Pune, August 13, 2025: The Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) has announced that its FarmPrecise digital advisory platform has crossed 1 lakh downloads, delivering AI-enabled, real-time agricultural advisories to farmers in Maharashtra, Telangana, Odisha, and Madhya Pradesh. The app has helped users reduce input costs by up to 20% through data-backed decisions on crop and resource management.
Supporting 38 crops in English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, and Odia, FarmPrecise aims to make precision agriculture accessible to smallholder farmers. The platform, developed with support from Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach programme, combines scientific models and meteorological data to provide fertiliser planning, weather forecasts, market price updates, and pest and disease management solutions.
Two AI-powered features enhance the app’s utility: a multilingual chatbot offering expert-validated responses on farming practices, and a pest forewarning model predicting outbreaks in cotton and soybean crops using weather and crop-stage data. The app also hosts Krishi Manch for farmer–expert interactions and links users to collective procurement and marketing through Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs).
“In a country where nearly 65% of the population lives in rural areas and agriculture plays a vital economic role, empowering these communities with tools that are practical, localised, and actionable is essential. FarmPrecise bridges the gap between traditional practices and precision agriculture, enabling farmers to make timely, data-backed decisions that strengthen their livelihoods,” said Prakash Keskar, Executive Director, WOTR.
WOTR plans to expand FarmPrecise to 5 lakh farmers in eight states, with deeper integration of AI, IoT, and remote sensing to further improve hyper-local, predictive advisories.
Founded over three decades ago, WOTR works across 83 districts in 10 states, focusing on climate-resilient agriculture, water and land management, sustainable livelihoods, women empowerment, and community health. Its initiatives have restored over 2.4 million hectares of land and positively impacted more than 8.4 million people.
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