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Our\nmission, through SBSF (Science, Business & Sustainable Futures)\nConsultancy, is to leapfrog intensification of agriculture through\nextensive mechanization focusing on a few crops and large farms (like in the US\nwhere corn, wheat, soybean, cotton and hay makes up 90% of the harvested\nacreage), to more balanced, efficient and yet sustainable, and diversified\ncropping systems by enabling precision agriculture. Taking into consideration\nthat Indian agriculture is still dominated by resource deficient farmers,\nliving and farming under extreme weather conditions, with average land holdings\nof less than an acre, we decided that the best way to approach this challenge\nwould be to create a large network of agricultural experts with rich knowledge\nand deep experience of Indian agriculture and pair them with Data  Science\nand Machine Learning experts from around the world to work on projects and\nproducts that are innovative and deliver value at the individual farm\nlevel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since\nits inception in 2018, SBSF Consultancy has been working with seed companies,\nFPOs, FPCs, Universities and other government and non-government\nagencies. Listing out the value proposition and ways in which we partner\nwith our clients and stakeholders have included: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.\nPreparation of bankable and investment ready projects (DPR), technical\nguidance, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, etc. for FPOs, FPCs,\nGovernment\/ Non-Government institutions and Private companies. Focusing\non innovative solutions for utilization of barren\/ marginal lands by\nintroducing high value crops of economic importance\/industrial uses, we\nrecently successfully concluded an assignment for NABARD\/NABCONS in\nestablishing Olive plantation on non-agricultural marginal lands in Purulia\nDistrict of West Bengal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.\nProvide technical backstopping to Farmer Producer Organization\/Farmer Producer\nCompany (FPO\/FPC) by fine tuning Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) to improve\nyields, quality of produce, primary value addition, storage and finally\nestablish market linkages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Guide\ncomplete value chain for the Private Companies\/Corporates dealing with\nagricultural commodities on quality procurement used for value addition and\nproduct diversification<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Assist\nAgri-Export Companies in private sector by addressing sanitary-phytosanitary\nissues meeting country-specific regulatory requirements and avoiding import\nalerts mostly in case of Groundnut, Basmati Rice and range of Spices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Monitor\nhigh-quality seed production, both for hybrids and open pollinated for Private\nSeed Companies as well as National Level Agencies for seed production and\nsupply<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.\nHelp in filing application for intellectual property rights for new varieties,\nhybrids\/parental lines; patenting of new products\/formulation; R&D\nRegistration, among others<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Supervise\/audit\norganic crop production in agri-horticultural systems, including medicinal\nplants, and guide the development, implementation and practicing of\ntraceability systems  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides\nthese service offerings, through SBSF Consultancy, our focus lies in capturing\nand building on siloed data, through digitalisation in agriculture, to bring it\nto a level where advanced ML (Machine Learning) and AI (Artificial\nIntelligence) can be applied to seek novel and innovative solutions to some of\nthe most pressing challenges around food security, health and wellbeing in the\nface of drastic climate changes.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nfood security through increased food availability\n(often mistakenly correlated with “just” higher yields) is\ncritical in ensuring that every person has at least two meals per day, it\nshould not be misconstrued with access to potentially toxic food grown\nwith excessive and indiscriminate use of inputs (like chemical feritlizers,\ninsecticides and pesticides), in hazardous soils and irrigated with\ncontaminated water containing high levels of toxins (like arsenic, cadmium,\nselenium, etc.), and handled and stored under dangerous conditions (resulting\nin microbial growth like aflatoxin, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Bacillus\ncereus, etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nworking with the whole value chain in agriculture, we are acutely aware of\nexisting technological products and solutions, and how they can be\ninnovated, adapted and deployed to create maximum impact leading to better\noutcomes at large scales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nexample, our recent attempts to tackle the Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera\nfrugiperda<\/em>) infestation in maize and other economically important crops\nlike rice, sorghum, sugarcane, cotton, among others using a data science based\napproach led to the most detailed publication to enhance our understanding of\nthis voracious, ineradicable pest (from the Americas). We have successfully\ncombined the FAO FAMEWS dataset (outbreaks) with FLDAS (weather) and HWSD\n(soils). The 3 datasets were merged based on the geo-coordinates of the crop\nfields in FAMEWS. We used Extreme Gradient Boosting (a Machine Learning\nalgorithm) and the results are available at https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/critical-factors-contributing-to-the-spread-of-fall-armyworms-from-a-data-science-perspective-a1fec38cff32<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using\nthe expertise developed on Fall Armyworms so far, we intend to conduct very\ndetailed and focused surveys aimed at creating an Artificial Intelligence (AI)\nbased alerting system in real time by leveraging agricultural domain knowledge,\ndata science and machine learning. Should you wish to know more about the\nnetwork members (who are the ambassadors fighting to usher in a new era in\nIndian Agriculture) and our activities, please visit https:\/\/sbsf-consultancy.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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