BKC Aggregators: Transforming Lives, One Farmer at a Time

  In Rabi season 2020-21, FASAL SALAH team carry out a study of crops grown in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh. Wheat is the major crop of Agra district followed by mustard and Potato. Idea was to look at the crop on ground as well as from satellite to see if size the crop and yields could be determined. FASAL SALAH App, Our Crop monitoring technology is unique using bottoms up approach with crop monitoring 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 of crop yield estimation before actual harvest. Our technology has been field tested and awarded by Govt. of India (Winner of Great Agriculture Challenge 2019).   This helps the commodity market players and farmer’s decision-making process. Using crop monit...

  We decided to carry out a study of the wheat crop in Vidisha district of MP in Nov 2020. The idea was to look at the crop on the ground as well as from satellite to see if size the crop and yields could be determined and advisories improved sensing moisture stress before it begins to develop . BKC’s FASAL SALAH App is in service of Vidisha farmers. 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 the health of the crop well before the harvest. Farmers send the geo-located crop pictures through FASAL SALAH which helps monitor their crop growth in the different time scale for yield forecasting. This also helps to correlate the ground recorded vegetation indices with high-resolution satellite data (In this ca...

  v   Current weather phenomenon The monsoon trough lies to the south of its normal position. Its eastern end is very likely to remain to the south of its normal position till 17th September, 2020. An east-west shear zone runs roughly along Latitude 15°N between 3.1 & 5.8 km above mean sea level. It is likely to persist during next 2 days. v   No indication as yet of monsoon withdrawal from north-west India. Another low-pressure area is likely to develop over the Bay of Bengal around September 17; monsoon forecast need to be assessing further to be certain. Monsoon withdrawal can begin only once anti-cyclonic flow is established and moisture reduces significantly over the region.     v   The Southwest monsoon stuck deviating significantly from the geographic distribution Normally, the withdrawal of monsoon is supposed to begin from September 17 when rains begin to reduce across the country until completely withdrawing on October 15 . But this yea...

Through Fasal Salah App, approximately 150,000 Lakh farmers are linked to us on a one to one basis. These farmers are cultivating different crops. The sowing date, variety and agriculture management practices follows by them are received at by us for analytical purposes. Based on these inputs from farmers, yield determining factors like temperature, humidity, sunshine are crunched into a dynamic crop model specially developed for this purpose.  We selected soybean as crop and Dewas of Madhya Pradesh as the area of study.  Dewas is situated between North latitude 22o 17’00” & 23o 20’00” and east longitude 22.962267, 76.050797 and covers 7,020 km sq. area   . Study Area This study covered about 1200 farmers cultivated soybean who were connected on Fasal Salah App. Through this app farmers received weather basis advisory based on crop physiology of soybean being cultivated in real time. Farmers in farm were providing feedback of management practices being fol...

Good, better, best and never take rest until your good becomes better and better become best; it is the principle which is followed by Dr BK Singh, who is working tirelessly for the welfare of farming community across the country. After winning the Agriculture Grand Challenge (Govt. of India) 2018, BKC Aggregators has won HDFC's Digital Innovation Summit which was organized at IIM Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 31st January 2019.   FASAL SALAH provides timely and personalised agri- advisory for the welfare of farmers, a perfect solution for several problems being faced by farmers. Using dynamic crop models and artificial intelligence analytics, BKC has been able to generate an algorithm for calculation of yields well before the harvest. Thus it is possible now to have an accurate estimate of the crop before it is harvested by the farmers. Forecasting the yield before harvest is going to become strong tool for several problems associated to the losses and difficulties being...

Food security in the light of climate change is a global imperative. In developing nations, the problem is exacerbated by variable weather, lack of reliable extension services to optimize yield and fair market access. In India, most farmers do not have access to weather advisory forecasts that are hyper local to their field and timely in nature. As all farming activities are heavily dependent on weather, decisions on application of fertilizers and pesticide, irrigation, and even plucking of fruits & vegetables and harvesting cannot be taken efficiently. In addition, significant crop losses, that are entirely preventable, accrue through adverse weather events. Crop advisory services, where available, are generic and not pegged to a farmer's seed variety, date of sowing, and growing conditions and hence do not dispense timely, actionable advice, directly relevant to a farmer. Likewise, market trends pertinent to their particular crop and location ...

Aggregators: BKC Aggregators vision is to transform the socio-economic fabric of India by creating farmer-entrepreneurs. Our mission is to provide timely and actionable information to each farmer to increase production and incomes, and mitigate risks with real-time yield forecasts. It all began in 1971 when our Founder, Dr. B. K. Singh, a fresh Ph.D in Agriculture from the Indian Agriculture Research Institute entered the workforce of post-independence and recently Green Revolutionized India.  Starting out with agriculture commodity trading at the State Trading Corporation of India, he continued to grapple with the challenges of bringing extension to farmers and how much weather affected livelihoods and, lives of farmers in India.   His first company, BKC WeatherSys, established in 1989, was the first entity to bring 7 day weather forecasts to India, the first to provide weather forecasts to farmers through text messages, and the first to build an automated forecasting so...