IIT Guwahati Students and Alumni of NIT Silchar and Dibrugarh Universities in Assam have launched a multi-lingual smartphone application, AgSpeak, for farmers to maintain their crops.
According to the press release issued by IIT Guwahati, the agri-tech start-up which is free for small farmers has been launched to optimise in-farm productivity via Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The start-up has been supported by Akash Sharma (IIT Guwahati student), Siddhartha Bora (NIT Silchar alumnus), Manik Mittal (IIT Guwahati student), Nitin Chauhan (IIT Guwahati student), Kookil Pran Goswami (Dibrugarh University alumnus) and Dhritiman Talukdar (NIT Silchar alumnus).
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This application will guide the farmers to make decisions and manage farm activities by clicking on a single button on their mobile or computer.
While congratulating students, IIT Director Prof T G Sitharam stated, “our students are working to bring out state-of-the-art technology for the farmers of our country”.
The release also added that ‘AgSpeak’ is multilingual and has an option of Assamese and this element is a first among all the agri-tech applications accessible in the market.
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Furthermore, the app includes up to 20 local crop parameters that are prime indicators of their health, including temperature, sunlight hours, soil health status, rainfall, among others.
It will warn farmers about probable crop threats beforehand and advise ideal practices to solve the problems. Thus it will be optimising the resources used as well as enhancing productivity.
Apart from this, major commercial users of the product are commercial plantation farms such as tea gardens, grape vineyards, and lemon orchards.
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The release also mentioned that The AgSpeak app along with the Internet of Things (IoT) hardware has been checked for the last three months with 500 farmers and two tea estates and some of the main breakthroughs were precise prediction about tea mosquito bug, blights in potatoes, water stress in winter crops, that are a principal concern for farmers and can cause major crop damages, if not managed within time.
Around 250 farmers have already been provided with the first-hand experience in knowing the full potential of the app and multilingual features, and its user-friendliness makes it easy for farmers to work.
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