smallholder farming

In Baramati, a decades-old agricultural trust and a cluster of progressive growers have become the testing ground for a bold idea: stitch together cloud-first data architecture, spatial AI and vernacular advisory delivery to make precision farming practicable — and profitable — for India’s...

Microsoft Research’s Project Gecko is rolling out a speech‑first, multimodal AI pilot that targets smallholder farmers in Kenya and India — bringing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text‑to‑Speech (TTS), Small Language Models (SLMs), and a novel reasoning layer called the MultiModal Critical...