This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. It’s 2016 and Simone Strey looks giddy. In the video, a clip from a series ...

Pilantix is a mobile crop advisory app that helps farmers and extension workers diagnose issues with their crops and offers appropriate treatment measures. All this is available at a click of a button ...

Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58 percent of India’s population, according to the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF). While millions of people in India depend on farming ...

The Plantixa app was developed in Berlin, Germany, by a team of graduate science students who came together with the aim of helping farmers to combat disease, pest damage and nutrient deficiency.

“We hope to become the farmer’s trusted advisor throughout the crop cycle,” Akshat Mittal, Plantix’s head of international growth, tells CNN Business. The app is currently able to identify more than ...

An artificial intelligence platform that diagnoses plant diseases via a free Android app has attracted $7.3 million from investors. The Plantix app was developed by Peat, a Berlin-based start-up. Peat ...

The world’s 500 million smallholder farmers have a new weapon in their never-ending fight against pests and plant diseases: an app called Plantix. By uploading pictures of affected crops to the mobile ...

Sugarcane and tomato farmer Sandip Shinde, 34, uses the Plantix app to check his crops for diseases. His images are helping Peat build a bigger picture about the health of crops across India. Tushar ...

Hyderabad: In a bid to help farmers identify problems with their crops, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Air Tropics (ICRISAT), in association with Progressive Environmental & ...