Cropin's AI-powered platform offers a comprehensive solution for the vegetable seed industry, addressing the critical need for a reliable crop forecasting system.
About
Cropin is a global ag-ecosystem intelligence provider. Cropin’s suite of products enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem, including financial services providers, to adopt and drive digital strategy across their agricultural operations. Using cutting-edge technology like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and remote sensing, Cropin creates an intelligent, interconnected data platform. Cropin helps organizations digitize their operations from farm to fork and leverage near real-time farm data and actionable insights to make effective decisions.
Cropin has partnered with over 250+ organizations globally to digitize over 16 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 7 million farmers while building intelligence for over 500 crops and over 10,000 crop varieties in over 103 countries. The solutions offered by Cropin are crop and geo-location agnostic and are available in a plug-and-play model.
Key Benefits
Cropin has combined 12+ years of expertise in the global Agri industry to build Cropin Cloud - a multi-tenant, secure, scalable, flexible, and intelligent agriculture cloud platform.
With this first-of-its-kind industry platform, we aim to provide a complete set of agriculture-specific capabilities with the specific intention of helping accelerate business growth and bring about a rapid and far-reaching digital transformation across the agri-ecosystem.
Cropin's AI-powered platform offers a comprehensive solution for the vegetable seed industry, addressing the critical need for a reliable crop forecasting system as sought by Hort Innovation. The platform is built to ingest a multiverse of data, and dynamically host it, overlaying it with geospatial and temporal contexts. It leverages advanced data analytics, AI, and machine learning to provide accurate, timely, and actionable predictions for vegetable seed production. This includes farm-level intelligence hyper-tuned for each variety and geographic location, along with regional analysis of yields and acreages.
Specifically, Cropin's platform provides hyper-configurable data ingestion tools like CropinGrow and CropinConnect, enabling real-time data collection and contextualization from multiple sources. It offers Data as a Service (DaaS), which includes weather and satellite data for insights into production conditions and Models as a Service which includes AI/ML models for crop stage analysis, health monitoring, and disease early warnings.
Furthermore, the GenAI powered Business Intelligence synthesizes all the data and provides conversational insights to support quick decision making. These capabilities directly support better planning, risk management, and industry sustainability for seed organizations.
Cropin’s Applications Suite enables digital transformation at scale across agriculture and allied industries, including forestry, commodity, banking, and insurance: They enable a range of use cases such as global farming operations management, food safety measures, supply chain visibility, predictability and risk management, farm-to-fork traceability, farmer enablement and engagement, advance seed R&D, trialing, production management and multi-generational seed traceability. Cropin Apps also helps agribusinesses adopt, monitor, and measure the impact of Climate Smart and Regenerative Agriculture practices, crop protection and nutrition management on/off the field, and monitoring and managing deforestation and carbon emissions. Cropin Digitization Apps are as follows:
Cropin Grow (SmartFarm+) - Cropin Grow is a farm digitization and business intelligence solution. It is the most configurable, adaptable, integrable farm management and monitoring platform for efficiency, predictability & sustainability, which maximizes per-acre value. Cropin Grow is a complete Farm ERP & CRM suite that seamlessly monitors and manages farms. It is Cropin’s flagship solution, has been deployed in over 92 countries, and is a testament to its versatility and impact.
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Cropin Intelligence:
As part of the Intelligence platform, Cropin's 22 contextual deep-learning and AI models will help agribusinesses with intelligence around crop detection, crop stage identification, yield estimation, irrigation scheduling, pest and disease prediction, nitrogen uptake, water stress detection, harvest date estimation, and change detection, among other things. Built using the world's largest crop knowledge graph, these field-tested models have been deployed globally and fine-tuned for specific crop varieties, conditions, and locations.
AI/ML based Plot Intelligence
Cropin Plot Intelligence provides granular and actionable insights at a plot level to help improve farm operations & profitability. It provides plot-level intelligence irrespective of the scale of operations covering yield estimation, crop stage, crop health, harvest date prediction and weather insights. It enables you to make data-driven decisions remotely based on near real-time insights.
Important features of Regional Intelligence are:
- Yield Estimation
- Crop Health- Crop Greenness, Nitrogen Uptake, Water Stress
- Crop Stage Identification
- Disease Early Warning System (DEWS)
- Irrigation Advisory
- Weather Advisory
Regional Intelligence
Regional Intelligence (SmartRisk) is an AI-powered risk mitigation solution for agricultural loans and crop insurance. Regional Intelligence uses insights from satellite imaging, field sensors, and ground truth to provide forecast modeling and near real-time insights that help establish historical farm field performance, improve yield, minimize crop losses, gain insight into water stress, and much more.
Important features of Regional Intelligence are:
- Crop and location-independent AI model
- Historical data insights at plot and PIN level
- Business intelligence based on NDVI, NDRE, Leaf Area Index, etc.
- Water Stress Assessment
- Relative Growth Index for Benchmarking
- Predictive modeling for yield, disease, weather, and harvest date estimation
- Interactive dashboard for business intelligence & reporting
Cropin’s Capability and Interventions
In the digital era, data has emerged as the foundation for transformative change across industries, and agriculture is no exception. However, the true value of data lies not merely in its collection but in its processing and conversion into actionable insights. Cropin’s Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) capability is designed to provide organizations with precision insights by leveraging pre-configured pipelines, advanced data sources, and derived indices that correlate better with the crop ontology. With access to a vast array of weather, satellite, and field-level data, Cropin enables stakeholders to make informed, timely decisions that optimize productivity, sustainability, and profitability.
Applications
Cropin is not merely a participant in the 'Ag-intelligence' movement; we are spearheading it through strategic partnerships with over 250 B2B customers. Cropin has digitized 30 million acres of farmlands, positively impacting over 7 million farmers worldwide. Our crop knowledge graph, spanning 350 crops and 10,000 varieties in 103 countries, powers the Cropin Cloud in providing predictive intelligence for over 200 million acres of farmland globally. Cropin is at the forefront of uniting agribusinesses, development agencies, international organizations, and governments in leveraging Agtech systems to transform global food systems and attain climate goals.
Challenges plaguing seed companies:
- Grading seed varieties
- Ensuring data accuracy before the seed multiplication stage
- Seed traceability and certifications
- On ground fleet management
- Demand forecasting and go-to-market
- Farmer literacy and engagement