CropIn Technology, an agritech firm specialising in intelligent agriculture, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Private Limited have inked an MoU with the aim of developing a solution to combat global hunger and food insecurity.
The initiative aims to assist the company in developing essential components such as core data architecture, analytics, modeling, and simulation to integrate global farmland data and climate intelligence into a unified solution.
The solution will provide decision intelligence to governments, development agencies, and agri-businesses, and help them ensure food security for vulnerable populations.
As part of this initiative, CropIn will develop workloads that could eventually constitute a Food Security Decision Intelligence solution powered by AWS. The solution would leverage AWS's advanced computing capabilities, including High Performance Computing (HPC), modeling/simulation, internet of things (IoT), robotics, visual/spatial computing, and generative artificial intelligence (AI).
It will combine Cropin's deep domain expertise in agriculture, earth observation sciences, data science, AI/ML, and deep learning models to provide accurate and granular crop yield intelligence for the most important food crops worldwide, initially focusing on rice, wheat, potato and maize, as they collectively account for more than half of the world's food requirements.
Speaking on the announcement, Krishna Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Cropin said, “Our collaboration with AWS marks a significant step towards building a global real-time decision intelligence solution, which will provide insights into several aspects of food security - agriculture, climate, trade, and supply chain - in one dashboard. This engagement with AWS helps us showcase the use of technology, data, and AI to solve these pressing issues.”
Shalini Kapoor, director and chief technologist, AWS India Private Limited, said, “At AWS, we are inspired to work with customers to solve the most complex challenges at scale. Our work with CropIn showcases the power of advanced compute capabilities on the cloud to drive social and environmental impact. AWS’s generative AI, simulation, and data analytics technologies can help organisations like Cropin surface actionable and relevant insights from diverse data sets, and scale their solution globally to empower decision makers to reduce food insecurity.”
Founded in 2010, CropIn facilitates stakeholders to make informed decisions that enhance farming efficiency, productivity, and sustainability through digital technologies and predictive intelligence.
It has digitised 30 million acres of farmlands, positively impacting over 7 million farmers worldwide. Our crop knowledge graph, spanning 500 crops and 10,000 varieties in 103 countries, powers the CropIn Cloud in providing predictive intelligence for over 200 million acres of farmland globally, the company claims.
