Thursday, 2 June 2022

Arya.ag acquires autonomous AI agritech player Prakshep

 Image 1 – (L-R) : Mr. Anand Chandra, ED & Co-founder,  Arya.ag ; Mr. Prasanna Rao, MD & Co-founder, Arya.ag & Mr. D. Chattanathan, Co-founder, Arya.ag.

Please also refer to key data points related to Arya.ag:

·         Arya.ag has complete visibility of agri-produce worth over USD 2 Bn.

·         Arya.ag provides supply assurance on its platform through a network of 10000 storage points

  • Enabling digital discovery of 10469 near-farm gate warehouses spread over 800 locations
  • Combined storage capacity of 36.5 million tonnes with a footprint of over 200 million sq. ft.
  • More than 8000 total sale listings by sellers
  • 1000+ successful trades effectively connecting sellers to buyers

·         Concluded over 350,000 tonnes of agri-commodity commerce  

Latest move enables Arya.ag to attain grain traceability from store to farm

 

India, June 2, 2022 — Arya.ag today announced the acquisition of agriculture data science company, Prakshep. With this acquisition, Arya reinforces its position as India’s largest integrated grain commerce platform and further its tech capabilities to provide end-to-end solutions to its users. This acquisition helps to bolster Arya’s vision of bringing cutting edge AI/ML capabilities to farm digitization, crop monitoring, quality assaying and surveillance. This acquisition will help Arya to further deepen its relationship with other agchain stakeholders like FPOs, processors and corporates, banks, and insurance companies.

Arya.ag connects sellers and buyers of agriproduce, providing complete assurance on quantity, quality and payments. The distinct digital offerings of Prakshep will add to Arya.ag’s deep tech capability to provide traceability, transparency, quality assurance for seamless commodity commerce.  Arya.ag will now hold the largest database in agriculture adding farm details including boundaries, crop activities, health and yield valuation to its existing repository of storage and grain value chain database.

Arya.ag is currently developing India’s first public agri blockchain ledger. Prakshep’s deeptech experience and expertise will add further farm level integration and preload extensive historical farm activity data to Arya.ag’s blockchain ledger. Arya.ag promises to provide complete visibility and traceability of the commodity right from the producers’ field and build complete assurance for all stakeholders in the agri-value chain.

Arya.ag aims to strengthen its relationship with its existing base of almost a million farmers and 500 FPOs by providing farm assessment and crop health monitoring via AI integration, remote sensing, and satellite imaging. Prakshep’s acquisition also aligns with Arya’s focus on Climate smart agricultural models with reduced Carbon footprint. Prakshep’s models have facilitated a 45% reduction in crop damage, 40% reduction in use of chemicals, 35% reduction in water usage and a 30% fall in GHG emissions. Climate smart agriculture is pertinent to the challenges of food security and climate change and the partnership between Arya.ag and Prakshep can offer smart and scalable solutions to reimagine the agricultural ecosystem.

Prasanna Rao, Arya.ag’s MD & Co-founder said, “Leveraging our technology stack, we have already created a digital identity for over 10000 warehouses across India on Arya.ag and have built in transparency at all levels from aggregation to storage, finance, and commerce. Under this context, Prakshep’s tech-led proposition finds a natural fit as it enables a digital identity for every grain that traverses the value chain and builds in transparency in terms of where it was grown and the journey it has made. The aligned values of sustainability, climate smart agriculture and inclusive economic growth has brought us together.”

Avijeet Singh, Prakshep’s CEO commented, “The transformation brought about by digital technologies in the conventional agriculture ecosystem while seemingly overwhelming has just scratched the surface. Arya as a market leader provides us with an opportunity to create an impact in the lives of our small holder farmers on a much larger scale and value. Through this partnership, we will be able to provide our users many more new offerings based on data, scientific research and analytics creating trust and transparency in all our transactions.”

ABOUT ARYA.AG

Arya.ag, India’s largest and fastest-growing integrated grain commerce that eliminates the trust deficit in the grain commerce value chain through its disruptive integrated PAN India platform that delivers value to all stakeholders by enabling access to high-quality produce, products, and

services. Powered by an exponentially growing layer of visibility and control currently stretching across 425 districts in 21 states, 10,000 warehouses and USD 2 billion of grain, Arya.ag offers the assurance of quality supply to buyers and on-time fair payment for their produce and allied services to seller. It seamlessly embeds finance to maximize value for both sellers and buyers and the platform facilitates over USD 700 Mn of finance annually. More at www.arya.ag

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