Synopsis:
Facing climate volatility and unpredictable supply, major US and European agri-businesses are urgently adopting AI in agriculture. This blog explains why they chose Cropin, the world’s most advanced AI Platform, for critical agri-intelligence. The key is Cropin’s deep domain expertise, proven globally and tailored locally. Through case studies with retail giant Walmart, regenerative farming consortium EIT Food, and premium brand Loacker, the post highlights Cropin’s unparalleled experience across diverse geographies.
The global agri-food system is under immense strain. Climate volatility, geopolitical risks, and resource scarcity have made crop supply unpredictable. For major US and European agri-businesses from global food retailers to premium food brands the need for resilience and certainty is paramount. To secure sustainable and predictable operations, leveraging AI in agriculture is not optional; it’s essential. This critical need is precisely why over 100+ industry leaders trust Cropin – the world’s most advanced AI platform for food and agriculture.
From vision to global scale: The power of Cropin Cloud
From a modest apartment in Bangalore in 2010, Cropin embarked on a journey that few could have imagined would span continents. At that time, farm traceability was barely a concept, digitization of farms was a distant idea, the notion of intelligent agriculture was unheard of, and Europe and the US were not even on our radar. Today, our vision to prove technology could transform farms has scaled dramatically: our flagship offering, Cropin Cloud, the world’s first industry cloud for agriculture, has already computed 10% of the world’s cultivable lands. This unparalleled scale and deep expertise are powered by the crop knowledge grid spanning 400+ crops and 10,000+ varieties.
As we evolved, we embraced a B2B model partnering with agri-food companies that had been shaping the sector for decades. It was their trust and demand for quantifiable results that organically drove our global expansion. What started as engagements in India for organizations headquartered in Europe and North America gradually led to deployments across in 103 countries, digitizing 30 million acres of farmland worldwide. In many ways, our expansion into Europe and the US wasn’t a push, but a pull our customers brought us along.
Today, our solutions are deployed across the US—from the fertile Midwest, California’s Fruit & Vegetable Heartland, to the Pacific Northwest and throughout Europe, covering diverse agricultural landscapes. Each deployment is a testament to our capability to tailor intelligent AI in agriculture to local agronomic practices while addressing the complex demands of global agri-food supply chains. This journey underscores a simple truth: when technology meets deep agronomic expertise and a customer-first approach, geographic boundaries become opportunities.
Cropin’s European and US customers Regard us not just for the technology we bring, but for the tangible results: impact, cost savings, insights, predictability, revenue acceleration, and resilience we help them build into their operations.
Shaping the future: AI technologies for agriculture in Europe and the US
Real-world impact is the ultimate measure of technology’s effectiveness, and Cropin’s deployments across the US and Europe demonstrate exactly that. From enabling operational excellence to driving sustainability and climate resilience, our solutions have helped leading agri-food companies transform their upstream agriculture operations.
In this blog, we highlight three distinct ways Cropin is making a difference
- Walmart - Building supply chain resilience and a competitive edge for the world’s largest retailer
- EIT food - Empowering the transition to regenerative agriculture, for a future-ready food ecosystem
- Loacker - Ensuring sustainable sourcing for one of the world’s most loved chocolate brands
Real deployments, real results
Case point 1:
Walmart - pioneering AI‑first digital transformation in retail
Walmart is setting new benchmarks by demonstrating how AI-first digital transformation helps deliver fresh produce at competitive pricing and reaffirms its leadership in the food retail sector.
For agri-businesses today, climate change is the biggest challenge. Supply chains are being disrupted by extreme weather events, which are further compounded by the ripple effects of geopolitical and macroeconomic challenges. Navigating these uncertainties demands innovative, future-ready solutions. Agri‑food stakeholders like Walmart, a pioneer in tech-driven transformation, continue to embrace technology to address these challenges head-on effectively.
Marking a ground-breaking industry effort, Cropin is deploying its cutting-edge, custom-built AI-powered solutions to help transform sourcing strategies for Walmart. The core focus is on enhancing supply chain resilience and optimizing operational efficiency.
By leveraging quality forecasts, crop readiness insights, and risk assessments, Cropin empowers agri-food stakeholders to shift to precision from guesswork. These insights enable Walmart to balance cost, quality, and sustainability in a dynamic market.
The platform’s impact:
- Real-time crop readiness detection: Cropin has automated crop stage detection using advanced AI and real-time analytics. This innovation removes the uncertainties of manual coordination. It empowers procurement teams with precise, data-driven insights for timely strategic decision-making. It has paved the way for a seamless and efficient supply chain.
- Predictable supply and quality: The platform ensures a steady supply of high-quality produce with maximized shelf life at optimized rates. Cropin’s capability to predict future crop yields and supply stability allows Walmart to proactively manage pricing strategies without compromising quality.
- Climate resilience: Automated tools provide granular and regional insights into crop health, extreme weather risks, and pest outbreaks, making the entire supply chain more robust against climate shocks. Cropin’s dynamic risk assessment offers predictive insights that allow procurement teams to act proactively, mitigating potential challenges.
- Predictive analytics: Cropin’s predictive analytics, which integrates historical trends and real-time data to forecast potential disruptions, offers various insights, including advanced yield estimation and pincode-level weather insights. This removes the stress of last-minute adjustments.
Walmart, a pioneer in tech-driven transformation, continues to set new benchmarks in the food retail sector by embracing cutting-edge technologies. They lead the way for retail majors, demonstrating how AI‑first digital transformation can future-proof their supply chain.
The sustainability bonus:
Cropin’s sustainability impact dashboard strengthens compliance for retailers by digitally tracking the origin of production. Our digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) offering revolutionizes data collection, validation, and intelligence. The unbiased dMRV from Cropin Cloud validates metrics such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water usage, and deforestation impact, supporting regulatory requirements and instilling consumer confidence.
Case point 2:
EIT Food - A powerful story of Europe-wide regenerative agriculture: making investments measurable, predictable, and profitable
In a pioneering move to stabilize sustainable sourcing, Cropin secured a €700,000 contract under the Impact Funding Framework of EIT Food. This strategic initiative, dubbed FIRST Potato (Field Intelligence for Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainability in Potato Farming), aims to revolutionize potato farming across key European markets by blending AI-powered decision support with regenerative practices.
The regenerative dilemma: unlocking verifiable outcomes
The agri-food sector is rapidly advancing regenerative agriculture to support corporate sustainable sourcing requirements. However, widespread adoption faces a critical challenge: the lack of verifiable, measurable outcomes. This problem is particularly acute in potato farming, where processors seek tubers with high solid content for superior chips and fries. They often worry that regenerative methods might reduce yields in the initial years, directly impacting their supply chain stability and profitability.
Cropin’s project directly addresses this difficult trade-off. We are building the data backbone necessary to ensure that regenerative farming is not only possible but predictable and profitable.
Precision, profit, and the planet
The first potato project integrates real-time data from satellites, weather stations, and in-field sensors directly into the Cropin platform. This approach enables the platform to deliver plot-specific advisories tailored to each farm’s unique soil profile and microclimatic conditions.
By leveraging this AI-driven precision, the platform supports optimized irrigation, input usage, and residue management. This enhances soil health and reduces the overall environmental impact without compromising crop quality or volume.
Pilot deployments in Denmark, Germany, and the UK, in collaboration with Aarhus University and local potato processors, will validate the platform’s effectiveness through these measurable metrics:
- 5% increase in crop yield
- 15% reduction in pesticide use
- 5% decrease in water usage
- 1.5% increase in solid content (a key quality metric for chip/fry processors)
This deployment ensures growers can enhance profitability while simultaneously restoring soil health and building climate resilience. It exemplifies how technology can transform traditional farming into a future-ready, climate-resilient industry.
Future-proofing European agri-food sectors
By combining regenerative practices with AI-driven precision, FIRST Potato offers a scalable model for sustainable agriculture that delivers collective benefits—enabling brands to meet their sustainability targets while ensuring growers maintain quality and profitability. This creates a clear win-win for the entire agri-food ecosystem.
As Europe accelerates its transition to regenerative agriculture, Cropin is building on this success for strategic commercial partnerships and pilot deployments across the region. We are currently in advanced discussions with several leading UK and European agri-food brands. We anticipate initiating multiple regenerative agriculture pilots before closing the current fiscal year, thus cementing our position as a key enabler of sustainable food systems.
Case point 3:
Loacker - digitising the Hazelnut value chain and securing the sustainable sourcing commitment for the world's most loved chocolate brand
Loacker, the maker of the world’s most loved wafers, is built on a commitment to quality and nature. To safeguard this promise, the company launched “Loacker Progetto Noccioleti Italiani” (Italian Hazelnut Groves Project) with an ambitious goal: sourcing 100% sustainably produced Italian hazelnuts. This long-term initiative involved investing in two self-owned estates and securing long-term contract farming partnerships with 80 regional growers across six Italian regions. The project’s success hinged on achieving total control over quality, agronomic techniques, and, crucially, end-to-end traceability.
The challenge: a crisis of visibility, quality, and data
Loacker’s dedication to sustainable, quality-controlled sourcing immediately aimed to address the fundamental challenges of traditional agriculture:
- Poor visibility at the farm: The company lacked real-time insight into farmers’ cultivation processes, making it impossible to effectively monitor plots or provide timely technical advice.
- Quality risk: Despite hazelnuts being inherently sustainable, threats like the stink bug infestation could quickly destroy the fruit, jeopardizing the quality of the raw material destined for their famous wafer cream.
- Protocol enforcement: Ensuring that all 80 regional partners strictly adhered to the rigorous, above-standard agronomic protocols required digital verification.
It became clear that scaling this sustainability commitment without digitalizing the entire supply chain was impossible.
The solution: AI-powered traceability from bloom to bar
To move the project forward, Loacker partnered with Cropin to leverage its farm digitization and supply chain management solutions. Cropin deployed its core applications, Cropin Grow (SmartFarm) and Cropin Trace (RootTrace), in both English and Italian to ensure seamless adoption by growers and Loacker’s field teams.
The technology immediately provided the field intelligence needed to keep Loacker’s promise of quality in every bite:
- Digital protocol adherence: The platform provided agronomists with a constant reference point, ensuring compliance with agronomic protocols that exceed national legal standards.
- Quality control: At the collection centers, technicians now use the SmartFarm application for all weighing, sampling, and quality checks, immediately segregating hazelnuts by quality grade.
- End-to-end tracing: The solution tracks the hazelnut's entire life cycle, from georeferenced planting data and crop age forecasting to the final processing plant in South Tyrol, confirming the Italian origin and quality.
The impact: precision, profitability, and a circular economy
By deploying these solutions, the “Italian hazelnut groves” project transformed from a supply chain challenge into a measurable success story, reinforcing Loacker’s commitment to responsible business management.
The initial phase of the deployment delivered significant impact metrics:
- Total farmers: 85+
- Total plots audited: 95+
- Harvest managed: 2,000+ Tonnes
This controlled, digitized supply chain enabled Loacker to not only reaffirm its commitment to traceability and sustainability but also achieve a truly circular economy: The hazelnut shells are enhanced to produce thermal energy, and the seed cuticle is reused for fibres and proteins by the nutraceutical segment.
This deployment demonstrates that a defined agronomic protocol fueled by digital technology delivers collective benefits:
- Empowers local growers to improve their livelihood through constant guidance
- Helps the brand guarantee premium quality
- Ensures sustainable sourcing is met with technological precision
Cropin’s solution transformed Loacker’s sustainability goal into a scalable, verifiable operational reality.
Conclusion: leading the global agri-intelligence movement
Our experience across over 100 countries and numerous deployments in Europe and the US confirms a crucial trend: Cropin has emerged as an undisputed leader in the Agritech domain, with our AI platform being the biggest competitive edge. This deep, demonstrated expertise is why European and US customers choose to work with us.
To serve these priority markets effectively, we’ve strengthened our presence by establishing local offices and recruiting teams who understand regional requirements. Furthermore, our Founder and CEO has strategically relocated to be closer to our US and European customers.
These regions are at the forefront of digital adoption, and we see the same enthusiasm driving the Agritech sector. We remain committed to partnering with the region’s agri-food players on large-scale transformation projects, acting as their trusted partner of choice to build a climate-resilient future.
