With the steeply increasing global population, the pressure on land, especially when it comes to agriculture has reached a tipping point. Overuse of underground water and land abuse is further reducing availability of cultivable land. Given this reality there is a grave need for each country to manage food security. Research and tech enabled advancements in agriculture have shown amazing results in the developed nations. This technology now needs to pervade into the developing nations like India who is primed to become the most populous nation soon. Agritechs in India and elsewhere have risen to this challenge and developed IoT sensor based solutions that help farmers improve yield, reduce labour and other resources while saving water with precision irrigation automation.

cultYvate provides IoT and Remote sensing based precision analytics to farmer. They offer a full stack digitisation platform including hardware and software for Irrigation, Fertigation and Playhouse Automation.

Key Features include
 
Measuring soil moisture- With cultYvate’s smart irrigation farming installed, a farmer can stay far away and still receive soil moisture alerts on their phone. As the smart electronic valves, water meters and soil sensors work in tandem, the system can sense soil moisture and decide the requirement of watering in the farmland.

Tracking water used- Irrigation control can be both manual and automated depending on the farmer’s requirement.Small holder farmers receive SMS alerts on their feature phones to start or stop irrigation based on the soil moisture levels on the farmers farmland. Right amount of water is reducing fungal attacks on crops and needing fewer pesticide spray rounds. This is not only saving water but also reducing expenses but improving overall crop health and yield.

Different types of sensors –  a multitude of sensors to serve different needs can be deployed such as to sense volume of water flow , greenhouse gases, temperature , humidity, wind speed , rain fall and more. Sophisticated crop models can work with all these data points to arrive at irrigation schedules, predict yield and other SDG metrics

Listen to understand how cultyvate is making a difference to the small hold farmers in India.

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