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Ecosystem
Workshops, & Webinars we organiseed
1. Geospatial Technology Applications & Opportunities For AGTECH Start-Ups
Workshop Jointly Organized by Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) &Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC)
The Indian agri-food tech sector has surged from 43 start-ups in 2013 to over 3,000 by 2023, driven by innovations in digital technologies. These advancements, which include crop yield estimation, risk management, and autonomous farm mechanization, leverage geospatial technologies like remote sensing, GPS, and GIS to optimize farming practices. The integration of satellite data, weather observatories, and mobile data collection systems promises a robust digital agricultural ecosystem, bolstered by government initiatives such as AgriStack and the Krishi Decision Support System.
Despite this progress, challenges persist, including awareness on data availability, data gaps, data quality issues, Duplication of efforts in data generation and unorganized data collection systems. The two-day workshop on 'Geospatial Technology Applications and Opportunities for ag-tech start-ups,organized by RICH and MNCFC was planned & organized to initiate dialogue among the various stakeholders to understand their challenges and highlight emerging opportunities to build solutions and collaborations.
Purpose of Workshop
The overall objective of the workshop was to appraise the participant on opportunities available for developing innovative geospatial-enabled technology solutions. Specifically, the workshop focused on:
- Awareness building among participants about the vast landscape of agriculture data availability and its accessibility. Presenting use cases that feature geospatial technology applications in agriculture. Testing models using datasets provided by MNCFC.
- Creating awareness on digital agriculture initiatives led by DAFW, MoAFW. Mentoring start-ups on resolving their technology platform challenges & assist with upscaling models.
Key Highlights
- The workshop illuminated emerging opportunities for leveraging geospatial technologies to address business challenges, with specific mention of MNCFC datasets and potential start-up ideas.
- Technical sessions covered diverse topics, including agriculture data availability, geospatial technology applications, digital agriculture initiatives and agritech start-up development schemes led by DAFW.
- Post event feedback received from 47 participants were largely positive, with most of them appreciating the effort made by RICH and MNCFC. The workshop had a good referral response (Net Promoter Score) of 68.
- Day 2 session also highlights one-on-one mentor sessions to start-ups by MNCFC team.
- Networking opportunities and the connections established during the workshop was another major highlight shared y the participants.
Start-ups participated in the workshop are :
- AgriRainAgro Industries Pvt Ltd
- AgroCast Analytics Pvt Ltd
- AgroNxt Services Pvt Ltd
- Coastal aquaculture research institute Pvt Ltd
- Crop Intellix Pvt Ltd
- Dasvande Technologies Pvt Ltd
- ECSO Global Pvt Ltd
- Farmgreen Agritech India Pvt Ltd
- GeoInfy Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Geosoft Systems Pvt Ltd
- GramworkX Pvt Ltd
- Krishiyog Pvt Ltd
- Navariti Innovations Pvt Ltd
- Neytiri Robotics Pvt Ltd
- NogyoFarmtech Pvt Ltd
- Piatrika Biosystems Pvt Ltd
- Pradical Pvt Ltd
- Remosens Innovations Metlab LLP
- Revin Pvt Ltd
- RMSI Pvt Ltd
- RootsGoods Pvt Ltd
- SatSure Analytics India Pvt Ltd
- Sayaji Seeds LLP
- Semantic Technologies and Agritech Services Pvt Ltd
- SIA Surya Agrotech Pvt Ltd
- Skymet Weather Services Pvt Ltd
- Smart Falcon Pvt Ltd
- Source Trace India Pvt Ltd
- Trayambhu Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
- VarahaClimateAg Pvt Ltd
- Vidhi Analytics LLP
- Viraj Infra Pvt Ltd
- Weather Risk Management Services Pvt Ltd
Outreach and Impact
- Received 190+ registrations representing diverse entities like industry, ecosystem partners, research organizations, start-ups and others.
- 74 participants joined the workshop, representing 34 start-ups, 9 research organizations, 4 industry and 4 ecosystem partners from across India.
2. Showcasing Emerging Technologies for FPOs
Research & Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH), National Association for Farmer Producer Organisations (NAFPO) and Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF), recently organized a virtual technology showcase to connect agtech start-ups with FPOs and rural development agencies.
3. Webinar on Climate Smart Agriculture!
Insights into successful CSA projects & best practices. Start-up pitching sessions showcasing cutting-edge innovations. Networking with key players in the Agri-ecosystem. Session by Samunnati on its green bond initiative to boost climate smart agriculture. Discussions on overcoming challenges and building climate resilience.
Projects
1. Feasibility of Innovation Hub at ISARC
RICH coordinated the development of a roadmap document for IRRI South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC) to establish an innovation hub supporting agtech start-ups in rice-based cropping systems. The project aimed to benefit ISARC and required INR 2.5 lac for Phase 1. The impact included assessing the feasibility of the innovation hub, with the possibility of extending the project to a co-business incubation initiative over 3 years.
Project Partners
2. UNDP
To map Climate Resilient Agriculture practices in the UNDP-Data on the Climate Resilient Agriculture (DiCRA) platform to make them available for scientists and practitioners for adoption across the world. achieved milestones : 1. Identified 25 climate-resilient agriculture practices in Telangana through ethnographic studies.
Project Achievements
Trained over 110 farmers as citizen scientists.
Designed knowledge products for wider adoption
DICRA scaled to 7 states, and platform to be managed by NABARD