Agtech start-up Gramaphone eyes expansion in UP, Maharashtra and South

Indore-centered agritech start-up Gramaphone has included a buying and selling module — Vyapar — to its farm administration platform that will aid farmers join with purchasers and provide their generate straight.

Also, the organization plans to extend its operations to states this sort of as Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu around the up coming 12 months, stated Gramaphone founder Tauseef Khan.

Gramaphone now operates generally in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, where by around 7 lakh farmers are applying the farm administration platform for crop advisory and order of inputs. “We are introducing about just one lakh farmers each and every month to our platform,” Khan stated. Also, the organization has a bodily existence in nine areas by way of its Gramodaya centres.

The Gramaphone platform provides customised crop advisory to farmers correct from sowing of the crop to the harvest by way of its cellular app and also by way of the simply call centre, Khan stated. Farmers are supplied agronomy guidance and updates on climate, marketplace cost and also on pests and ailments.

Gramaphone now will work with firms this sort of as Godrej Agrovet and Dhanuka on the crop safety aspect and with seed firms this sort of as Rasi and Nunheims amongst other folks.

Now, by introducing the Vyapar module to its platform, Gramaphone is enabling farmers to marketplace their generate. It has previously about five hundred purchasers on board, together with traders and processors on its platform and plans to include yet another 5,000 by the yr-conclusion, he stated.

Started out in 2016, Gramaphone lifted $3.4 million in its most recent round of funding in December 2020 from Siana Money. Earlier, it experienced lifted a full of $4.5 million from investors this sort of as Information Edge, Asha Effects and Much better Money.