Helping Farmers

Kochi resident Charles Vijay Verghese built SAPER, the “world’s first coconut sap tapping robot” through his agri-tech startup. Watch this video to see how the robot is bettering the lives of farmers

Started by Prateeksha and Prateek Sharma of Madhya Pradesh, ‘Green and Grains’, is a Farm-to-Fork business model in which partner farmers are trained to manage production on their land, and their organic produce is delivered to customers’ doorstep.

"Fodder grown in the Kambala machine has been found to increase milk production by around 2 litres per cattle and saved around 15-20 per cent of a farmer's expense on fodder farming."

One of the main precautions that farmers take before the monsoon season is to spray copper sulphate to protect the crop from fruit rot disease. However, due to the twin problems of labour shortage and the height of the trees, it is a tortuous task.

Dr. Gowda also invented a unique innovative product in the form of Liquid Organic Plant Food that helps in growth of plants while also maintaining the quality of land known as Dr. Soil.

The AWS will be helpful in measuring the accuracy in rain pattern, humidity & expected rainfall along with information on the best crop for farmers.

The insurance scheme was deployed to safeguard the coconut palm farmers against losses that they might incur due to natural causes.

Devised by Ruchinilo Kemp, the app is helping farmers in remote villages of Udaipur district reach out to experts via text, photos and videos