Agriculture is complicated. The landscape is changing, there’s climate change and there are a million other factors that affect the farmer’s yield. But it’s what our entire population’s hunger and health depends on. Recent initiatives in AI are finding ways to get the crop to talk to the farmer about what it needs.
Credits:
Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma & Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Abhijit Nath & Avyay Gujral
All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators
We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode
<ul>
 <li>Ananda Verma, Co-founder at Fasal</li>
 <li>Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director, Research for Industry and CTO, Agri-Food at Microsoft Research</li>
 <li>Vikram Kumar, Associate Director at Wadhwani AI</li>
 <li>Jibu Elias, AI Ethicist, Senior Researcher and Lead at INDIAai</li>
 <li>Ram Dhulipala, Senior Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute and Former Scientist at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics</li>
</ul>
Links to clips used in the episode and citations:
<ul>
 <li><a href="https://fasal.co/">Fasal Website and information about their IoT device</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/farmbeats-iot-agriculture/">FarmBeats</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43H507c8dQ">News Reports on Locust Attacks in India</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.britannica.com/animal/pink-bollworm">Brittanica Entry on the Pink Bollworm</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/pink-bollworm-attack-punjab-records-34-cotton-crop-loss-101635622561375.html">Punjab Records 34% Cotton Crop Loss After Pink Bollworm Attack</a></li>
</ul>
To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit <a href="https://microsoft.com/ai">https://microsoft.com/ai</a>

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