Digital Saathi

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Context

Cargill has launched 'Digital Saathi’ – a mobile-first, artificial-intelligence (AI)- based local online service platform.

About

Digital Saathi will provide digitally enabled agriculture advisory services and enhanced market access to smallholder farmers based in 5 districts of
Small and marginal farmers will gain easy access to multiple stakeholder such as peer farmers, Farmer Producing Companies, agri-suppliers, buyers, traders and processors.
Digital Saathi provides farmers with digital solutions like discussion forums and information on market price, weather forecasts, pre- to post-harvest and other related details.
The app will also feature Crop Input e-commerce and Crop Sell Offer to improve access to good quality crop inputs and enable market linkages between farmers and aggregators through the digitally enabled marketplace.

Significance

This is a step towards building a farmers' ecosystem, supporting them and increasing productivity and profitability
Digital Saathi will continue working with farmer needs in the region and collaborating with various stakeholders to bring in the best of innovations and solutions for the agriculture industry.

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