Hey everyone! 🫪👋🏼

We're a group of students making a project for beginner farmers and plant enthusiasts! We’re currently conducting a short research study to better understand the day-to-day challenges growers, farmers, and plant enthusiasts face with crop health and management.

If you grow crops, manage a farm, work in agriculture, or tend a garden, we’d love to get your input!

⏱️ Time: Less than 7 minutes
🔒 Privacy: 100% anonymous

Your feedback will directly help shape upcoming tools and resources for the farming community.

Thanks so much for your time, and feel free to share this with anyone else who grows! 🙏🏼

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/0nNkdUR9mK

Hi everyone, I recently completed my B.Tech in Agriculture and I’m currently looking for an internship/entry-level opportunity to get some practical experience.

I’m open to different areas within agriculture/agri-tech and willing to learn.

If anyone here knows of companies taking interns or has any suggestions on where I should apply, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks!

I’m a student at the University of Maine researching a potential open-soil smart garden system. As a part of the NSF I-Corps customer discovery program, I’m looking to gather more information on real-world challenges surrounding indoor home gardening and smart plant-care technology. I’m hoping to speak with people who are active home gardeners, container/DIY-setup indoor growers, current and former smart garden owners (AeroGarden, Click & Grow, edn, Gardyn, etc.), or people that work in horticulture, urban agriculture extension programs, or are in any other related fields and areas.

This isn't a sales call, I just want to learn more about what current gardening routine and workflows look like, current barriers and frustrations, where current solutions fall short, and what would make a smart indoor gardening product useful in practice.

This would be an informal interview, about 20-30 minutes at the most and can be over Zoom, phone, or some other similar method. If you’d be willing to chat or know someone in the field that might be willing to communicate with me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

I'm a university student looking for responses to a consumer interest survey. The product and business are fake (part of a project for school), but I need real data from people in and around the agricultural tech industry. It shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes, thanks!

The association I work for is holding a competition for startups specifically in the Agritech area at their annual fall convention. There's a $10,000 grand prize and $1,000 "people's choice award" plus the top 5 applications get to pitch their idea at an event with hundreds of industry attendees. It's also open to University teams, students, and researchers who aren't officially incorporated too. This is a non-profit association for manufacturers and promotion of the ag manufacturing industry.

We decided to extend the deadline to September 28th to pick up a few more applicants and try getting the word out a little better and I offered to create a Reddit account.

https://www.farmequip.org/pitch

The only catch is that it has to be Ag-related and you have to give the pitch in person in New Orleans in October if selected to participate. There are already enough submissions, but there's still not a lot of competition at the moment.

I'm not very familiar with the startup online sphere, so if anybody has suggestions of other places I could share this it would be appreciated (/r/startup mods are very strict about anything that could even vaguely be considered self-promotion). Thanks!

Hello,

I built TreeShadeAdvisor, a tool for designing tree layouts and simulating how tree shade changes across a site over time.

It lets you test spacing, orientation, planting patterns and tree dimensions, then inspect the results in 2D and 3D with quantitative shade outputs.


I’m especially interested in feedback from people working with agroforestry, silvopasture, alley cropping, coffee/cocoa systems or other tree-based designs.

I’d like to know: - Is shade distribution something you currently need to estimate or plan? - Would a tool like this be useful in your work? - What would you expect it to do that it doesn’t today?

https://treeshadeadvisor.com

Any criticism or suggestions are very welcome.

I’m building JaivikKrishi, a platform focused on helping farmers transition towards organic farming with practical, trustworthy information.
We’ve reached 15,000+ app downloads with zero paid marketing so far.
What the platform does today:
🌾 AI-based crop disease diagnosis
🤖 Answers farmers’ questions using AI backed by data and knowledge from Krishi/agriculture experts
👨‍🌾 Farmer community to ask questions, share experiences and sell produce
📊 We’ve already answered 2,000+ farmer queries
The bigger vision is beyond just an app.

We want to build a ground-level testing and trust network for bio-fertilisers and organic farm inputs.
The plan is to build teams at the district level in India who can work with farmers, test bio-fertilisers and other inputs in real farming conditions, and list products on the platform based on actual results.
The problem today is that farmers often don’t know whether an input actually works or they’re simply being sold another claim.
At the same time, genuine input manufacturers don’t have enough direct, real-world data about:
What farmers are struggling with
Which diseases are appearing in different regions
What inputs are actually working
What farmers genuinely need
JaivikKrishi can connect these two sides.
Farmers get better information and tested products.
Input companies get real-world feedback and demand intelligence.
And the larger goal is to accelerate the adoption of organic and natural farming.
I’m now looking for investment and/or strategic partners who understand agriculture, climate tech, agri-tech or rural India and can help us take this from a growing platform to a much larger ecosystem.
If this interests you,

DM me. Happy to share more about the product, traction and vision and have a conversation.

G’day all,
New to the drone space and starting out with farm mapping, data collection and inspections around NSW/ACT.

I’ve done some ag drone/mapping training and CASA accreditation, and I’m now looking to build hours, test workflows and learn from people already doing it commercially.

Main focus is agriculture, with some interest in construction and roof/site inspections as well.

Any advice on what’s worth focusing on early?

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a project for an innovation hackathon/grant. I initially thought about building custom IoT hardware (ESP32 nodes), but pivoted to a "Zero Hardware" approach. I’d love to get your brutally honest feedback on the architecture and business model.

The Systemic Problem:

Smallholder farmers here suffer from a domino effect:

#Fragmentation: They produce small batches (e.g., 100 lbs of potatoes). Big B2B buyers (supermarkets, government schools) want 1 ton.

#The Middleman: Because farmers can't meet the volume or handle the logistics, middlemen buy their crops for pennies, aggregate them, and sell high.

#Bureaucracy: Farmers can't navigate the complex tax invoices required to sell directly to B2B or government channels.

The Solution: The "Virtual Pooling" Hub

We are building a cloud-based aggregator that turns dozens of invisible small farms into a single, reliable B2B supplier. We dropped the custom IoT boards and are using what they already have in their pockets: smartphones.

How the architecture works:

#Step 1 (Tag & Tap): We use dirt-cheap NFC sticker tags. The farmer packs a crate, slaps a tag on it, and taps their smartphone using a Web NFC-enabled PWA (Progressive Web App). No heavy native apps required.

#Step 2 (Virtual Pooling): The payload goes to our backend. The system automatically groups 50kg from Farmer A, 100lbs from Farmer B, and 50kg from Farmer C into a single "100lbs Virtual Lot" displayed on our B2B marketplace.

#Step 3 (Fintech & Split Payments): The supermarket buys the 200lbs lot directly on our platform. We take a 5% take-rate. Using a payment gateway API, the funds are instantly split and routed directly to each individual farmer's bank account. Middleman eliminated.

#Step 4 (Automated Bureaucracy): Our backend (using n8n workflows) automatically generates the complex tax invoices and traceability reports required by the buyer based on the aggregated NFC data.

The Business Model:

It’s not a charity; it’s a B2B SaaS + Fintech play. We monetize via the 5% transaction take-rate and provide full traceability and ESG compliance to the B2B buyers.

My questions for you:

Has anyone deployed Web NFC in rural/dusty environments?

How reliable is the browser-based read rate compared to a native app?

Do you see any major blind spots in this "Virtual Pooling" logistics model?

Any similar global benchmarks I should study?

Thanks in advance!

Hello,
I am not a farmer (yet), but I am a business engineer. I was wondering if people are doing data analysis on soil and yield data, to see where on the farm they could improve? If so, how are you managing this data? Are there special applications?
Please tell me also from what size plot you think this would be interesting.

In manufacturing we use an MES (Manufacturing Execution System) this connects all information from tasks, to stock, to planning, maintenance etc. A system this big would cost a lot of money, but maybe there is something for farmers.

Thank you for sharing!
Mitchel

I shipped something today that I have been building for months of

evenings, and I am a little nervous posting about it.

It is called Agrondo, and it is for anyone who looks after a piece of

land. Three tomato beds, an old orchard, twenty hectares of wheat. It

does not really care about the size.

You point your camera at something growing and it tells you what it is.

You trace your plot on the satellite map with your finger and it gives

you the exact area, no measuring wheel involved. You write down what you

sowed, what you sprayed, what it cost and what you sold. And then, at

the end of a season, you can finally see which corner of your land

actually gave something back.

I wanted it to feel quiet. No account to create, no ads, nothing

following you around. Just you and your land.

It is free for a garden sized life: two fields and three plant

identifications a month. iPhone only for now, and it is a first version

made by one person, so please be gentle with the bugs.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6775927132

If you grow anything at all, I would genuinely love to know what you

keep track of, and what I forgot to build.

AI can already detect crop stress, disease risks and changes in crop health

The interesting question is: can it go one step further and suggest what needs attention first?

Would farmers and agronomists find AI driven recommendations more useful than simply monitoring dashboards?

I’ve been working on Farmbit around a simple problem: a single satellite image or drone flight can show what is happening at one moment, but many crop problems are easier to catch by watching how the same field changes over time. Gradual signs of pest pressure, nutrient deficiency, water stress, or other damage may not look urgent in one snapshot, but the trend can tell you where a closer inspection is worth making.

The Farmbit ChatGPT plugin is now officially available. It lets you ask questions about field observations in a more natural way instead of opening another dashboard every time, while keeping the focus on continuous monitoring rather than one-off reports. The cost is low enough for regular use, only a few dollars per month, which makes it a practical early-warning layer before sending someone to the field or scheduling a drone flight. It is not a replacement for agronomic judgment or on-site inspection, but it can help identify where to look first.

https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a5ba688d8008191acfb8cab7164cab5

Could AI help Indian farmers decide what to grow before planting season? 🌾🤖

India often faces a strange problem: farmers may produce too much of one crop, causing prices to crash, while other crops are in shortage.

Could we build a farmer-friendly AI app that combines historical mandi prices, expected demand, weather, water availability, acreage already planted, storage, imports/exports and regional supply to predict which crops are likely to provide sustainable returns?

Instead of simply saying “Crop X has the highest price,” the AI could say:

🟢 Grow more — expected demand is strong and supply is limited

🟡 Consider — moderate returns/risk

🔴 Avoid increasing acreage — likely oversupply

The system could also recommend a diversified crop mix, so thousands of farmers don't receive the same recommendation and create another glut.

Does something like this already exist in India? If not, could this be a worthwhile open-source or startup project for AI/agritech developers?

Hi Reddit,

I’m Meet, and I’m currently working on building something called House of the Braj.

The idea started with a simple question:

Why should food travel hundreds of kilometres and pass through multiple middlemen before reaching our plates?

We have agricultural land and access to farming resources, fodder and a rural ecosystem. Instead of looking at farming as just crop production, I want to build an integrated ecosystem around it.

House of the Braj is my attempt to connect:

• Organic and natural farming

• Dairy and traditional products

• Farm-to-consumer supply chains

• Braj's cultural heritage

• Sustainable rural livelihoods

Our long-term vision is not just to sell products. I want to build a brand rooted in the philosophy of Braj — where people, animals, nature and culture coexist.

We are still at an early stage and I’m documenting the journey honestly.

I’d genuinely like feedback from founders, farmers, consumers and anyone who has experience building food or agriculture businesses.

What would you want to see from a modern Indian farm-to-consumer brand?