CropIn AI refreshes data for 80% of Indian farmland every month
Krishna Kumar · Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India · Jan 4, 2021 · at 34:54
CropIn founder Krishna Kumar explains the macro AI mapping scale of their SmartRisk platform across 18 states in India.
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“In the smartest product, we have mapped 18 states in the country, and we refresh data of every plot of those 18 states every month. So that is, that accounts to 80% of the farmland and the 80% of the farmer, but we don't have the information who is the owner of that farm.”
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