Farmers
Rice Yield
One photograph settles the variety — and tells the farmer how to grow it.
At a procurement centre, variety is called by eye. Graders disagree, a farmer has no way to contest the call, and declaring a cheaper grain as a premium one is a known route for money to leave procurement and export certification. A photograph makes the call consistent, and recorded.
Key Capabilities
How It Works
Photograph
The grader photographs the grain sample
Identify
The variety comes back with a confidence figure
Record
The call is stored with its time, so it can be revisited
Advise
Soil, pH, temperature and yield for that variety
Escalate
A low-confidence sample goes to a human grader
Who It's For
Impact & Value
- A variety call that does not vary between graders or centres
- Disputes become resolvable, because there is a record
- Screens for substitution in support-price procurement and export
- Gives the farmer something back — the guidance, not just the grade
- No laboratory, no reagents, no new equipment at the centre
What It Is Not
- Trained on clean single-grain imagery; bulk and field photography is unproven
- The trained varieties are not yet the Indian procurement basket
- The growing guidance is a reference table, not a soil-test recommendation
Retraining on Sona Masoori, Ponni, Samba, IR-64 and Pusa Basmati comes first, then validation on photographs taken the way a grader actually takes them — uneven light, mixed samples, a phone in one hand. We would rather quote a lower number measured on real conditions than a high one measured in a studio.
Deployment Models
Which varieties do you procure?
Tell us the varieties your centres actually handle and we can scope what retraining takes. A few hundred labelled photographs per variety is usually the starting point.