Indore-based mostly agritech start off-up Gramophone has included a buying and selling module — Vyapar — to its farm administration platform that will assistance farmers link with customers and offer their deliver specifically.

Also, the organization options to extend its functions to states such as Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu above the subsequent twelve months, reported Gramophone founder Tauseef Khan.

Gramophone at this time operates largely in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the place above seven lakh farmers are applying the farm administration platform for crop advisory and obtain of inputs. “We are incorporating about 1 lakh farmers every month to our platform,” Khan reported. Also, the organization has a physical existence in nine spots by its Gramodaya centres.

The Gramophone platform supplies customised crop advisory to farmers correct from sowing of the crop to the harvest by its cellular app and also by the call centre, Khan reported. Farmers are presented agronomy guidance and updates on weather, industry price and also on pests and conditions.

Gramophone at this time works with firms such as Godrej Agrovet and Dhanuka on the crop protection side and with seed firms such as Rasi and Nunheims between other individuals.

Now, by incorporating the Vyapar module to its platform, Gramophone is enabling farmers to industry their deliver. It has already about 500 customers on board, together with traders and processors on its platform and options to add a further 5,000 by the 12 months-stop, he reported.

Begun in 2016, Gramophone raised $three.four million in its latest spherical of funding in December 2020 from Siana Capital. Previously, it experienced raised a total of $four.5 million from traders such as Facts Edge, Asha Effects and Greater Capital.