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Technology | Seed idea: this app tells farmers when to sow

Seed idea: this app tells farmers when to sow

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published Published on Jun 12, 2016   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2016
-The Hindu Business Line
 
Icrisat-Microsoft develop solution that analyses massive data to predict the right time

Hyderabad:
Forget about weather SMSes or marketing tips to farmers over the phone. Now, an app-based solution can tell farmers when to sow their seeds. Sifting massive volumes of data, this app will help farmers in Andhra Pradesh to pick the perfect sowing week. The advice could vary from farmer to farmer and from village to village.

Icrisat (International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics) has teamed up with Microsoft and the Andhra Pradesh government to develop this solution. Icrisat expects the personalised Village Advisory Dashboard (the interface) will solve a key problem faced by the small farmers.

“The Sowing App and Personalised Village Advisory Dashboard are developed to provide powerful cloud-based predictive analytics to farmers. This will help reduce crop failures,” said Anil Bhansali, MD, Microsoft India (Research and Development).

The institute used Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Suite, including Machine Learning and Business Intelligence (BI) tools. It uploaded the data collected from farms in 13 districts to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.

Using Business Intelligence tools, the dashboard provides important insights into soil health, fertiliser recommendations, and a seven-day weather forecast in Telugu.

“The sowing application deploys powerful artificial intelligence to interface with weather forecasting models provided by the USA-based aWhere Inc. It also factors in rainfall data collected over 45 years as well as 10 years of groundnut sowing progress data for Kurnool district,” said an Icrisat statement.

The solution will analyse the data to provide predictable and usable data to farmers to pick the ideal sowing week.
 
The Hindu Business Line, 9 June, 2016, please click here to access

The Hindu Business Line, 9 June, 2016, http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/seed-idea-this-app-tells-farmers-when-to-sow/article8710377.ece


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