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Digital Saathi          

24th September, 2021

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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.

 

Read:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/cargill-launches-digital-sathi-a-mobile-first-local-online-service-platform/articleshow/86454028.cms