Krishivaas AI – Early Warning System
Problem Statement: Farmers need to scout for crop stressed areas within their farm daily to detect & intervene on the stressed areas. This is a tedious process often not done on daily basis. Typically, farmers realize their crop is stressed only when about 25% – 30% is affected, which gives the farmer no time to plan the most effective intervention, rather he ends up over spraying of chemicals, generally costing him more; as well as reducing the probability recovery due to late intervention, overall impacting his yield & profitability. • According to UN FAO, Farmers lose up to 40% of their potential crop yield due to Pest and Diseases. • Early intervention is critical to reduce the loss in crop yield but expecting a farmer to inspect every inch of the farm is very tedious and keeps the farmers away from other activities • Every crop poses a different challenge in terms of inspection due thick vegetation, height of the crop and especially horticulture related crops like cashew and oil palms. • There are some pests and diseases that start within the stem/root/below the leaf, with very little visual manifestation for the Farmer to detect and by the time there is visual manifestation, the time available for the farmer to intervene will be greatly reduced impacting the final yield. Implemented Solution: Early Detection of stresses leads to savings in cost (reduced pesticide use) and improves productivity (increased probability of recovery due to early intervention) Krishivaas AI – Early Warning System for the farmers, processes daily, multi spectral satellite images of the crop fields using our proprietary algorithms to detect both Abiotic as well as Biotic stressed areas, Alert the farmer and help in navigating to the exact location so that the most optimal intervention can be planned out. Krishivaas AI – Early Warning System is fully automated and sends out alerts with actionable intelligence without any human intervention, making it the most economical solution for the farmers, freeing up their scouting time to manage other activities. Field studies in India have shown that our solution helps small and marginal farmers to reduce costs by about 30% and improve productivity by about 25% with our solution cost for the farmers being only $ 0.016 USD (1.6 cents only) per day, per acre. Beyond real-time farm analysis, we leverage three years of satellite imagery data to deliver these insights upon farm onboarding: • Farm productivity zones map: • Identification of Crop and non-crop areas: • Multi-year crop cycles with sowing and harvest dates • Precise crop acreage calculation after eliminating non-crop and non-vegetation areas This comprehensive approach empowers farmers with actionable insights for optimizing agricultural practices.
Sky, Space And Communication Technologies
Geographic information systems
Solution Developed, Tested and Validated for 3 years in stealth mode, Commercially being launched in November, 2024. Break-even expected to be within 24 months.
Solution is developed to be crop and geography agnostic currently being Implemented in India and tested in Africa and South-east Asia.
Krishivaas AI – Early Warning System is “First time in the World” solution that processes daily satellite images to detect crop stresses early and provide Actionable Intelligence alerts to the farmers as well as the stakeholders within the agricultural ecosystem. We are Platform partner to the daily satellite data provider (owner & operator of over 190 satellites currently in orbit with the highest probability of getting a useful daily image of any crop field anywhere in the world) There are many solutions already available for interpreting the cause of crop stresses as well as the best remedy for the stresses, but all these need to be triggered by the farmer once the crop stress is detected. Krishivaas AI – Early Warning System detects the crop stress area automatically, without any human intervention nor any devices on ground, we are not aware of any other solution who have achieved the same using daily satellite images. Our solution is very economical & cost-effective with price being only $ 0.016 USD (1.6 cents only) per day, per acre. Our solution has been ground validated by International & Indian research organizations of repute. As part of the product development process, it has also been ground validated by the user community for 6 growing seasons. Multi year MoUs has been signed with major agri corporate players to take our solution to their farmers Krishivaas AI– Global Firsts • Early Detection of crop stresses 7-10 days before the Farmer would have noticed. • Early Detection of crop stresses before Visual Manifestation. where stresses are detected while the crop looked good to the naked eye. (Issues that originate at the root / stem / below leaf / cob, etc.) • Automated stress demarcation with quantification and navigation
The solution was developed in stealth mode hence there has been no publicity drive yet. This is the first time we are applying to any award as we are commercially launching in November this year
As we were developing in stealth mode all our IP is just trade secrets, currently working with scientists in ICRISAT to publish in peer reviewed journals
