BKC Aggregators: Transforming Lives, One Farmer at a Time

Introduction: BKC Aggregators has been working in area of weather-focused advisories to the farmers through an app named FASAL SALAH . Through this app, Farmers get advisories based on variety sown, date of sowing and weather forecast of their village. Farmers also send their crop pictures as prescribed. This App uses artificial intelligence for image processing of farmers sent pictures and crop modelling analytics, which BKC has established for calculation of yield and health of the crop well before the harvest. The service has been in successful operations with a large number of farmers. FASAL SALAH App , Our Crop monitoring technology is unique using bottoms up approach at field level and correlating ground realities with real-time crop vegetation index monitored via spectral analysis of high-resolution satellite images for different fields and crops. This enables to track positive and negative dynamics of crop development much more realistically. This way it is more realistic way...

  Price Outlook: Raw sugar and Arabica coffee futures on ICE closed lower on some showers forecast in drought-hit Brazil over the next few days and profit taking by funds.                               ·          July raw sugar (SBc1) settled down 0.33 cent, or 1.9%, at 17.38 cents per lb.      ·          August white sugar (LSUc1) settled down $7.20, or 1.5%, at $459.30 a tonne.      ·          The weather in the Centre-South region of Brazil remained a focus with some showers forecast this week although overall conditions remain dry.      ·          Lower energy prices can lead to more use of cane to make sugar rather than biofuel ethanol, particularly in Brazil.   Factors affecting Br...