Since its inception, Wadhwani AI’s key focus space has been agriculture. India’s estimated six million cotton farmers face the fixed danger of extreme crop harm, inflicted by pests equivalent to pink bollworms and American bollworms. Small farmers in India, and worldwide, rely closely on authorities and nonprofit applications for recommendation on what to do at each step of the crop cycle. By utilizing AI to enhance human capabilities and overcome systemic challenges in these large-scale applications, Wadhwani AI is working to enhance the lives of farmers.
Wadhwani AI was additionally awarded a $2 million Google.org grant in 2019 to assist the CottonAce AI-powered pest administration resolution. With an easy-to-use, multilingual interface, the CottonAce app helps farmers to establish the sorts of pests at their farms, provides early warnings and advisories to farmers and allows them to take motion to fight infestation and guarantee a wholesome crop yield. Outside of the advantages straight associated to the answer, the deployment of CottonAce over the previous few years has resulted in an elevated consciousness of trap-based pest administration, and farmers changing into extra accustomed to a technology-based method to agriculture.
“With roughly half of India’s population dependent on agriculture for their livelihood, this is a sector where technological advancements can lead to pervasive benefits. We’re therefore happy to announce a new 1 million dollar grant to Wadhwani AI via Google.org to support their deployment of AI-based solutions to improve agricultural outcomes,” stated Manish Gupta, analysis director, Google Research India.
Shekar Sivasubramanian, CEO, Wadhwani AI, stated, “creating and deploying efficient AI options requires expertise in working within the discipline with the communities most affected by the issues we are attempting to handle. Ensuring that our options attain these communities and create a significant impression at scale is barely doable by working intently with the federal government, and thru assist from our donors. The Google.org grant will assist to establish and handle a number of challenges affecting agriculture in India by means of the usage of well timed and efficient AI-based interventions.”
The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is an impartial nonprofit institute creating and deploying AI-based options for under-served communities in creating nations. Wadhwani AI is at present constructing options within the agriculture and healthcare domains.
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