AgNext: Enabling poor farmers by innovating agricultural value chain
January 6, 2021AgNext innovates agricultural value chains with technologies that digitizes food quality and safety and provides end-to-end commodity traceability. The company applies computer vision, spectral analytics and internet-of things to instantly analyze and produce results for food quality (physical, chemical and ambient) to ensure effective trade, production, warehousing and consumption.
The AgNext platform provides meticulous analysis with artificial intelligence and advanced data sciences, to evolve quality assessment processes in agribusinesses which refer to the current problems of the sector, mainly related to quality evaluation, such as vulnerability towards possibility of human error, sparse speed, besides poor standardization and reliability of related results on the current used methods.
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Challenges faced by farmers due to less access to technology
∙ Inaccessibility of modern predictive technologies for farming to micro, small and medium scale farmers.
∙ Traditional food quality assessment which is either done based on human intuitions or in distant labs often leads to subjectivity & delay in decision making.
Agnext solving farmer troubles
AgNext is innovating digital intervention to solve agricultural issues by introducing a unique platform of hardware, software and analytics as a service. They are into making precision agriculture accessible and affordable to world’s agriculture community through various ICT based technological Innovations. They are also creating integrated hyper local farm data collection and crop analytics platform using latest technological innovations.
Technological solutions provided by Agnext
AgNext has built the world’s most futuristic platform using data sciences for instant, portable and accurate food assessments to undertake right financial decisions. This ecosystem has been developed on deep learning sciences and deeper understanding of business of food. The company’s chemical assessment technology has been trained using AI to analyse all chemical parameters of Grains, Oil Seeds, Pulses, Spices, Milk & Animal Feed. More so, AgNext’s physical assessment technology has been trained using AI to analyse physical parameters of commodities at fraction of a human assessment time. Furthermore, LORA WAN and IoT based food sensor networks have been built by AgNext to measure and predict when the food is losing its quality.
It uses 10 technology products and services including HTML5, Google Analytics, and jQuery, according to G2 Stack. Whereas according to BuiltWith, the company uses 6 technologies for its website including SPF, Google Apps for Business, and GoDaddy DNS. It is ranked 1,976,376 among websites globally based on its 4,205 monthly web visitors.
Value Proposition and Key Differentiator
∙ Portable and Field Ready: All the devices used are portable and field ready with cloud connectivity and transfer data while in sync
∙ Instant Results: The company’s slogan is “Less than 30 seconds” and most of the devices conform to the slogan.
∙ Addressing major commodities: AgNext addresses and has commodities such as Liquids, Powders, Grains, Leaves and Solids covered.
∙ Entire Results: It is the only platform that provides true physical and chemical quality checks on farm produce.
Future plans
AgNext aims to provide solutions to agribusinesses and create transparency within the agri-value chain by deploying rapid data technologies with deep agronomic insights. The company is keen to hear and work with various agricultural stakeholders who would like to implement data-driven technologies along with agronomic insights. It will continue to innovate technology to accelerate sustainability. Learn more at: https://agnext.com/
Agriculture Startup | AgNext Technologies Pvt. Ltd. |
Founded In | 2016 |
Founders | Mr. Taranjeet Singh Bhamra and Mr. Deepak Jaiswal |
Solution Overview | AgNext focuses on solving Food Quality, Food Safety and Food Traceability issues in agriculture and food value chain deploying its award winning Qualix Platform. Qualix uses latest technologies in computer vision, spectroscopy and IoT devices merged with AI based data sciences for instant analysis of Physical, Chemical and Ambient Quality of Foodtraced back to the source. AgNext's various technologies are useful for plantation companies, agricultural processors and other agriculture food chain participants to improve their profitability and marketability. |
Investors | Omnivore, Kalaari Capital, Samir Kumar, IIT Kharagpur and a-IDEA NAARM / $4.1M |
Headquarters | C-184, Industrial Area, Sector 75, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Mohali, Punjab 140308, India |
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