Agriculture Intelligence Powered by cloud, Flying Robots & Machine Learning

Ruchit G Garg

•  Serial Technology Entrepreneur •  Based in Silicon Valley, USA •  Worked for Microsoft, Several Startups •  Worked from India, Japan & USA •  Named as ‘Person of the week’ by

TIMES group India •  Awarded by President Of India for

services as young boy Scout. @ruchitgarg Twitter Handle:

Global Food Challenge

Current Population 7 billion

2 Billion Malnourished

805 Million hungry every night

Global Food Challenge

Current Population 7 billion

2.8 billion More by 2050

Population by 2050 9.8 Billion

2 Billion Malnourished

805 Million hungry every night

Acute food insecurity

•  Increase in cost of agricultural labor •  Increase in cost of fertilizers & herbicides •  Increase in population •  Decrease in total arable land

Can cause huge social political instability globally

Massive Input Output Problem

$13.5B/Year worth of crops gets wasted due to unwise use of water & pesticides in India alone

2.8 Billion more people to feed by 2050

We only have 34 seasons in hand  

HARVEST YOUR FIELD DATA Answer is

New era for agriculture

•  Mechanical •  Chemical •  Genetics •  Data

Food Challenge

Machine Learning

Internet Of Things

Cloud Computing

Trilogy solving massive problems

Farm

Farm == Data

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Agricultural Drones/UAVs UAV with sensors can tell lot more, lot faster, can save lot of resources for farmers

Pictures from www.harvesting.co

Autonomous Tractors Self driving, Variable rate sowing and more…

Field Data

Land Record Data

Weather Data

Pest Outbreak Data

Trends & predictions for farmers, state and non-state agencies

Future… •  Embrace technology & harvest data •  Immense need & opportunity •  Huge socio-economic Impact •  Attract youth back to agriculture •  Bring next revolution in agriculture

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