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Google's Agricultural Understanding models move to public preview after use in Gujarat's Krushi Pragati platform, while DeepMind funds a sorghum genetic atlas and a three-year fellowship at ICRISAT.
India's TEC and ICAR hosted the ITU-coordinated GI-AI4FS alongside India Mobile Congress, after an 8 to 9 October AI hackathon. Working group chairs and terms of reference were on the agenda.
Amsterdam-based Source.ag, whose software runs in more than 500 greenhouses in 25 countries, did not disclose terms. Optimal founder Dave Hunter joins as VP Autonomous Control.
At the India launch of World Development Report 2026 on 8 October, the IT minister said AI lifted Baramati sugarcane yields 40% with 30% less water and fertiliser. No study was cited.
Farmers Business Network says early versions will reach farmers this autumn and Google will give it early access to frontier models. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
