New initiative to support Cropin to develop a Food Security Decision Intelligence solution powered by AWS AI technologies, to track crop cultivation, production patterns, and climate change
Cropin Technology, a global Agtech leader enabling intelligent agriculture, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Private Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focused on enabling Cropin to build a solution to address the pressing issue of global hunger and food insecurity.
Through the development of core data architecture, analytics, modeling, and simulation components, this program seeks to assist Cropin in creating a single solution that can combine global farmland data with more comprehensive climatic knowledge. Governments, development organizations, and agribusinesses will benefit from the solution’s decision intelligence, which will assist them guarantee food security for vulnerable groups.
The partnership bolsters Cropin’s dedication to facilitating predictable, traceable, and sustainable global food systems and supports AWS Impact Computing’s food security initiatives, which seek to find viable solutions that can enhance the quality of life for people, other animals, and natural environments.
Speaking on the announcement, Krishna Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, Cropin said, “We can analyze and identify changes in cultivation patterns at a country scale, spanning from sowing to harvesting. This includes examining weather parameters, moisture availability, and disease outbreaks at scale to understand their impact on crop health and yield. These insights are crucial for policymakers, enabling them to make informed decisions to combat hunger and ensure food security. Our collaboration with AWS marks a significant step towards building a global real-time decision intelligence solution, which will provide insights into several aspects of food security – agriculture, climate, trade, and supply chain – in one dashboard. This engagement with AWS helps us showcase the use of technology, data, and AI to solve these pressing issues.”
As part of this project, Cropin will create workloads that may potentially make up an AWS-powered Food Security Decision Intelligence system. AWS’s cutting-edge computing capabilities, such as High Performance Computing (HPC), modeling and simulation, the internet of things (IoT), robotics, visual and spatial computing, and generative artificial intelligence (AI), would be utilised in the solution.
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In order to provide precise and detailed crop yield intelligence for the most significant food crops globally—rice, wheat, potatoes, and maize—it will initially combine Cropin’s deep domain expertise in agriculture, earth observation sciences, data science, AI/ML, and deep learning models. These crops together account for more than half of the world’s food requirements.
Shalini Kapoor, Director and Chief Technologist, AWS India Private Limited, said, “The world population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 20501, increasing food production requirements on the arable land available today. At AWS, we are inspired to work with customers to solve the most complex challenges at scale. Our work with Cropin showcases the power of advanced compute capabilities on the cloud to drive social and environmental impact. AWS’s generative AI, simulation, and data analytics technologies can help organisations like Cropin surface actionable and relevant insights from diverse data sets, and scale their solution globally to empower decision makers to reduce food insecurity.”
About Cropin
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a global Agtech leader. Cropin Cloud, the world’s first industry cloud for agriculture, empowers stakeholders to make informed decisions that enhance farming efficiency, productivity, and sustainability through digital technologies and predictive intelligence.
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