This techie delivers AI/ML-based solutions to boost yields of small farmers

Krishna Kumar's solutions help in deriving real time insights on standing crop and estimating yields, and soften the blow of unpredictability in farming operations

It’s quite common for an engineer to start a technology venture in India, but to pick up agriculture as a sector for using such technological applications is a bit unusual.

In a country where farmers make the headlines only during elections or in distress situations like floods, drought or suicides, Krishna Kumar, a techie who worked with global major GE before taking the entrepreneurial plunge, is trying to revolutionise this primary sector of the economy using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and big data, amomg others.

"The whole idea is to increase producers' value. We