Every paper we've published

Surveying 254 rice accessions from Madhya Pradesh against 30 standardised DUS descriptors, researchers found near-total uniformity in basic leaf traits but the widest variation of the whole study in awn length — a practical shortlist of traits for telling indigenous landraces apart.

Screening 32 native soil bacteria from Karnataka rice fields, researchers found two Streptomyces strains that cut sheath blight severity as effectively as a chemical fungicide — with hydrogen cyanide and iron-starving siderophores identified as their weapons against the fungus.

A sweeping review of AI in food production finds hyperspectral-imaging quality checks hitting up to 100% accuracy and predictive maintenance cutting downtime 30% — yet food remains the least robotic-adopting industrial sector of all, at just 5% penetration.

India's fertiliser sector runs on Gulf-region gas and imported potash and phosphate — so when the 2026 West-Asia conflict shut down Strait of Hormuz shipping, urea prices jumped over 75% in a year, even as India entered the season with unusually large stockpiles cushioning the immediate blow.

A survey of 40 farmers in Odisha's hilly Gajapati district finds every single one sells exclusively via informal roadside stalls, with poor transport as the dominant barrier — and not one has ever received government or institutional marketing support.

A PRISMA-guided review of 35 studies traces how vision-based navigation, bio-inspired swarm robotics, and hyperspectral sensing are converging on autonomous farm machines — and catalogs the cost, adaptability, and policy gaps still standing between the technology and small farms.

A field-image dataset of 1,000 onion plants trained an upgraded YOLOv8 detector that spots Anthracnose, Stemphylium blight, Purple Blotch, and Twister disease at 77.3% accuracy and 123 frames per second — fast and light enough to run inside a farmer-facing smartphone app.

A field trial in Agra found that combining black polythene mulch with 50 ppm gibberellic acid (GA3) boosted cabbage head yield by roughly 30% over untreated plants, while also producing the earliest, largest, and densest heads of any treatment tested.

A solar-powered device combining multi-spectral LED insect trapping with an IoT-triggered ultrasonic animal repellent cut animal intrusions by roughly 75% in a 30-day field trial at Agriculture University Jodhpur — running entirely off-grid.

A survey of 400 Uttar Pradesh farmer households finds that regular users of digital advisory platforms — WhatsApp groups, YouTube, apps — score significantly higher on knowledge, empowerment, and yield than non-users, even after controlling for income and education.

A qualitative study of 37 New Zealand dairy and sheep/beef farmers finds they increasingly trust informal, digital, and peer-driven information — including AI — over formal institutions, and are struggling with real information overload as a result.

Using two decades of Indian inflation data, this study finds a durable long-run link between agricultural production and both consumer and wholesale price inflation — spiking sharply during the 2008 financial crisis and again in 2021, before both measures corrected by 2023.

A multi-agent AI system that generates season-long farming advice and checks it against a crop growth simulator before recommending it — in a decade-long test on maize in Karnataka, all three reasoning strategies beat static advisory guidelines, with the best approach lifting yields by over 1,150 kg/ha.