How an AI-powered precision farming solution is helping small and marginal farmers in Kotagiri

The overcast sky did not deter Lakshmi, a 70 year-old native of Kookulthorai village in Kotagiri from pulling out the weeds and ensuring that the lettuce that she had planted in her half-acre plot received enough inputs.

Stating that she does not depend on farm hands to do the job, Lakshmi admits to toiling hard to get adequate returns to support herself and her ailing son.

Lakshmi and many others in Kookulthurai belt have in recent months taken to cultivation of short duration exotic crops such as lettuce, broccoli, celery, parsley, zucchini and rosemary. Thanks to the intervention by Bengaluru-based start-up Aibono, these small and marginal farmers with holdings not exceeding 2 acres are today looking up to this company for buy-back of the farm produce.