India, Feb. 5 -- The agricultural sector continues to be the biggest employer in India, with over 46% of the population engaged in agricultural activities, a number that has surprisingly grown in the past few years even though globally India's image is a tech services and products giant.

At the same time, the average annual growth rate in the agriculture and allied sector over the past five years has been around 4.4%, according to the Economic Survey 2026.

It highlighted that while AAGR has shown improvement, exceeding the global average of 2.9%, yields across several crops continue to trail behind global numbers. Enter: crop productivity. Several startups in the sector have been trying to optimise agriculture for the past decade throug...