Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
For generations, smallholder farmers in rural India have had to travel into town, consult unreliable sources, and guess when it came to protecting their crops. The information they needed was never close enough — or fast enough.
FarmerChat, an AI-powered application developed by Digital Green and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, is changing that. By delivering contextual, timely agricultural advice in farmers' own languages — by text, photo, or voice — FarmerChat is closing one of the most persistent gaps in smallholder agriculture.
In this short film, farmers from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh share how FarmerChat helped save a potato crop from frost, improve fish farming yields, and manage everything from eggplant pests to wheat irrigation — all from their phones, without leaving home.
For generations, smallholder farmers in rural India have had to travel into town, consult unreliable sources, and guess when it came to protecting their crops. The information they needed was never close enough — or fast enough.
FarmerChat, an AI-powered application developed by Digital Green and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, is changing that. By delivering contextual, timely agricultural advice in farmers' own languages — by text, photo, or voice — FarmerChat is closing one of the most persistent gaps in smallholder agriculture.
In this short film, farmers from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh share how FarmerChat helped save a potato crop from frost, improve fish farming yields, and manage everything from eggplant pests to wheat irrigation — all from their phones, without leaving home.
