SecuFarm is the world’s first smart & sustainable farming solution that provides a guaranteed income to the farmers.
What is SecuFarm?
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Why SecuFarm?
Benefits of SecuFarm
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Enhanced Yield
SecuFarm helps farmers enhance crop yield. Information is gathered using IoT Sensors (AWS, AIS, APM, & ASM), satellites & drones, and GPS-enabled smartphones. This information is processed using Big Data Analysis, Machine Learning, & Image Processing techniques to provide weather & disease alerts, farm advisory, and farm management inputs to the farmers through mobile application & SMS.
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Guaranteed Income
SecuFarm helps the farmers ensure crop protection and secure a better yield. Should the farmers fall short of meeting the expected amount of yield, they are guaranteed a minimum farm income which aids in compensation payouts.
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Sustainable Farming
SecuFarm helps farmers undertake sustainable farming, i.e., environment-friendly farming by providing guidance on how to optimally use water and agricultural chemicals.
How Farmers Experience SecuFarm
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Farmer enrols with WRMS to create a SecuFarm.
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Geo-tagged farms are analysed to offer the farmers income guarantee against a fee based on soil, water, & climatic conditions.
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Farmer has to follow a smart and sustainable farming plan called the Package of Practices (PoP) which assures yield.
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After yield assessment, the farmer is compensated if the yield is below the assured yield despite following the PoP.
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WRMS monitors the on-ground situation using satellites & IoT and accordingly provides real-time assistance.
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WRMS forecasts pest attacks, diseases, and weather risk to provide risk management inputs.
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WRMS assists in selling the produce to modern trade who value sustainable farming practices and give a better price.
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With a guaranteed income, farmers feel confident to invest in smart farming technology and get enhanced productivity.
Multi-Stakeholder Proposition
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Key Features
- WRMS’s on-ground team geo-tags the farms
- Soil is analysed in privately-owned soil testing labs to identify the necessary nutrients that the soil lacks
- Based on the market demand assessment, the best seed variety for higher market price is identified
- Water hardness is measured and an optimal water demand is assessed
- Satellites, drones, and IoT sensors are used to monitor the geo-tagged farms
- Data captured is analysed using image processing and AI / ML to generate forecasts & alerts for weather, pests, and crop diseases
- Timely alerts, farm advisory, crop stress status, & soil management protocols are shared on the SecuFarm mobile application & SMSs in vernacular languages
- Farmers are provided access to machinery, i.e mechanized planters & harvesters for reducing time & improving efficiency
- Automatic Weather Station (AWS): Helps in generating weather forecasts using grid-level data captured for the following parameters:
- Air Temperature
- Relative Humidity
- Precipitation & Hailstorms
- Wind Speed & Direction
- Solar Radiation
- Barometric Pressure
- Evaporation
- Soil Moisture
- Automatic Pest Monitor (APM): Monitors all kind of pests and provides the pest density remotely by attracting the pest & capturing the images
- Automatic Soil Moisture (ASM) sensor: Provides real-time analysis of the soil health – soil moisture, physical properties, structure, and nutrient contents of soil – of a particular area
Remote sensing technology helps to remotely monitor the crop health by capturing, storing, manipulating, analyzing, managing, and presenting spatial or geographic data related to:
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI)
AI technology & deep learning is applied on historical data of weather, yield, etc to provide estimated values of present data wherever other sensors are unable to capture real-time data
- Hotbeds of pests are identified using historical data of pesticide sales, pest outbreak, and conducive weather conditions
- Wind-based migration of pests is tracked using AWSs
- Electronic pest traps are deployed at the farms to capture the live pest data
Using a combination of IoT devices, farmers can use the water optimally, thus preventing water table depletion, soil erosion, and crop damage.
- Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) help in forecasting rainfall
- Automatic Soil Moisture (ASM) sensors provide real-time soil moisture data
- Automatic Irrigation Switches (AISs) help farmers to remotely control the irrigation pump
- GPS-enabled live-tracking of spraying & harvesting pattern of the field and monitoring speed, flow-rate , & pressure
- Dashboard for viewing reports to track the proper utilization of machines
- Logistics Management System for market linkages using IoT and blockchain architecture
- Traceability solutions using QR coding & blockchain architecture
Assistance in gradation, packaging, storing, logistics, and getting best market prices
Our Happy Clients
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SecuFarm Success Stories
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Background
Late Blight is a lethal potato disease. In 2006 PepsiCo contract farmers lost 60 % of their crops due to this bane. It was difficult to extend cover under existing Crop Insurance programs due to moral hazard.
What we did
- Analyzed & found high correlations between location, humidity, and temperature.
- Created an index to cover blight risk specific to the region
- Installed weather stations to minimize basic risk; critical for extending this kind of cover
Impact
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Successfully ran the project for 10+ years
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Covered 10000+ potato farmers
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Enabled risk-free investment of small & marginal farmers in smart technology
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Demonstrated how insurance can be used by contract farming companies to sustain their farmer base