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digital agriculture

Agri AI, India

Google opens farm AI models to developers and backs ICRISAT sorghum atlas

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.

15 October 20262 min read

AI standards, India

UN initiative on AI for agri-food systems holds second meeting in Delhi

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.

10 October 2026

From the archive

Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.

Precision & digital, IndiaTop 3 agritech platforms using the most intriguing technologies in agriculture to support farmersProfiles three Indian agritech platforms: AgNext's AI food quality testing, Unnati's farm advisory and credit services, and AgriBazaar's digital agriculture platform.
Precision & digital, GlobalBig data unleashed: the digital agriculture revolutionFarmers are using data on weather, soil, crop health and machinery to guide planting, irrigation and supply chain decisions, though collection costs, data quality and privacy remain concerns.
Precision & digital, India‘Agristack!’ A way forward?AgriStack, a set of digital farm databases, is being built through MoUs with Microsoft, Star Agribazaar, Amazon and Patanjali, raising concerns over data protection and exclusion.
Precision & digital, GlobalAgtech for smallholder farmersExplains the problems smallholder farmers face in reaching markets, inputs, finance and know-how, and how digital tools and agtech could help.
Precision & digital, India5 MoUs signed by agriculture ministry for digitalised agricultureThe agriculture ministry signed MoUs with Cisco, Ninjacart, Jio Platforms, ITC and NCDEX e-Markets for digital pilot projects, as it builds a federated farmers database.
Precision & digital, GlobalAg-tech and the digital transformation of rural areasDiscusses how agtech could raise productivity and incomes in rural areas, the barriers of connectivity, cost, skills and data privacy, and what policymakers can do.
Precision & digital, IndiaGovernment to work on “agri-stack” database to provide unique ID to every farmerThe Centre plans a national 'digital agri-stack' database giving each farmer an ID linked to land records, to target subsidies, services and policies.
Precision & digital, IndiaSeeding a data revolution in Indian agricultureArgues that the agriculture ministry's IDEA digital ecosystem paper and a Bain report both bank on technology and investment while overlooking the capacity building small farmers need.

Google opens farm AI models to developers and backs ICRISAT sorghum atlas

UN initiative on AI for agri-food systems holds second meeting in Delhi

From the archive

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