CropIn Farm Reporting via geotagged systems

#Farm reporting is a manual process as it involves maintaining records, information about pests, germination percentage, area validation and weather forecasts. But CropIn has made it possible by geo-tagging every farm and helping trace the activities of each and every farm in real time. Once the field manager geo-tags the farm, it helps the manager to know the entire characteristics of the farm. Features such as, which area of the farm is prone to pest risks, how good was the harvest over the past three years and what are the risk factors that have to be looked into in the current harvest, and #crop production forecast enable efficient management of the farm.”

It was only in 2010 that the ball got rolling, when early-stage investors such as Ankur Capital, and FusionCharts pumped in 20 lakh, helping Kumar to formally set up CropIn Technologies. Pallav Nadhani, co-founder, FusionCharts, says, “The technology brought in by CropIn is completely new and given that India is driven by agriculture, we envisioned scale in the business.”

But it was only after Safal, a division of the National Dairy Development Board, agreed to implement a pilot project that CropIn was able to get multinational adopters such as Fieldfresh, McCain, and PepsiCo on board. Today, CropIn’s clientele also includes Philip Morris, Godfrey Phillips, ITC, Mahindra-HZPC, Bigbasket, Finlays, and Sahyadari Farms.

What’s in it
There are three main components in the CropIn app— Smart Farm, Smart Sales, and mWarehouse which not only enables farmers but also companies engaged in the agri value chain