Google is making its Agricultural Understanding models available in public preview to developers, startups and researchers, part of a wider set of AI announcements in India covering agricultural research, farmer services, education and small businesses, Rural Voice reports.
The India-first models, built by Google's AnthroKrishi team, now provide insights for 11 countries. They are meant to support locally tailored solutions for farming problems and better services for smallholders.
In Gujarat, the technology company Amnex has built Google's agricultural model APIs into the state government's Krushi Pragati crop intelligence platform. Over the past year the platform has supported more than 900 million SMS advisories to over 600,000 farmers on crop and soil health, pests and diseases and weather, covering more than 14 million hectares. "Google's ALU and AMED models have helped solve this challenge, providing validated, real-time, parcel-level intelligence," said Nirav Shah, chief executive of AMNEX Infotech, adding that the platform had also helped farmers' access to credit.
Google is also working with OpenAgriNet, a coalition seeded and led by the EkStep Foundation, on analytics tools for administrators that bring scattered farm information onto one platform in users' own languages.
The announcements, presented by Preeti Lobana, Google India's vice president and country manager, and Lila Ibrahim, Google's global chief AI readiness officer, also include the open sorghum genetic atlas with ICRISAT reported earlier this week and a three-year Google DeepMind postdoctoral fellowship at ICRISAT, its first in India, for genome tools in chickpea, groundnut and pigeon pea. Beyond farming, Google.org is committing $15 million to The/Nudge for AI tools that improve small businesses' access to credit and markets.
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Source: Rural Voice
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