Produce for the next 10 billion people will come from tech

In the session “Disrupting Agriculture with Deep Tech”, innovators in the AgriTech sector spoke about how technology empowers the agriculture vertical and how advanced technologies will bring in different business models (Moderated by Vaishnavi Desai)

Rajesh Jalan, CTO, Cropin Technology, said technology is going to be everywhere in the agriculture ecosystem with the coming of the cloud, loT, satellites, etc. It is also rising with development of AI/ML. The cost at which we are able to do things has also changed. We can analyze the world, on-demand. With technology, the whole agriculture ecosystem will get connected. That would bring in different models.

Agriculture is going to become very scientific and prescriptive. Farmers will be able to do things that are supposed to be done. It would take into account the changing climate, soil and atmosphere. Farmers would be able to get huge value for per acre of land. Amount of produce for the next 10 billion people will come from technology.

Lalit Gautam, CEO, SenseGrass, said agriculture is a traditional industry. We are using a combination of all things. Use cases are huge, and dependent on what you want to achieve. Combination of two things can solve multiple use cases. We are creating the farm operating system, a one-stop solution for farmers. Scope of using new technologies in traditional markets are very high.