Digital Green, Cisco launch AI-backed advisory app for farmers
The app provides tailored advice on crop management and pest diagnosis via photos uploaded to FarmerChat.
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Digital Green, which offers smallholder farmers technology and data solutions, has launched a new initiative to provide them with AI-backed localised climate-smart advisory services. The initiative is being taken up with the support of Cisco India and the Andhra Pradesh government.
The app provides tailored advice on crop management and pest diagnosis via photos uploaded to FarmerChat.
This initiative aims to support 50,000 farmers, 25,000 each from direct onboarding and through digital channels, with at least 60 per cent participation by women across eight districts, including Guntur, Palnadu, Kurnool and Anantapur, a statement said here on Wednesday.
FarmerChat training
Over 300 frontline extension workers from various government institutions, including the Department of Horticulture and Sericulture, and representatives from five FPOs will be trained to use FarmerChat. They will onboard farmers directly on the application.
The initiative, Boosting Small-Scale Farmers’ Incomes with AI-Enabled Advisory, was formally launched by K Sreenivasulu, Director of Horticulture and Sericulture at the Commissionerate office in Chuttagunta near Guntur (Andhra Pradesh).
At the heart of the project is FarmerChat, an AI-powered, multimodal mobile application developed by the organisation that delivers climate-smart, hyperlocal, multilingual advisory to farmers.
“Through the effective use of the FarmerChat application and strong collaboration among partners, we will achieve tangible improvements in yield and quality of key horticultural commodities,” Sreenivasulu said.
“By supporting smallholder farmers to use AI-driven tools like FarmerChat, we are helping translate complex data into simple, actionable guidance that farmers can trust and apply in their daily lives,” Harish Krishnan, Managing Director & Chief Policy Officer, Cisco India & Southeast Asia said.
Published on January 7, 2026
