Farmers no longer practice farming with approaches of a few decades ago.  Modern farms and agricultural operations, primarily because of advancements in technology, including sensors, devices, machines, and information technology are currently used to maximize on the productivity. Today’s agriculture routinely uses sophisticated technologies. These advanced and precision agricultures allow businesses to be more profitable, efficient, safer, and more environmentally friendly.

Farmers no longer have to apply water, fertilizers, and pesticides uniformly across entire fields. Instead, they can use the minimum quantities required and target very specific areas, or even treat individual plants differently. Benefits include:

• Higher crop productivity
• Decreased use of water, fertilizer, and pesticides, which in turn keeps food prices down
• Reduced impact on natural ecosystems
• Less runoff of chemicals into rivers and groundwater
• Increased worker safety

Agri-Entrepreneur Platform

The Agri-Entrepreneur (AE) Enterprise platform aims to optimize all processes, from the selection of an AE leading up to their day-to-day business activities and farmer interactions. It will lead to faster scaling up, adding greater transparency and facilitating the creation of networks for seamless knowledge transfer. The platform is expected to make the process efficient in farmer profiling, capturing training outcomes, demand generation, transactions, monitoring and evaluation. It also helps in contributing towards analyzing big data in agriculture, thus facilitating efficient decision- making.