With one agent per 1,000 farmers, support lagged. AI now cross-checks 46,000 research papers to answer 340,000 questions.
A global non-profit supporting smallholder farmers faces a critical resource gap, where agricultural extension agents in India operate at a ratio of one agent to every 1,000 farmers.
Manual support could not meet demand, but automating advice created a verification bottleneck across 46,000 technical research papers. The team...
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