– Agricultural AI pioneer Cropin announces the launch of ‘Cropin Ecosystem’
– AI-first digital platform combines expertise from Boston Consulting Group, Google, Planet Labs, IBM Weather, World Bank, EIT Food and more
– Adds further value to customer engagements including Walmart, PepsiCo
– Claims accuracy of more than 90%
Cropin, the world’s largest deployed AI platform for food and agriculture, has launched a unique agrifood ‘ecosystem’ to reduce the risks and uncertainties associated with one of the world’s most unpredictable yet vital industries.
Drawing on more than a decade of data collection and interpretation, Cropin Ecosystem connects agriculture and the digital world by combining disparate streams of data – from the field onwards – with artificial intelligence, allowing players within the food chain to mitigate agricultural and supply risks to build more predictable, resilient supply chains.
Krishna Kumar, CEO and Founder of Cropin
“Today’s threats are clear, but tomorrow’s are unknown. Cropin Ecosystem’s objective is to risk-proof the future of food, helping to ensure that our customers should never face large-scale business disruptions.
“This is as close as we can get to the mythical crystal ball of food production,” he adds, “creating a more predictable, food-secure future driven by intelligence.”
Kumar says Cropin Ecosystem will provide a plug-and-play model to help agri-food businesses at every stage in the chain better navigate the complex challenges of data interoperability, climate-change risks, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical uncertainties.
“These pressures are affecting the availability of fresh produce and agricultural commodities, operational margins, pricing strategies, growth opportunities and the ability to meet rising customer demand for sustainably produced food, all while complying with evolving traceability and sustainability regulations,” he points out.
The culmination of partnerships that Cropin has facilitated through its existing platforms, the system draws its inspiration from the Silicon Valley convergence model, uniting leading technology providers, strategic consulting, ERP integrations and satellite and weather intelligence partners into a single, intelligent platform that guarantees surety of supply and builds resilience across the food chain.
Cropin points to the model not only enabling businesses to focus on their core operations with confidence – with Cropin Ecosystem managing the complexity of upstream agricultural processes and supply chain uncertainties – but also offering customers the rich content, knowledge and services of technology and domain experts.
“Thanks to the robust ecosystem we’ve built with input from our partners, our hyper-tuned models consistently deliver accuracy of more than 90%,” Kumar says. “That can add real resilience to chains, countering the mounting pressures they face from climate change, pests, diseases, market fluctuations and sustainability demands.
“With our ecosystem we aim to change the rules of the game and create truly 21st-century food systems. Cropin Ecosystem enables agri-food companies to transform operations, with a plug-and-play model, within six months, demonstrating the power of AI-driven innovation,” he explains.
The ecosystem addresses these challenges through a variety of use cases, including AI-powered forecasting for surety of supply, market de-risking, climate-smart practices to build resilience and sustainability, and centralizing multi-source agri-data to break silos and drive growth. Meanwhile, strategic consulting and regional intelligence mitigate market and geopolitical risks, combining everything in a unified, user-friendly platform that strengthens farmer engagement and empowerment and makes farming more predictable and profitable.
“Solving complex challenges in agriculture – from climate volatility to supply chain risks – requires a pioneering, ecosystem approach,” says Sashikumar Sreedharan, the managing director of one of the Cropin Ecosystem partners, Google Cloud in India.
“Cropin’s vision in uniting the industry’s leaders and leveraging the power of Google Cloud and AI enables the transformation of data into predictive intelligence, ultimately creating an intelligent, resilient food system and driving sustainable outcomes at scale.”
Cropin expects to continue its momentum and expansion as further tech innovators come aboard, including AI players, IoT, drone and remote sensing providers, academia and research organizations, NGOs, and development agencies. Its goal is a collaborative network that accelerates innovation, addresses current vulnerabilities, and proactively tackles future challenges. The core belief behind this ecosystem is that food, feed, and fiber are non-negotiable, and no vulnerabilities should be allowed to disrupt this human-critical sector.
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For more information about Cropin Ecosystem: https://www.cropin.com/cropin-ecosystem/
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About Cropin
Founded in 2010, Cropin is the world’s largest deployed AI platform for food and agriculture, helping agri-food businesses and multilateral organizations transform food production at scale.
Cropin collaborates with global leaders in CPG, food retail, finance, development agencies, and governments to tackle challenges such as food insecurity, the growing demand for sustainably produced food, climate change impacts, and supply chain disruptions. As a pioneer in the agri-intelligence movement, Cropin has partnered with over 100 B2B customers, digitizing 30 million acres of farmland and positively impacting more than 7 million farmers worldwide. Its crop knowledge graph, covering 400 crops and 10,000 varieties across 103 countries, powers the Cropin Cloud. With intelligence built around over 1 billion acres of the world’s cultivable land, Cropin continues to lead the transformation of global food systems.