According to World Food Programme WFP, as many as 828 million people across the globe, go to bed hungry every night, as the number of those facing acute food insecurity has soared from 135 million to 345 million, stating that the agricultural sector is under huge pressure to increase.
In a bid to support the agricultural sector by reducing food shortages and worldwide hunger, Agritech company, Cropin has announced the launch of its Cropin cloud.
This new technology will bring together a suite of agriculture digitization applications, access to powerful, ready-to-use data sources, and AI-powered agri-intelligence into an integrated, easy-to-use platform to accelerate digital transformation across the agri-ecosystem
The company which was founded in 2010, with several of its products present in 92 countries, is backed by investors including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and CDC Group, as it is set on digitizing the agricultural industry.
It has also partnered with over 250 B2B customers and has digitized 26 million acres of farmland. It claims the world’s largest crop knowledge graph of more than 500 crops and 10,000 crop varieties.
Founder and CEO of Cropin, Krishna Kumar disclosed that Cropin Cloud was developed because the agriculture industry does not have access to a “unified, coherent platform that can enable and help build a wide variety of solutions,” even as it faces disruptions caused by climate change, geo-political tensions, food supply chain disruptions and a growing global population.
“The global agricultural ecosystem is gigantic in depth and breadth, but strangely, the tools to capture and share data coherently are sorely missing,” he added.
The newly launched technology, Cropin Cloud offers so many benefits to the agricultural industry. It can be used by agribusinesses of all sizes.
It also has three sub-platforms that allow farmers and other stakeholders in the food value chain to access tools for earth observation, remote sensing, and data and machine learning to help them better manage crops and harvests.
It also helps farmers track deforestation and carbon emissions.
