AI for Bharat: Why the next agritech revolution must be voice-first and inclusive

By Milind Borgikar, Co-Founder & CTO, Ayekart

Agriculture still employs about 43% of India’s workforce, according to an SBI Research analysis of Periodic Labour Force Survey data. Meanwhile, India has 958 million active internet users, 57% of them rural, according to the IAMAI–Kantar Internet in India 2025 report. It also finds that 44% of users already use AI features such as voice search, and nearly one in five goes online through someone else’s phone.

The story is clear. Rural India is online, comfortable talking to machines and often shares devices. Yet around 579 million Indians are still not active internet users, and the country speaks 22 scheduled languages and hundreds of dialects. The people who grow and trade India’s food are more reachable than ever, but most digital products still do not speak their language.

The next agritech revolution will not be won by the smartest algorithm, but by the...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to www.expresscomputer.in. To see the full text click HERE