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

Indore-based agritech start-up Gramaphone has additional a trading module — Vyapar — to its farm administration platform that will support farmers link with customers and market their produce specifically.

Also, the organization options to expand its functions to states these kinds of as Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu more than the future twelve months, claimed Gramaphone founder Tauseef Khan.

Gramaphone presently operates mainly in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, in which more than 7 lakh farmers are using the farm administration platform for crop advisory and invest in of inputs. “We are introducing about one particular lakh farmers every single month to our platform,” Khan claimed. Also, the organization has a actual physical presence in nine places through its Gramodaya centres.

The Gramaphone platform offers customised crop advisory to farmers appropriate from sowing of the crop to the harvest through its mobile application and also through the contact centre, Khan claimed. Farmers are provided agronomy advice and updates on climate, market place price and also on pests and ailments.

Gramaphone presently performs with companies these kinds of as Godrej Agrovet and Dhanuka on the crop safety side and with seed companies these kinds of as Rasi and Nunheims between other people.

Now, by introducing the Vyapar module to its platform, Gramaphone is enabling farmers to market place their produce. It has already about 500 customers on board, like traders and processors on its platform and options to insert an additional 5,000 by the year-close, he claimed.

Began in 2016, Gramaphone elevated $three.4 million in its latest round of funding in December 2020 from Siana Funds. Earlier, it had elevated a complete of $4.5 million from investors these kinds of as Facts Edge, Asha Effect and Superior Funds.