Industry
Agritech
Software for agribusinesses that buy from, lend to and advise thousands of farmers. Most agribusiness in India runs through a chain of farmers, FPOs, aggregators, mandis and processors, with cash, credit and quality decided at every hand-off. Software earns its place where it records what happened at the farm gate, keeps procurement and payments honest, and reaches farmers on the phone they already use, in their own language.
- Farmer producer organisations (FPOs)
- Agri input companies (seeds, fertiliser, crop protection)
- Procurement and aggregation businesses
- Food processors and exporters
- Dairy and poultry cooperatives
- Agri lending and crop insurance partners
The pressure points
What slows agritech teams down
- Farm gate data is thin
- Procurement is weighed, graded and paid at collection centres with a register and a calculator. Disputes over moisture, grade and deductions are settled by memory.
- Farmers are hard to reach well
- Many farmers use a basic Android phone, read Gujarati, Hindi or Marathi, and prefer voice. A polished English app goes unused after the first week.
- Traceability is asked for, rarely kept
- Exporters and organic buyers want lot level records back to the plot. Those records usually live in field officers' notebooks.
- Seasonal, cash-heavy operations
- Volumes spike for a few weeks at harvest. Systems, staff and working capital all have to scale up quickly and then wind down.
Systems this sector runs on
The software we build and connect
Each of these can be built new, extended from what you already use, or connected to your existing ERP and accounting.
- Procure to Pay and Vendor ManagementProcurementFarm gate and mandi purchase with weighbridge readings, quality deductions, rates by grade and same day payment to farmer bank accounts.
- Supply Chain and Warehouse ManagementSupply chain and WMSLot wise stock across collection centres, cold rooms and warehouses, with shrinkage and moisture loss tracked by store.
- Dealer and Distributor Management SystemDealer and distributorInput companies sell through village retailers and distributors. Orders, schemes, credit limits and secondary sales need one record.
- Customer Relationship ManagementCRMFarmer registry with land, crops, sowing dates and advisory history, shared by field officers, agronomists and the call centre.
- Enterprise Resource PlanningERPAccounts, GST, inventory valuation and FPO member ledgers, often alongside Tally for statutory books.
- Business Intelligence and Management DashboardsBI and dashboardsProcurement by village and grade, collection centre performance and price trends for the buying team.
Built for this sector
Systems specific to agritech
The work that generic software does not cover, and where most of the value sits.
- Collection centre app
- Works offline, reads the weighing scale over Bluetooth, records moisture and grade, prints or WhatsApps a receipt and syncs when the network returns.
- Plot and crop registry
- Geo-tagged farm boundaries, crop calendars and input use by plot, which feeds traceability, advisory and crop loan checks.
- Lot traceability
- A lot code that follows produce from plot to collection centre, warehouse, processing batch and dispatch, with residue test reports attached.
- Advisory and outreach
- Crop stage advisories pushed on WhatsApp and IVR, with replies routed to an agronomist and logged against the farmer.
Where AI helps
AI use cases with a clear return
Voice advisory in local languages
Farmers ask questions by voice in Gujarati or Hindi. An assistant answers from your agronomy content and hands harder cases to an agronomist.
Advice reaches more farmers without adding call centre seats
Crop photo triage
A photo of a leaf or pest is matched against known problems and routed with a suggested diagnosis for an agronomist to confirm.
Faster first response during pest outbreaks
Arrival and price forecasting
Forecasts of arrivals and mandi prices by commodity and district, using past arrivals, sowing data and weather.
Better timing for procurement and stock release
Reading handwritten records
Field registers and collection slips are photographed and turned into structured entries for review.
Paper records become searchable without a data entry drive
Quality grading support
Images of grain or produce samples are scored for visible defects to support the grader's call.
Fewer grading disputes at the collection centre
What your team would see
- Procured this week
- 1,240 t
- Farmers paid same day
- 91%
- Average moisture deduction
- 2.4%
- Open grading disputes
- 18
Daily arrivals (tonnes)
Procurement against target by district
- Rajkot88
- Junagadh74
- Amreli66
- Bhavnagar52
- Morbi41
A sample of the kind of dashboard we build for this sector. Figures are illustrative.
Connects with
- Tally
- Weighbridges and digital scales
- UPI and bank payout APIs
- WhatsApp Business
- IVR and SMS gateways
- Weather data services
- eNAM and mandi price feeds
- Soil and residue testing labs
Rules we design for
- DPDP Act
- State APMC Acts
- FSSAI regulations
- Seeds Act 1966
- Insecticides Act 1968
- Fertiliser Control Order 1985
Typical stack
Before you start
Agritech: common questions
Will the field app work where there is no network?
Yes. Collection centre and field apps store entries on the phone and sync when a connection returns. We test on the low cost Android phones your staff actually carry.
Can farmers use it without installing an app?
Usually the farmer side runs on WhatsApp and IVR, with receipts, advisories and payment alerts there. Only staff and field officers need an app.
We already run Tally. Do we need an ERP?
Often not at first. We build procurement, stock and farmer records, and post vouchers into Tally so your accountant keeps working as before.
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