By Vivek Lalan, Head of Insurance, nurture.farm Weather is one of the most unpredictable and uncontrollable inputs for agriculture. Unseasonal heavy rains, hailstorms, spells of drought, and loss of production due to crop diseases make agricultural outputs highly volatile, resulting in fluctuating farm incomes. …

By Nagesh K M, Principal Product Manager, nurture.farm A technology-enabled aggregation platform that brings together Agriculture Machinery Banks (AMBs), Custom Hiring Centres (CHCs), regional/state service centres and individual owners of machinery and supports the cost-effective promotion of shared utility can bring about effective farm mechanisation and help in real-time demand-supply…

By Rizwan Hashim, Principal Product Manager at nurture.farm Introduction Agricultural inputs, typically used at the beginning of the farming cycle, are important to determine the yield and quality of the final output of the crop. Agri inputs can be primarily classified into these different categories.

By Harsh Vardhan, Technical Lead at nurture.farm They say “necessity is the mother of invention”. Laminar is our invention born out of necessity. The first order of business for the engineering team at nurture.farm was to decide on a tech stack that suits our domain. In the agricultural domain, we…

By Nagesh K M, Principal Product Manager, nurture.farm In a recent blog, we learned about some of the current opportunities for building technology-led solutions in agriculture in rural India. In this blog, I will share my perspective on some of the key technology-led enablers and business opportunities that we are…

By Dr. Mitali Chandnani, Senior GIS Engineer, nurture.farm “Whatever you see in the field is the actual truth, but if you have to cover thousands and tens of thousands and lakhs of acres, it’s not always possible to check the burnt or unburnt status of every field. Remote sensing uses…

Nearly 1/2 of all fruit and vegetables produced globally are wasted each year — UN Source: Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Goal 12 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns reflects the increased global awareness of food…

The Importance of Food Traceability in Agriculture According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and the second-largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit and cotton. Home to vast agro-ecological diversity, the country is also one of…

Named after the area in Delhi where the institute that developed it — the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) — is located, the PUSA bio-decomposer softens hard crop stubble into compost in 20–25 days that can be easily mixed with the soil in the field. The microbial consortium of eight…