File picture: Farmers harvesting onions in a farm in Alwar district of Rajasthan
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The Rajasthan government and Wadhwani AI (LEHS AI Unit) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the deployment and integration of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solutions across the state’s agriculture ecosystem.Under the partnership, Wadhwani AI will serve as a technical partner to the state, supporting the deployment, integration, and implementation of AI-driven tools aligned with Rajasthan’s agricultural priorities and digital transformation initiatives.A media statement said the partnership aims to support Rajasthan’s ongoing efforts towards improving farmer access to timely advisories, strengthening field-level intelligence systems, enhancing agricultural data visibility, and enabling more responsive agriculture delivery mechanisms through AI solutions designed for Indian conditions.Significant potentialRajasthan offers significant potential for scalable AI deployment across crop advisory, pest and disease surveillance, farm-level digitisation, agricultural intelligence, and quality assessment, it said. The state also has a strong animal husbandry sector, complemented by substantial opportunities in agroforestry, enabling integrated and climate-resilient rural development interventions.The solutions to be deployed in the state include AgriVaani, CropAce, Soybean Grain Analyzer (SGA), and News Monitoring in Agriculture (NMA).AgriVaani is a multilingual, multimodal conversational AI app designed to provide tailored agricultural advisories to farmers and extension workers through voice and text interactions in local languages.CropAce is a computer vision-based AI solution designed to identify crop pests and diseases from field images and provide recommendations for timely intervention.SGA is an AI-powered smartphone app that uses computer-vision-based evaluation to objectively assess soyabean grain quality.Strengthening agri deliveryNMA is an AI-powered agriculture news monitoring solution designed to help agriculture departments track and respond to critical agriculture-related developments in near real time across English and regional languages.Quoting Naresh Kumar Goyal, Commissioner Agriculture of the Rajasthan government, the statement said: “Through this partnership with Wadhwani AI, we look forward to exploring and implementing AI-powered solutions that can strengthen agriculture delivery systems and improve outcomes for farmers across the state.”Neeraj Agrawal, Chief Program Officer of Wadhwani AI, said: “The solutions being explored under this collaboration span multiple aspects of the agricultural value chain from localised advisory and pest intelligence to digitised farm records and technology-enabled quality assessment. We look forward to supporting scalable, responsible AI deployments that can strengthen agriculture delivery systems and improve farmer outcomes across the state.”The partnership will also explore future AI-enabled use cases across Rajasthan’s agriculture ecosystem, including agricultural intelligence, predictive systems, and decision-support capabilities that can strengthen agriculture delivery at scale, the statement added.Published on May 26, 2026
