Cropwise Grower Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Developed by Syngenta Bangladesh, the Cropwise Grower is a mobile app based digital solution which provides advisory services to farmers. In addition to helping farmers increase crop ROI, it's also a complete ecosystem that offers services such as Image-based problem diagnosis, locating the nearest Krishitey Syngenta franchises, and understanding spraying windows based on localized weather information. Snap, Detect and Diagnose feature of this AI based solution lets farmers take picture of the affected crop (currently, rice and in future potato, maize, fruits, and vegetables) and provide real-time identification and solution within the Cropwise Grower app.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
AI-Big data based solutions, Weather forecasting, Farm advisory services
Delivery type (format)
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Mobile app
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
Syngenta Foundation
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , SMEs / agripreneurs , Ag input dealers
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Covering five countries and 750,000 hectares of farmland Half a million farmers producing staple cash crops such as cotton, rice, corn, wheat, and more. Source: https://asiafoodjournal.com/ai-enabled-farming-cropwise-grower-reach-asia/
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Smallholder farmers access to a global database of over 50 crops and 500 diseases Pest and disease diagnostics are 93% accurate Source: https://asiafoodjournal.com/ai-enabled-farming-cropwise-grower-reach-asia/
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Bangladesh
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes