In Oct 2022, EOSDA joined hands with TelOne Pvt (Limited) to announce a strategic partnership that will enable the former to enter into the smart agriculture sector and assist Zimbabwe’s government, farmers, and other players in the agricultural value chain, such as financial institutions in creating communities’ value and contributing to country’s economy.
In Oct 2022, AGDATA was purchased by Levine Leichtman Capital, thus enabling it to offer workflow solutions together with data within the agribusiness and animal health sectors.
Linux Foundation is partnering with CGIAR on a research initiative aiming at developing an open-source standard for sharing geospatial data about farms.
IBM announced its partnership with The Climate Corporation, a global technology solution provider–in March 2023. The collaboration focused on new IAAS that would specifically deal with data collection from various sources utilizing IBM Watson IoT platform. It is expected that this partnership between IBM and The Climate Corporation will help IMB enhance its agriculture offering portfolio.
In January 2023 Nutrien Ag Solutions announced their partnership with John Deere who are global farm equipment providers. This will help in optimizing logistics of both companies toward serving growers better as expected of them.
SAP Inc., which is a worldwide technology solution provider, declared its alliance with DeHaat Early this year. DeHaat plans to use SAP’s cloud enterprise ERP solution to provide comprehensive agricultural services throughout India. This initiative would increase DeHaat’s customer base thereby broadening its market reach.
Trimble Inc., one of the world’s largest agriculture analytical solutions providers recently launched Virtual Farm globally aimed at helping farmers identify common challenges through digital farms in February 2022. This move is part of Trimble’s efforts aimed at increasing its customer base through digitizing their products or solutions
Trimble Inc., which is among the leading global agricultural solution providers, launched Virtual Farm recently in February 2022. By using Trimble service lines like water management systems, the new virtual farm will help users deal with issues related to water management, input management among others.
April 2024
Cropin Technology, an agritech firm located in Bangaluru, has just announced the debut of 'akṣara', the first purpose-built open-source Micro Language Model (µ-LM) for climate-smart agriculture in the sector. This model is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and does not impose any restrictions.
On the basis of Mistral's foundational model, the micro language model was developed with the intention of addressing the challenges that are encountered by underserved farming communities in the Global South. This was accomplished by removing barriers to knowledge and empowering anyone involved in the agriculture ecosystem to construct AI solutions that are both cost-effective and scalable for the sector.