In rural Maharashtra, timely access to agricultural insights can make or break a harvest. Sudden unseasonal rainfall, fast-spreading crop diseases, and fluctuating Mandi prices directly impact a farmer's livelihood. While modern digital tools exist, digital literacy and complex smartphone UIs often stand in the way.
To bridge this divide, I spent the last 10 days building AgriAlert under the Farm & Field track of the #VoiceForBharat Challenge.
AgriAlert is a Marathi AI voice assistant designed to provide real-time weather advisories, Mandi market rates, crop care guidance, and proactive disaster warnings through voice conversations on the web and direct mobile phone calls.
AgriAlert is built on a real-time conversational voice pipeline:
[ Farmer Voice Input (Web/Phone) ]
