Strengthening food quality management with digital technologies Digital transparency in the agriculture ecosystem is still in its infancy, majorly due to low penetration of technology-led interventions across value chains. It’s estimated that around 18-40% of the data generated has an element of error as it is manually collected and is riddled with human biases. This […]
AgNext: Using AI to solve purchase quality issues for agribusinesses Presently, global agri-trade is a by-product of quantity and quality. While quantity has uniformity all over the world, when it comes to quality it still has to grow its green shoots. Purchase quality of food commodities directly impacts the measure of financial transactions in agricultural […]
Moisture in Grains The agricultural industry is one of the most complex and most significant sectors worldwide. As the market trends and demand for this sector are also highly dynamic, it becomes adamant for agribusinesses to maintain the quality, quantity, durability, and affordability of all commodities across the food value chain. Although several factors need […]
The agriculture sector has different layers in the supply chain, from farmers to consumers. However, the procurement process in the agriculture supply chain involves layers like quality assessment, supplier management, logistics, payments, business intelligence & various other data-oriented activities. As procurement lies in the frontline for agribusinesses, its evolution has become quite crucial for informed […]
It is the prevalent trade practice to surreptitiously enhance the relative weight of a green product, be it the leafy vegetables or a tea pluck by interspersing it with oodles of water. The interspersion enhances the volume of the commodity and it is done by the seller or the grower for a better price realization. […]
India is one of the biggest exporters of spice to most of the major developed countries of the world. As the composition and the construct of spices is what command the price of spice, it has a value chain that is highly evolved and traverses across diversified nodes. There are four nodes of the value […]
For the tea industry, dominated by small growers, the introduction of AI has been on a very low keel. However, AgNext in 2018 changed the paradigm for the tea industry through an AI based application called TragNext and a pilot was set up in association with Tea Research Association to bring about qualitative improvements in […]
Staple commodities like rice, wheat, groundnut, etc., are grown once in a year and stored for ensuring food supply and food safety all across the world. The storage practices or the mechanism of food grain warehousing is still an admixture of traditional practices and infusion of modern mechanisms. As an outcome of the admixture of […]
The season for paddy procurement has begun at most of the places with the harvest of the paddy crop for the current Rabi season. But would the paradigm for procurement of paddy change during the current season, more so keeping in view the fact that the APMC act has been amended and it is not […]
Today is the World Food Day and on this monumental day moving away from the traditional paradigm associated with Food for feeding the hungry, let us create a new paradigm- a paradigm of ensuring quality Food for everyone so that from filling the belly we move to a new proposition of filling it with quality […]
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