Agrograde
India
Agrograde provides a smart affordable AI enabled grading and sorting machines which helps to grade and sort as per the quality of horticulture crops. The startup works with FPOs and aggregators to improve the marketability of the produce and increase transparency in trade. This enables fair price discovery mechanisms as per the quality and grade of the produce and eliminates unfair practices. Agrograde digital solution deliver Artificial Intelligence based customized solutions to all elements of the Agri-supply chain. This helps them to achieve greater returns while removing manual subjectivity from their processes. Their mobile app provides a quality overview of fresh fruits and vegetables. The app generates a quality report that helps users while negotiating with buyers. Using this report, farmers can directly communicate with the enterprises or buyers and sell their produce for a higher price. An added advantage of the using the app is to know what quality can be sold to which type of buyer to optimize returns.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Supply chain management, Food safety and quality management, Digital marketing and trading
AI-Big data based solutions
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Agrograde Limited
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (limited use)
Number of users or subscribers
Over 15 Farmer Producer Organisations with collectively more than 7,000 farmer members
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Reported to have increased farmers and FPOs returns by over 30%. Reduction in unfair practices by traders and merchants. Making technology such as optical sorters available at affordable rates .
Digital Solution Geographic scope
State of Maharashtra
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital initiatives