’s agri-fintech Human Ventures to give sugarcane growers a sugar rush. Using accurate, “live” yield prediction combined with harvest planning tools, SeeTree optimizes harvest timing and mill utilization while Human Ventures unlocks smarter farm financing

While India stands as the global leader in sugar consumption and ranks among the primary sugarcane producers worldwide, yet most of that crop is still managed and financed with limited visibility into what fields will actually yield. SeeTree, the Israeli AI crop-intelligence company and Human Ventures Pvt. Ltd., an Indian agri-fintech company, today announced a partnership to change that.

The collaboration pairs SeeTree’s AI platform — which fuses satellite, drone, weather, and field data into block-level yield forecasts before and throughout the crushing season — with Human Ventures’ data-driven, cluster-based financing model for farmers and rural enterprises. SeeTree delivers a “living forecast” that is updated monthly, with forecast accuracy of 95–99 per cent at the company level and 85–93 per cent at the block level, plus harvest-planning and early-warning tools that match cane supply to mill capacity and reduce cut-to-crush delays. By grounding harvest forecasts in field-level data, the partners aim to help India’s sugarcane growers and mills plan the season, run mills more efficiently, and improve returns.

The combination also addresses a structural challenge in Indian agriculture: access to affordable credit. Reliable, independent yield data can strengthen borrower assessment and help de-risk agricultural lending — connecting better crop intelligence directly to better financing for sugarcane farmers. Under the partnership, SeeTree provides the technology and analytics while Human Ventures brings the platform to growers, farmer groups, mills, and financial partners across the country.

“India decides a huge share of the world’s sugar supply, but most of that crop is still managed without field-level data” said Israel Talpaz, CEO and Co-Founder of SeeTree. “With Human Ventures, we can put accurate yield forecasts in growers’ hands before harvest — and turn that data into better decisions and better access to finance.”

“Sugar Manufacturers don’t need another dashboard; they need an optimization system and timely actionable information they can trust. SeeTree’s platform and capabilities are the most impressive we’ve seen in that field” said Kartik Iyer, Founder and CEO of Human Ventures. “SeeTree’s accuracy in yield estimation and their harvest planning tools drastically increase the ROIs for sugar companies. These are exactly the data points we use to make agricultural lending bankable. Together we can help India’s sugarcane sector plan better, farm more profitably, and finance more fairly.”

The companies plan to launch joint offerings in the coming months, beginning with pilots alongside leading Indian sugar agribusinesses. The partnership was facilitated by the Israel Economic and Trade Mission in India.