Costly hardware kept small farms from smart irrigation. Now, an AI agent uses satellite data to send free watering plans via WhatsApp.
An agricultural technology provider with proprietary sensor-based irrigation algorithms sought to expand its reach to the 90% of the world's farmers running small-scale operations.
Unpredictable climate change has made traditional irrigation methods ineffective, but small-scale farmers lack the resources and technical experience...
“Around 90% of the world’s farmers are running small-scale operations. Often, they have little experience with technology and lack resources to install hardware. By redesigning our technology to meet their needs, we aimed to help significantly raise crop productivity across the world.”
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