: IIT Duo Help 30 Lakh Farmers Get Timely Expert Advice on Crop, Increase Income Yield #IndiaNEWS #Agriculture In this year’s Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the Union

IIT Duo Help 30 Lakh Farmers Get Timely Expert Advice on Crop, Increase Income Yield #IndiaNEWS #Agriculture
In this year’s Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the Union government will promote kisan drones, chemical-free natural farming, and public-private partnerships for timely delivery of digital and high-tech services to farmers. (Image above Left to Right: Karan Chawla, Ashish Mishra, Pankaj Tripathi, Siddhant Bhomia)
One platform that can assist in this regard is the Krishi Network, founded by IIT-Kharagpur alumni Ashish Mishra and Siddhant Bhomia. This platform seeks to ease accessibility of critical information for farmers, which enables them to generate higher profits.
Providing a mix of online and offline support, the platform, which is run by their Delhi-based venture Cultino Agrotech Pvt Ltd, has also on-boarded agri-brands, agri-input merchants, and other stakeholders in the agricultural supply chain. Facilitating all this work online is the Krishi Network app, currently available in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, and English.
“We help farmers by reliably connecting them to experts and other agri-businesses beyond their local area, providing them information and accessibility to such technology. Since Krishi Network is a complete technology driven agri-supply chain, it’s also helping farmers connect with input brands, merchants, buyers of produce, and lenders,??? Ashish Mishra tells The Better India.
The platform is currently connected to 30 lakh farmers. With a presence in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, it provides technical advisory for “making critical farm decisions via experienced and trusted farmers???. The company offers ‘15-minute answers’ for questions around any agricultural service, which is made possible through more than 8,000 experts registered on their platform.
Small town aspirations
Born in a small town called Shikohabad near Agra, Ashish grew up in a household where his father was in government service while his mother took care of affairs at home. Graduating from IIT-Kharagpur in computer science engineering in 2009, he would go on to gain extensive experience in software development in companies like Shiksha. com. After his stint there, he worked in various marketing and product roles at MyGola and Healthians.
Meanwhile, Siddharth was born and raised in Gwalior and graduated from IIT-Kharagpur in 2010. Before launching Krishi Network in 2019, he spent nine years working in a variety of roles across ventures like Fractal Analytics, PwC India and Innovaccer. “In 2017 when rural internet penetration started taking off, we saw a major opportunity to inspire, educate, and enable farmers to adopt change of practices to increase income,??? says Ashish.

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