How AGRA and Cropin are empowering African farmers at scale
Savannah Seeds, among the world’s top seed companies, is focused on developing an innovative rice hybrid having increased yield and value-added traits. Its mission is to ensure sustainable food production using rice seed technology and positively impact farmers, its employees, and stakeholders.
The savannah seed’s challenges
The biggest challenges that they faced were:
- Manual data capture
- Discrepancy in data
- Bulky physical records
How Cropin helped
There was an urgent latent need for farm digitization. Cropin’s solution was deployed to digitize farm and farmer data. Plots were geotagged and the area audit was completed. This ensured traceability across the supply chain, real-time data capture, and alert log and management. Cropin provided timely crop advisories and customized reports that enabled data-driven decision-making. Pest and disease alerts ensured that threats were resolved quickly.
Impact
- 2000+ acres of farming operations digitized across Rajasthan and Haryana
- 40% increase in operational efficiency for six paddy varieties
- 60% reduced time in monitoring field operations
- 99.5% of plots reported best-in-class quality rice
- 100% of farm and farmers data were digitized
