Leveraging AI to maximize India’s Agriculture output

Agriculture plays a huge role in shaping the national economy by contributing ~16% to India’s GDP with 44% of the total workforce employed in it. Despite being an agrarian economy and a top producer and exporter of several agricultural commodities, India faces multiple challenges.However, the increased government support, growing AgriTech providers, start-up ecosystem and rising digital adoption among rural farming population is providing a strong transformation impetus to the Indian agriculture sector. The objective of this report is to uncover opportunities for the Indian agricultural sector by leveraging the potential of Artificial Intelligence.