The Weather Company, An IBM Business, Hosts AgriTech Challenge 2018

#News(AgriTech) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]

The Weather Company, an IBM business, held a first-of-its-kind event titled The AgriTech Challenge 2018 in Mumbai on 13 June 2018 to find solutions to transform the lives of over three million Indian farmers. The event was held in association with the Agripreneurs Group, SMART AGRIPOST and Graype.in.

The event saw participation from many noted names in the agri-tech ecosystem with agronomists, insurers, bankers, entrepreneurs, influencers, global investors and researchers coming together to discuss some of the pressing challenges affecting the community. Around 180 delegates, including an enterprising group of agripreneurs — keen on leveraging the power of IoT and data science to drive innovation at the grassroots level — came together to power agritech innovations. Delegates from The Weather Company pitched how to leverage the power of weather data in platforms to transform the lives of over 3 million farmers in India.

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The Problem Statements Were:

 Cracking evapotranspiration to optimise irrigation, soil and plant health
 Combating the second largest cause of 35 percent crop loss
 Reverse engineering the supply chain to find profits
 Bringing visibility and certainty to mitigate risk at all levels

Speakers Explored How To Leverage Data-driven Insights For Agriculture