FarmerChat 2.0 saves farmers’ preferences, such as speaking to the digital assistant or uploading photos of the problems they face on the farm.
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Digital Green India has launched an upgraded version of its FarmerChat app, even as the number of users of the AI-powered farming advisory app has crossed 10 lakh.A company statement said FarmerChat 2.0 is a significantly upgraded version to make trusted, hyperlocal farming advice easier to access for millions more.The 10 lakh users is a milestone spanning farmers and frontline extension workers across the country. FarmerChat, available in 5 languages, offers timely, context-aware guidance across a farmer’s decisions, from crop and pest management to livestock care and weather, even in low-connectivity environments, the statement said.Tailored adviceDigital Green’s FarmerChat provides tailored advice for on-farm decisions. A conversational interface lets farmers ask questions by voice, photo or text — accommodating both low literacy and the reality that many field problems are easier to photograph than to name, it said.The app answers field-level questions across the farming cycle: crop planning, pest and disease management, livestock care, weather forecasts, and inputs. Fine-tuned language models, combined with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and expert-validated datasets, and refined through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), power the app. Digital Green offers FarmerChat at ₹33 per farmer per year, making it possible to reach more farmers. The app has responded to over 30 lakh queries, with women making up 45 per cent of its users. Inputs from farmersBut farmers themselves pointed to the next step. Over the year, they moved away from typing their questions, choosing instead to speak to the assistant or photograph the problem in their field, and, notably, those who used the image feature proved significantly more likely to act on the advice. FarmerChat 2.0 saves farmers' preferences, such as speaking to the digital assistant or uploading photos of the problems they face on the farm. The statement said Digital Green India aims to add another 35 lakh farmers to the platform by 2028, strengthening women farmers’ participation.“Everything in FarmerChat 2.0 came from listening to farmers. But it is still evolving. The next step is the Agricultural AI Harness, an ecosystem foundation where trusted services for advisory, weather, markets and schemes plug in, powered by reasoning and memory that knows each farmer’s context.”, said Nidhi Bhasin, CEO, Digital Green India.Published on August 3, 2026
