Sudhir Devkar, a hydroponic farmer
from Satara, Maharashtra, has come up with an innovative artificial
intelligence driven solution to address the issues faced by farmers who follow
the traditional farming methods.
“I come from a traditional farming
background. After continuously facing issues like water crisis, market price
fluctuation, poor quality produce and high cost of fertilizers, pesticides, and
labor unavailability, I started working on creating a hydroponic project with
focus in mind how I can produce high quality, low price exotic quality food
with minimum labor, water, and fertilizers with zero pesticides usage.”, says
Sudhir Devkar.
Sudhir Devkar, along with co-founder
Vikrant Chowdhary, created Kryzen, a commercially viable hydroponics plant in
order to address the pain points of the Indian farmer.
Kryzen team has developed an
in-house mobile application to control the farm and its Artificial
intelligence-driven, reducing labor requirement by 1/6 th then traditional
farming and giving accuracy up to 270% stronger than big automation equipment
available.
“With the help of artificial
intelligence, we can track market pricing on day to day basis. Currently, we
are tracking 50+ crops across Mumbai, Pune, and Bangalore markets. This gives
us the flexibility to project market trends along with market requirements and
pricing to decide crop cycle and expected financial returns.”, says Sudhir
Devkar.
Kryzen is the first commercially
successful hydroponic plant in Maharastra. “Most of the other plants are either
too small to sustain themselves and some of them are relied on hydroponic
training or selling hydroponic equipment to generate profit. We have built our
farm in 1/4th of cost of currently available technologies in the market”, says
Vikrant Chowdhary.
Kryzen has developed everything
needed in-house with the help of daily wage workers.
Currently, Kryzen is producing 50kg
of sweet Italian basil every day in just 5000sqft area, and BigBasket is one of
their biggest clients. “in conventional farming, 1-acre land is needed to take
this much of production”, says Sudhir Devkar.
Kryzen is planning to expand into
cities where building terrace will be used for vegetable production and
additionally helping us to reduce transportation costs providing fresh produce
to consumers.
“Our farming capacity is 3 times
more than hi-tech hydroponic farm available in the market and 7 times more than
traditional agriculture, space-wise”, says Sudhir Devkar.
Kryzen is using 12000 liters of
water per month to produce this much product which is 24 times less than
traditional agriculture. In conventional agriculture, a farmer needs 3 lac
liters of water every month for this production.
Kryzen’s monthly operational cost is
less than 10,000/- rupees, which include electricity, labor, maintenance,
packaging, and fertilizers. Kryzen is selling at a price point between 50/- to
250/- per kg based on the season that gives me a pure profit of one lack rupees
per month in lowest priced market, and in the higher market, it goes up to
three lack seventy-five thousand.
“We are producing constant quality
vegetables at the same speed and all year round without getting impacted by
climatic conditions.”, says Sudhir Devkar. Kryzen can work on a much lower
price than market price due to fix operation costs and zero climate impact.
“We developed all this technology
and farming method on our own, and now we want to spread awareness into other
farmers how they can create something like this and safeguard themselves from
climatic conditions, market price fluctuation, water crisis, and labor issues.”
Says Sudhir Devkar.
With the help of innovative
engineering, Kryzen has been able to bring down the cost of construction so low
that they never went for any loan or subsidy from the government. The Kryzen
team comprises of 17 employees working across various departments.
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