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In December 2022, on the Earthshot Prize stage in Boston, Prince William announced a winner that made India sit up. A startup from Telangana called Kheyti, awarded one million pounds for an invention with the humblest possible name. A greenhouse in a box. The story behind it is a masterclass in how to build for real people. Before writing a single business plan, founders Kaushik Kappagantulu, Sathya Raghu, Ayush Sharma and Saumya Sahay spent six months travelling across India, talking to close to 1,000 farmers. What they heard repeatedly was the sound of climate change hitting the smallest farms hardest. Unpredictable rain, scorching heatwaves, pest attacks worsening with every season. India's roughly 100 million smallholder farmers, among the poorest people on the planet, were absorbing the full force of a crisis they did not create. Kheyti's answer, launched in 2015, was a greenhouse redesigned for exactly these farmers. Modular, simple, and about 90 percent cheaper than a standard greenhouse, sized to fit a fraction of a small plot. The numbers it produced sound like fiction. Crops inside need up to 98 percent less water than those grown outside. Yields rise as much as seven times. Farmer incomes more than double, and Kheyti pairs every unit with training and support so the technology actually works in the field, not just in the brochure. The Earthshot Prize, dubbed the Eco Oscars, put the startup on the world map, and Prince William has even served food grown in a Kheyti greenhouse at a London event. Since the win, Kheyti has grown five times over, working toward a goal of 50,000 farmers with greenhouses in the coming years. Climate change is a giant problem. Kheyti's answer fits in a box, and that is exactly why it works. Save this post and share it with someone who believes Indian innovation can heal the planet. #Kheyti #EarthshotPrize #AgriTech #ClimateAction #StartupStories #IndianBusiness #UntoldStories #DecodingMedia #Farmers #IndiaFacts

Abir Majumder

https://krishiscan.com The Future of Indian Agriculture is Data-Driven. Every season, Indian farmers face billions of rupees in losses due to information asymmetry. ❌ Unknown diseases wipe out fields before help arrives. ❌ Unfair market rates undermine hard-earned harvests. ❌ Unclaimed subsidies leave millions of rupees on the table. KrishiScan is addressing these head-on. By creating a unified digital partner that combines diagnostic vision, market analytics, and a scheme "copilot," they are successfully closing the gap between the farm and the market. This is a prime example of how "Made in India" technology can drive tangible change for our farming community. What other sectors do you think are ripe for this kind of AI-driven transformation? Let’s discuss in the comments! 👇 #FutureOfFarming #AgriTech #AI #DataDriven #Entrepreneurship #KrishiScan

James Martin

Water-Soluble Fertilizers: A Complete PDF Guide Request Sample Copy: https://lnkd.in/dDbfAHdT Water-Soluble Fertilizers (WSF) are nutrient blends that dissolve fully in water and are delivered through fertigation (drip or sprinkler irrigation) or foliar sprays, allowing crops to absorb nutrients quickly and efficiently with minimal waste. This precision improves nutrient-use efficiency and boosts yield per hectare. Key Growth Drivers: Rising cultivation of horticultural and high-value crops, alongside growing use of drip and sprinkler irrigation systems, supported by government policies promoting balanced fertilizer use Increasing farmer interest in precision agriculture, especially as smaller landholdings push growers to maximize output while controlling input costs Continued innovation in fertilizer formulations, including fully soluble NPK blends and chelated micronutrient products that improve crop response Broader adoption of fertigation and foliar feeding techniques, which apply nutrients more accurately and reduce losses compared to traditional soil application A general industry shift away from conventional fertilization toward more targeted, efficient nutrient delivery, particularly in high-value and horticultural farming Expansion of micro-irrigation infrastructure, greenhouse farming, and rising investment in smart agriculture technologies #WaterSolubleFertilizers #Fertigation #PrecisionAgriculture #SmartFarming #NPKFertilizer #DripIrrigation #FoliarSpray #SustainableAgriculture #CropNutrition #Horticulture #MicroIrrigation #AgriTech #NutrientManagement #FarmProductivity #SpecialtyFertilizers

Ernest Kapesa

You found the problem in the field. Now what? You can see the stressed crop. You can photograph the disease. You can fly the drone. You can mark the affected area. But can you tell a farmer exactly how many hectares are affected? Can you turn that finding into training data? Can you give a buyer evidence behind the claim? Can you keep that field intelligence useful beyond the original inspection? That is the problem we are tackling with Rigo Studio. In this walkthrough, I’m showing how agricultural professionals are using Rigo Studio to turn imagery into measurable field data, annotations, vegetation analysis, AI training datasets and evidence that can connect to a Digital Crop Passport. The important part is that Rigo Studio is not just another dashboard for looking at imagery. It is designed to help turn what you observe in the field into data you can measure, export, reuse and verify. And because it runs on your device, you don't need to upload every image to a cloud platform and wait for processing. If you work in agriculture, agronomy, drones, research or agricultural data, this walkthrough is worth watching. Explore Rigo Studio: https://lnkd.in/da4mjcjJ #Agririgo #RigoStudio #AgTech #Agriculture #DigitalAgriculture #PrecisionAgriculture #AfricanAgriculture #AgriculturalData #AIinAgriculture #ComputerVision #DroneTechnology #AgriTech

RippleXity

@RippleXity

🚨 JUST IN: Agritech company Tavor $TAAG is now LIVE on the $XRP Ledger. 🇮🇱 https://t.co/6qhR3kwo48 https://t.co/PbQmpFfUyw

Seth Charles Mkisi 🇹🇿 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 #Gustavo

@Sethcharlemkisi

Happy Sunday, Tanzania AgriTech founders. Consistency isn't about being perfect; it's about showing up even when no one's watching. Keep building. Keep iterating. The systems you create today will be the businesses investors fund tomorrow. Rest. But don't quit.

Trensik

@Trensik_com

$TAAG brings Tavor on-chain: Israeli agritech supplying advanced irrigation automation and water management systems that help growers cut waste and improve yields. Tokenized on the $XRP Ledger. Now Live on Trensik: https://t.co/8Ap0GGxhOq https://t.co/R4ezGwyQy1

Serge Zaka

On enchaîne. Il est maintenant très probable que nous allons vivre l'El-Nino le plus intense depuis le début de son observation sur Terre (et surement depuis des siècles). Les premiers effets se font sentir avec un décrochage total des températures mondiales. Le mois d'août 2026 pourrait être le mois d'août le plus chaud sur Terre depuis le début des mesures. Nous ne sommes qu'à 0.11°C du record absolu mondial de température et 0.01°C du record absolu de la surface des océans. La méditerranée enchaîne les records absolus de température avec une canicule marine qui dure depuis des semaines avec jusqu'à +3 à +6°C d'anomalie. Les derniers relevés montrent qu'avec une moyenne de 28.5°C, la surface de la mer Méditerranée vient de battre son record absolu de température. En d'autres termes, la mer Méditerranée n'a jamais été aussi chaude tous mois confondus. Ce n'est que le début. Nous sommes partis pour 1 an d'incroyables records à l'échelle planétaire.

Hemant Tarar

The Evolution of Agriculture: From Traditional Farming to Modern Agriculture Agriculture has never remained the same. From manually preparing fields and depending heavily on rainfall to using precision irrigation, drones, satellite imagery, AI and data-driven decision-making — agriculture has continuously evolved with technology, science and changing farmer needs. 1. Traditional Agriculture Earlier, farming was largely dependent on: • Human and animal labour • Traditional tools • Local seed varieties • Rainfall and basic irrigation • Farmer experience and inherited knowledge Productivity was highly dependent on weather conditions and manual efforts. 🚜 2. Mechanisation The introduction of tractors, cultivators, seed drills, harvesters and modern farm machinery significantly reduced manual labour. Mechanisation helped farmers: • Cover larger areas in less time • Improve field preparation • Achieve more uniform sowing • Reduce operational dependency on labour • Improve overall farm efficiency 💧 3. Development of Irrigation Agriculture gradually moved from rainfall-dependent farming towards controlled irrigation. Canals, tube wells, sprinklers and drip irrigation allowed farmers to manage water more efficiently. Drip and sprinkler systems particularly helped in: • Improving water-use efficiency • Delivering water closer to the crop root zone • Reducing unnecessary water loss • Supporting fertigation • Improving crop growth under water-limited conditions 🧪 4. Scientific Agriculture The next major development was the shift towards understanding the crop scientifically. Soil testing, nutrient management, improved seed varieties, pest scouting, integrated pest management and scientific crop nutrition made farming more evidence-based. 5. Precision Agriculture Today, technology allows farmers to manage fields with much greater precision. GPS, GIS, drones, satellite imagery, sensors and digital farm records can help identify: • Crop stress • Water stress • Nutrient deficiencies • Pest and disease hotspots • Variability within different parts of a field This creates an important shift: From treating the entire field equally → to managing the field according to its actual requirements. 7. The Future — Sustainable & Regenerative Agriculture The future of agriculture cannot be measured only by yield. The real development of agriculture will be when technology and traditional farming knowledge work together to create systems that are productive today and sustainable for future generations. Agriculture is not just evolving with technology. It is evolving with knowledge. And the biggest transformation will happen when innovation reaches the farmer at the field level. #Agriculture #AgriTech #PrecisionAgriculture #SmartFarming #SustainableAgriculture #IndianAgriculture #Farmers #AgriInnovation #13Day #ModernAgriculture #FutureOfAgriculture

Startup News Tamil

🚀 இந்தியாவின் Innovation Ecosystem-ஐ வலுப்படுத்தும் நோக்கில் பிரதமர் நரேந்திர மோடி, ₹1 லட்சம் கோடி Research, Development & Innovation Initiative குறித்து அறிவித்துள்ளார். இந்த முயற்சி: ✅ DeepTech Startups ✅ AI & Robotics ✅ HealthTech ✅ AgriTech ✅ Researchers ✅ Universities ஆகிய துறைகளுக்கு புதிய வாய்ப்புகளை உருவாக்கும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது. 📢 Startup உலகின் தினசரி செய்திகளுக்கு Startup News Tamil-ஐ Subscribe செய்யுங்கள். Umasankaran P Pooja Karan SUDHARSAN RV #StartupNewsTamil #StartupIndia #Innovation #Research #DeepTech #AI #PMModi #India #Entrepreneur #Technology

Agrifirst - Farmers First

If you searched "How do I become AI-proof?", what answer would you expect? Learn another programming language? Upskill? Switch companies? Those are valuable steps—but they don't change one reality. Industries evolve, roles change, and technology keeps moving. The one constant is that people will always need food. That's why more professionals are exploring hi-tech farming—not as an escape from technology, but as a business powered by technology. Protected cultivation combines innovation with agriculture to create real assets, recurring income potential, and long-term opportunities. At Agrifirst - Farmers First, we help aspiring farm entrepreneurs build future-ready farms with end-to-end guidance, modern technology, and practical expertise. 🌱 Discover Hi-Tech Farming: https://lnkd.in/dHWhrahy 📖 Read our latest blog: https://lnkd.in/d8gfChsY If you could build a career that's designed to thrive over the next 20 years, what would you choose—and why? #AgriFirst #HiTechFarming #AI #FutureOfWork #Agriculture #AgriTech #CareerGrowth #ProtectedCultivation #PolyhouseFarming #FarmEntrepreneur #FutureOfFarming #FoodSecurity #Agribusiness #SmartFarming #FarmersFirst Abhishek Bhatt Shashank Bhatt Aman Kumar Shreyash Pandey Peeyush Pandey Harsh Barua Siya Santosh Arpit Kumar Ashutosh mishra Rajan Pandey Ankita Srivastava Agrifirst - Farmers First Sriyank Rastogi

ANNAM Intelligence Technologies Pvt.Ltd.

In the Indian supply chain, "trust" is usually a piece of paper on a clipboard. Today, the vast majority of our ₹80,000 Crore cold storage network relies on manual temperature logs checked twice a day. But here is the reality of thermodynamics: by the time a human reads a thermometer and realizes a compressor has failed, the thermal drift has already ruined the inventory. That is not trust. That is just hoping for the best. At ANNAM Intelligence Technologies, we are engineering mathematical certainty into the post-harvest supply chain. We aren't just chilling rooms; we are deploying the Annam Operating System (AOS) to build a predictive intelligence layer over physical infrastructure. What does technical trust look like for our enterprise FMCG and Pharma clients? 🔹 Predictive, Not Reactive: Our edge IoT sensors don’t just record temperature. They capture high-frequency telemetry—from compressor voltage to ambient humidity. Our Machine Learning models process this to predict hardware failures hours before a physical breakdown occurs. 🔹 API-First Visibility: No more blind spots. We provide enterprise clients with a unified API that integrates directly into their ERPs, offering real-time, tamper-proof thermal dashboards for their inventory nationwide. 🔹 Eliminating Human Error: By automating the operational workflows and energy load balancing, we remove the friction and unreliability of manual facility management. We are building the "AWS of Cold Storage" because India’s critical food and pharmaceutical supplies deserve infrastructure that never blinks, never sleeps, and never guesses. True supply chain security isn't just about staying cold. It is about staying connected. 🔗❄️ #DeepTech #SupplyChainTransparency #Agritech #IoT #MachineLearning #PredictiveAnalytics #PharmaColdChain #FoodSecurity #StartupIndia #ANNAMIntelligence #BuildInIndia #VentureCapital

Gnouyadou Noël PIKELI

🌦️ Et si l'agriculture de précision commençait par mieux écouter les agriculteurs eux-mêmes ? Je suis toujours aussi admiratif du travail mené par l'APNI (African Plant Nutrition Institute) sur le terrain, notamment à travers leur récente publication : la Planting Heat Map, réalisée auprès d'agriculteurs des comtés de Siaya, Machakos, Kakamega et Embu, au Kenya. Ce que cette étude met en lumière est essentiel : la variabilité climatique ne touche pas tous les territoires de la même façon, ni au même moment. 📍 Quelques enseignements marquants de leurs travaux : - À *Machakos* et *Embu*, les périodes de sécheresse se concentrent en bordure des saisons des pluies principales. - À *Siaya* et *Kakamega*, on observe une nette recrudescence des conditions sèches en fin d'année. Ces écarts ne sont pas anecdotiques : ils conditionnent directement le calendrier d'application des engrais, la planification des semis et l'accès au financement agricole. C'est exactement le type d'approche que je défends : une agriculture de précision construite à partir des expériences réelles des agriculteurs, croisées avec les données climatiques, pour offrir une aide à la décision *localisée et actionnable*. 👉 Je vous invite vivement à lire l'article complet de l'APNI pour découvrir l'analyse détaillée par comté : [https://lnkd.in/emtT-cyp] Un grand bravo à l'équipe APNI pour ce travail rigoureux et porteur de sens pour l'avenir de l'agriculture climato-intelligente. #AgriculturePrécision #APNI #Kenya #Agritech #ClimatAgricole #AgricultureIntelligente

Chandni Preeti Vijaykumar Shah

@adv_chandnishah

From 1 single farm in 2006 to empowering over 1 MILLION Indian farmers today! 🌱🚜 PM Modi’s Israel visit built on a two-decade-old promise—introducing advanced agricultural innovation centers to transform entire farming communities. 🇮🇳🇮🇱 One partnership. 17 landmark agreements. https://t.co/6ABgaHMtZj

iGrow News

EW Group and Ranchbot closed the week's only two AgTech deals, three companies launched new farm technology, and USDA and DHS signed a biosecurity memorandum against New World screwworm smuggling. The Deals EW Group GmbH completed its acquisition of French natural-solutions maker Olmix from Amadeite and Motion Equity Partners on August 7, folding the 100-country biologicals maker into a holding company of more than 300 subsidiaries. Ranchbot Monitoring Solutions raised more than $15 million in a Series B led by Lewis & Clark Partners and Fulcrum Global Capital, funding a new U.S. holding company in Fort Worth, Texas, on top of the 10 million cattle and 15 million sheep it already tracks for more than 12,000 customers. The Products Netafim launched GrowSphere FLEX, a smart-irrigation platform built for smallholder farmers who can't afford full precision-ag systems. Varda Foundation open-sourced its SoilHive soil-data platform. Little Leaf Farms began commissioning a new greenhouse in Tennessee, extending its pesticide-free, greenhouse-grown leafy greens into the Southeast. The Response USDA and the Department of Homeland Security signed a memorandum on August 10 pairing USDA's animal-health expertise with DHS border and inspection authorities against New World screwworm. USDA ties the smuggling to roughly 800,000 head of cattle and $320 million in illicit trade moved annually from Central America into Mexico. Zoetis separately won emergency-use authorization for its Simparica Trio treatment against the same threat. Read the full editorial on iGrow Network: https://lnkd.in/d6baFeg3

AA BIOTEK

@AABiotek

🌾 Better Solutions. Healthier Farms. Stronger Future. From crops & livestock to aquaculture & environmental management, AA Biotek provides science-backed biological solutions designed for real farming needs. #AABiotek #TEKProducts #BiologicalSolutions #AgriTech https://t.co/fdn0KmBPfd