SLCM launches beta mobile app to test crop quality

New Delhi-based agri-logistics company Sohan Lal Commodity Administration Pvt Ltd (SLCM) on Wednesday released a beta variation of its top quality verify mobile app for agricultural commodities.

The app, claimed to be the initial of its variety, can detect a commodity’s top quality in just seconds. Introduced beneath SLCM’s proprietary AgriReach umbrella, the app can be downloaded absolutely free from Google Participate in store on mobile phones and pill PCs.

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The app, which will monitor the user via GPS, will be out there in English, Hindi and other regional languages. In the extensive time period, SLCM plans to demand farmers a nominal price to use the app.

A lot more generate by fiscal-close

To start out with, the app delivers success for wheat. End users must consider a photograph of the sample on the app and permit a number of seconds for the success. Before the close of the present-day fiscal, the company will add commodities this sort of as rice, maize, chana (gram), soyabean and guar (cluster bean) for top quality screening on the app.

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They started off with wheat since it is the greatest traded commodity in the region, reported Sandeep Sabharwal, SLCM Chief Government Officer (CEO).

SLCM, which delivers warehousing amenities for about 950 commodities, will give amenities for screening the top quality of a bulk of foodgrains via the app for the duration of the future fiscal. “Then we will prolong the amenities for vegetables and fruits,” reported Sabharwal.

“Our aim is to assistance farmers search logically at their crop. We also want to make crop screening scientific and clear. This app will be a sport changer in the commodities trade,” he reported.

Cons of labs

At this time, a laboratory exam of an agricultural commodity costs ₹840. Apart from, it will take 3-7 days for the comprehensive success. It will take some twenty five minutes to analyse a wheat whole lot to establish the presence of immature, dishevelled, weeviled and shrivelled grains aside from trash.

The lab reports “are prone to mistakes, inconsistent, non-clear and subjective,” reported Rakesh Kumar Rana, SLCM’s Chief Business enterprise Officer (Electronic Initiatives).

On the other hand, in rural spots, the commodity’s top quality is determined by traders and brokers from its physical attributes this sort of as color, damaged grains and presence of trash.

The success offered by the app are quickly compared with pre-fed knowledge in the back-close procedure, which often updates itself on a real-time foundation utilizing a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and device discovering (ML) with Python programming language.

“We will also store historical knowledge for the users’ ease,” Sabharwal reported.

eighty% precision

The app is the consequence of four several years of intensive research, with SLCM getting used for a patent in 2018 as AgriReach QC app. It has established apart ₹25 crore to establish the app, with ₹11 crore currently spent to start the beta variation.

“You can simply click and get a report in much less than 10 seconds. Farmers and traders can get reports on the top quality with no any human interference,” reported Rana.

According to Sabharwal, the success are agnostic of the total sample weight as they are based on the image.

At this time, the app demonstrates eighty for every cent of the success offered by labs accredited by the Countrywide Accreditation Board for Screening and Calibration. “We will soon realize ninety five for every cent precision,” reported the SLCM CEO, adding that far more functionalities will be out there, this sort of as supplying success as and when a whole lot is loaded on to a truck for shipping.

To a query, Sabharwal reported SLCM was functioning with States and other federal government bodies to deploy its solutions, like checking warehouses. “We are in talks with various organisations to provide our solutions,” he reported, adding that one particular of the targets of the app was to transform the habit of screening a commodity only bodily.

“We want steady, clear and traceable success at BIS requirements. For example, Canadian peas are graded as A, B and C and these are recognized throughout the world,” he reported.

‘Inclined to adapt’

On how appropriate the app would be to farmers and traders, the SLCM CEO reported there had been no personal warehouses seven several years back. “But now, we have many personal warehousing amenities. Persons are ready to adapt to improvements and this will be appropriate since the application of the app is with the customer,” he reported.

SLCM had about 2.5 lakh pictures of wheat samples taken to excellent its app and there had been checks and balances to be certain knowledge is not fudged.

“We prepare to provide a aspect of using numerous photographs or videos of trucks being loaded with a generate by clicking on a number of purposes. We will even have a aspect to consider a consolidated photo or online video of a truck loaded with gunny baggage of wheat or any other generate to be certain proper knowledge and success,” Rana reported.

SLCM plans to integrate customer and seller knowledge as the company employs virtually one.4 lakh trucks each thirty day period. The knowledge will be shared, with the user’s authorization, to be certain farmers get the correct rate, Sabharwal reported.