An advisory service led by ICRISAT, Self Help Africa and Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture gives farmers crop- and site-specific fertilizer recommendations; one farmer cut her fertilizer use by 67%.
CropsA low over the Bay of Bengal could become a cyclone within 72 hours and strike India's east coast on 27-28 October; with heavy rain likely in Bangladesh from 27 October to 2 November, farmers are advised to harvest ripe paddy, delay seedbeds and drain their fields.
AgrotechGoogle has put its India-built Agricultural Understanding models into public preview for developers and researchers, and says a Gujarat state platform using them has sent more than 900 million SMS advisories to over 600,000 farmers.
CropsThe International Rice Research Institute and Wadhwani AI have signed an agreement to build and field-test AI tools, including pest and disease diagnosis in IRRI's PaddyMitra chatbot, for rice farmers in India.
AgrotechIIT Ropar's ANNAM.AI, NIC Punjab and the Punjab State Farmers' and Farm Workers' Commission have signed an MoU to bring AI-driven, multilingual farm advice to farmers through channels that already exist.
AgrotechVenture capitalist Hemendra Mathur argues that voice-based AI advisers on toll-free lines have reached millions of Indian farmers, and that small, crop-tuned language models wired into public digital infrastructure will serve them better than large ones.
CropsA dry room, pallets off the floor, no hooks when handling, protection from moisture, careful stacking and first-in, first-out use: advice on cutting fertiliser waste.
The Kenya Meteorological Service Authority, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the AIM4Scale partnership have launched a pilot to turn new rainy-season onset and six-week forecasts into planting advice ahead of the 2026 short rains.
