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Chennai’s
food and agriculture industry,
in focus.
The companies, capital and talent shaping food and agriculture in Chennai. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
MEET THE COMPANIESExplore Chennai’s food and agriculture leaders
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
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Explore Chennai’s food and agriculture leaders
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Startup discovery
Recorded classifications onlyFood and Agriculture industry KPIs in Chennai
A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
28 of 485 tracked companies have open roles.
31 of 485 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 68 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 87.6% of disclosed capital, while 93.6% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATIONHow Chennai food and agriculture has grown
Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
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How Chennai food and agriculture has grown
Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Disclosed funding by year
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
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| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.21M | 15 | 3 |
| 2017 | $28.88M | 19 | 5 |
| 2018 | $31.2M | 22 | 4 |
| 2019 | $61.92M | 21 | 4 |
| 2020 | $64.6M | 23 | 6 |
| 2021 | $21.19M | 27 | 7 |
| 2022 | $23.71M | 27 | 8 |
| 2023 | $3.68M | 21 | 5 |
| 2024 | $48.34M | 11 | 6 |
| 2025 | $286.43M | 3 | 4 |
Funding concentration
Share of all disclosed company funding.
- Samunnati78.9%
- Manna Foods5.2%
- Tirumala Milk3.5%
- Other companies12.4%
Funding by stage
71 recorded rounds since 2016
Investors appearing most often
Recorded participation in food and agriculture company rounds since 2016.
- 01Elevar Equity 6 rounds
- 02Accel 4 rounds
- 03Ravichandran Sargunaraj 4 rounds
- 04E Nandhakumar 4 rounds
- 05Vignesh Ramanujam 3 rounds
- 06Spoonfeed 3 rounds
- 07Mohan K 3 rounds
- 08Prakash Katama 3 rounds
- 09Singhvi Heritage 3 rounds
- 010Primepropertyholdingslimited 2 rounds
Recent recorded rounds
Latest recorded rounds · USDLargest and notable recorded rounds
Each card is one recorded roundBacked by Accel and Elevar Equity and others.
Backed by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia.
Backed by responsAbility and Accel and others.
Backed by Accel and TIAA and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by M Mahadevan.
Backed by Elevar Equity and Amol Patil and others.
Backed by ATIF and Elevar Equity.
Backed by Vaidyanathan Shankar and Venkataramani Srivathsan and others.
Backed by Indigram labs and Imediablitz Solutions and others.
THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITYRevenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
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Revenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · annual statements grouped by reported fiscal year; exact entity periods remain on preview rows · 134 reporting entities from 178 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Chennai market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
97 of 134 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Annual account trend
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
Profitability has two perspectives
FY2025 · 134 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaleesuwari ↗U15142TN1984PTC010763 | ₹5,280.5 crore | ₹163.7 crore | +3.1% | — | ₹1,954.9 crore |
| TAFE ↗U29211TN2005PLC055476 | ₹4,389.3 crore | ₹679.0 crore | +15.5% | — | ₹6,216.4 crore |
| EID Parry ↗L24211TN1975PLC006989 | ₹3,168.1 crore | ₹-428.3 crore | -13.5% | — | ₹4,407.5 crore |
| Southern Petrochemical Industries ↗L11101TN1969PLC005778 | ₹3,086.3 crore | ₹130.8 crore | +4.2% | — | ₹2,134.8 crore |
| Jeyyam Global Foods ↗L15400TN2008PLC066955 | ₹762.4 crore | ₹22.1 crore | +2.9% | — | ₹254.5 crore |
| Thalappakatti ↗U55101TN1998PTC101352 | ₹406.2 crore | ₹7.3 crore | +1.8% | — | ₹157.2 crore |
| SS Hyderabad Biryani ↗U15122TN2009PTC073183 | ₹378.1 crore | ₹5.8 crore | +1.5% | — | ₹47.8 crore |
| Value Ingredients ↗U15490TN2014PTC097390 | ₹219.5 crore | ₹5.3 crore | +2.4% | — | ₹158.3 crore |
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Coverage, calculations & financial sources
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
Web traffic, app reach and release cadence
How the Chennai companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
Most-installed apps
26 of these companies (5.3%) publish at least one Android app — 41 apps in all, carrying 994.9K installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAP Farmer AppHAP | 166.6K | — | Business |
| MSAMBMsamb | 160.3K | — | Productivity |
| Uzhavarbumi: Pure Cow Milk AppUzhavarbumi | 152.9K | — | Food & Drink |
| HAP Business PortalHAP | 84.6K | — | Business |
| SS Hyderabad BiryaniSS Hyderabad Biryani | 73K | — | Business |
| Annam MilkAnnam Milk | 71K | — | Food & Drink |
| Aasife Biriyani Food DeliveryAasife Biryani | 67.9K | — | Food & Drink |
| Scheme MitraMahesh Value Products | 42K | — | Business |
| JU Agri DealerJU Agri Sciences | 28.1K | — | Business |
| The Meat Chop - Seafood & MeatThe Meat chop | 26.7K | — | Shopping |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
App reach by segment
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q2–2026Q1).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Beverage Products | 17 | 572.7K | HAP Farmer App 166.6K | |
| Services For Crop Farming | 5 | 203.7K | MSAMB 160.3K | |
| Food Service Chains | 3 | 141K | SS Hyderabad Biryani 73K | |
| Crop Inputs | 4 | 43.4K | JU Agri Dealer 28.1K | |
| Restaurants | 2 | 28.1K | The Meat Chop - Seafood & Meat 26.7K | |
| Crop Equipment | 4 | 20.9K | eVR 20K | |
| Waste & Water Management | 4 | 14.3K | SMART MOTOR PUMP CONTROLLER 9.1K | |
| Food Processing | 5 | 13.7K | EID Farmers Connect 8.7K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
INSIDE THE INDUSTRYThe Chennai food and agriculture market map
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
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The Chennai food and agriculture market map
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
Where companies are building
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
Food & beverage products
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
8 companies hiring · $68.02M disclosed funding
Explore in RadarHow companies make money
Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.
THE COMPANIES IN MOTIONWho is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
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Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
The Rs1.56bn ($17.2m) deal, struck through the conglomerate’s FMCG arm Reliance Consumer Products, adds a “key player” in product areas such as millets, oats and multigrain products, the company said.
TAFE acquired the shareholding in AGCO Corporation in 2012, becoming its single largest shareholder and a strategic long-term investor.
So far, the company has raised ₹590 crore in equity.
In September of this quarter, private equity firm Westbridge Capital invested $72 million in Kovai Pazhamudir Nilayam as part of a fresh funding round.
Aer... has raised $1.5 million in a landmark funding round led by Callapina Capital and Rezwan Razack of Prestige Group.
Dolly Khanna has made a fresh investment in Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd, acquiring 31,37,884 shares, which represent a 1.68 percent stake with a current value of Rs. 27.26 crore.
Tamil Nadu-based new-age tea retail chain Chai Kings has raised $3 million (around ₹24 crore) in the Series A funding round from packaged tea company A.V. Thomas and Co. (AVT).
Initial public offering of up to (*) equity shares of face value of Rs. 10 each (the equity shares) of Capricorn Food Products India Limited, (the company or the issuer) for cash at a price of Rs. (*) per equity share (including a share premium of Rs. (*) per equity share) (the offer price) aggregating up to Rs. (*) Crores (the offer). The offer comprises a fresh issue of (*) equity shares aggregating up to Rs. 171 Crores by the company (the fresh issue) and an offer for sale of up to 7,643,000 equity shares consisting of up to 720,825 equity shares by Rahoul jain (the promoter selling shareholder), up to 4,482,000 equity shares by Milestone I and up to 277,700 equity shares by milestone trust (the investor selling shareholders) and up to 2,162,475 equity shares by Shuchi Jain (the other selling shareholder) (the promoter selling shareholder, investor selling shareholders and other selling shareholder collectively, the selling shareholders) aggregating to Rs. (*) Crores (the offer for sale). The offer shall constitute (*)% of the fully diluted post offer paid-up equity share capital of the company.The price band and the minimum bid lot will be decided by the company.The face value of the equity shares is Rs. 10 each and the offer price is (*) times the face value of the equity shares.
Hatsun Agro, a major private sector dairy company, is acquiring Milk Mantra Dairy for Rs 233 crore to strengthen presence in Odisha and Eastern India.
CookieMan, operated by Australian Foods India Private Limited, has appointed Saibal Chandra Banerjee as Business Head – Trade Sales, marking a strategic step in its transition from experience-led retail to a broader FMCG-driven growth model.
Full recorded event mix
Top 10 categories among 236 recorded events in the 24-month window.
IPO pipeline
3 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO1 reports
IPO · NSE17 reports
IPO · NSE SME9 reports
Leadership moves
8 tracked people moves
Appointment Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Appointment Business Head – Trade Sales
Appointment Group Chief Financial Officer
Appointment Managing Director, Ice Cream Division, Havmor Ice Cream
Appointment Founder & CEO
Appointment Group Chief Technology Officer of Samunnati
Appointment President of ACMA
Contract wins
5 recorded customer wins
Litigation
9 tracked suits
contempt petition over termination of brand licence agreements without noticeCivil · Filed
trademark ownership dispute of the Massey Ferguson brand in IndiaCivil · Ongoing
Earnings pulse
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 68 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Mergers and acquisitions
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliance Consumer Products→Manna Foods ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-13 | Not stated in snapshot |
| TAFE→eicher | 2025-10-14 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| TAFE→agco | 2025-10-14 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| Samunnati→kamatan | Completed | 2025-10-10 | Not stated in snapshot |
| TAFE→efarmer | Completed | 2025-08-24 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Dolly Khanna→Southern Petrochemical Industries ↗ | Announced | 2025-07-24 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITYThe talent market
76 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 91-posting snapshot covers 9 employers.
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The talent market
76 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 91-posting snapshot covers 9 employers.
Most advertised job titles
0 tracked postings mention remote work.
The seniority mix
37 postings specify a level.
Skills employers mention
Top skills across 91 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Companies hiring
Large employers
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| TAFE ↗ | 5,001 |
| HAP ↗ | 4,857 |
| Kovai Pazhamudir Nilayam ↗ | 3,751 |
| Indian Potash Limited ↗ | 3,750 |
| Aachi Group ↗ | 2,082 |
| Apollo Sindoori ↗ | 1,340 |
| KALS ↗ | 750 |
| Southern Petrochemical Industries ↗ | 719 |
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELDFounders and leaders
229 founders and chief executives across 192 companies.
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Founders and leaders
229 founders and chief executives across 192 companies.
Anil Kumar G
Samunnati ↗Ex-CEO IFMR Rural Channels & Services, ICICI Bank, Canara Bank
Murugan S
Manna Foods ↗Southern Health Foods, ex-Dominos Pizza Jubilant Foodworks, ex-Kansai Nerolac Paints, Xavier Institute of Management, 1999
Narendra Malhotra
Oriental Cuisines ↗Ex-Co-Founder-Dil Foods, Oriental Cuisines, OLIVE BAR & KITCHEN
Prasanna Manogaran
Aqgromalin ↗Aqgromalin, ex-Talentsprint, ex-Axiom Academy, Anna university
Balaji Sadagopan
Chai Kings ↗Chai Kings, ex-Studio Magic, ex-Jbs Ventures, Bangalore University, 2000
Shreyas Raghav
Funk Foods ↗Ex-TCS, Citibank, Barclays Bank, Citigroup Global Services. Loyola Institute of Business Administration 2004
Sijil Karim
Value Ingredients ↗Ex-IFFCO, Vallabhdas Kanji. Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur BSc 1997, Institute of Rural Management Anand MBA 1999
Uvais Karan
Saaral ↗Mookambigai College of Engineering BE, IIM Kozhikode
Vidur Maheswari
Chaiwaale ↗Harvard University 2014, King's College London BBA 2015
Venkatesh Deivanayagam
BENANI FOODS ↗Ex-Infosys Technologies, Tesco, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra. Sathyabama University BE 1998
Anupam Saluja
CookieMan ↗Ex-Pizza Corner, Jaypee Hotels.
Vetrivel Palani
Uzhavarbumi ↗Ex-Zoho, Sutherland, HCL Technologies. Alpha Arts and Science College Porur BCA 2015
Education networks
10 profiles with education records.
Prior employers
1 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
NEWS INTELLIGENCEHow this industry appears in the news
2,822 articles in the measured 12-month window.
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How this industry appears in the news
2,822 articles in the measured 12-month window.
News volume trends
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chennai · articles per complete quarter
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| Quarter | Articles |
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| 2021Q2 | 426 |
| 2021Q3 | 590 |
| 2021Q4 | 587 |
| 2022Q1 | 590 |
| 2022Q2 | 589 |
| 2022Q3 | 680 |
| 2022Q4 | 635 |
| 2023Q1 | 789 |
| 2023Q2 | 719 |
| 2023Q3 | 943 |
| 2023Q4 | 832 |
| 2024Q1 | 757 |
| 2024Q2 | 746 |
| 2024Q3 | 820 |
| 2024Q4 | 938 |
| 2025Q1 | 1,004 |
| 2025Q2 | 624 |
| 2025Q3 | 716 |
| 2025Q4 | 766 |
| 2026Q1 | 694 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
Tone of coverage over time
Most-covered companies
Company share of voice
352 recorded company events across 29 companies; percentages use that event total.
Leading coverage topics
Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chennai · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Topics gaining and losing attention
India comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| tariff structure agriculture | 680 | 435 | 56% |
| master farmer programs | 679 | 399 | 70% |
| youth agriculture programs | 628 | 411 | 53% |
| tariff negotiations | 588 | 282 | 109% |
| agribusiness education | 525 | 357 | 47% |
| trade facilitation commitments | 516 | 166 | 211% |
| commodity export strategies | 516 | 358 | 44% |
| trade barrier reduction | 480 | 201 | 139% |
| agricultural extension outreach | 435 | 217 | 100% |
| crop adaptation research | 425 | 276 | 54% |
| stock performance | 807 | 1,242 | -35% |
| stock indices | 403 | 777 | -48% |
| ipo prospectus | 317 | 556 | -43% |
| pre-ipo valuation | 246 | 464 | -47% |
| ipo | 258 | 456 | -43% |
Event and signal lenses
India comparison coverage
Regulatory Risk
156,776 classified articlesstock performance, stock indices, trade compliance agriculture
46.8% critical · 39.8% positiveFunding Momentum
34,580 classified articlespre-ipo valuation, ipo prospectus, agricultural venture capital
48.0% critical · 54.6% positiveGrowth
70,581 classified articleseconomic output growth, gdp growth rate, economic growth statistics
35.6% critical · 50.3% positiveFood and Agriculture coverage tagged Chennai. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
RESEARCH SIGNALSWhat Food and Agriculture research is working on
1,113 papers in the recorded india scope.
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What Food and Agriculture research is working on
1,113 papers in the recorded india scope.
Research orientation
Contribution mix
Tone counts: 1,071 positive · 16 neutral · 26 negative.
- Agriculture131 papers
- Food security29 papers
- Climate change28 papers
- Internet of Things19 papers
- Precision agriculture13 papers
- Sustainability12 papers
- Productivity11 papers
- Livelihood9 papers
Landmark: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Smart Agriculture: Applications, Requirements, and Challenges
- Agriculture24 papers
- Internet of Things4 papers
- Agricultural economics3 papers
- Weed3 papers
- Tillage3 papers
- Irrigation3 papers
- Weed control3 papers
- Food security2 papers
Landmark: Climate smart agriculture, farm household typologies and food security
- Agriculture497 papers
- Internet of Things170 papers
- Precision agriculture96 papers
- Agricultural engineering90 papers
- Cloud computing73 papers
- Wireless sensor network40 papers
- Robot40 papers
- Convolutional neural network36 papers
Landmark: IOT Based Smart Agriculture System
Leading institutions
Leading researchers
Highly cited breakthrough-labelled papers
- An efficient LoRa-based smart agriculture management and monitoring system using wireless sensor networks211 citations
- sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture130 citations
- Internet of Things application for implementation of smart agriculture system125 citations
- PEFL: Deep Privacy-Encoding-Based Federated Learning Framework for Smart Agriculture116 citations
- Blockchain-Based Cloud-Enabled Security Monitoring Using Internet of Things in Smart Agriculture111 citations
Common problems researchers identify
140 papers · 4 recurring themes
Common problems researchers identify · 01Climate Impact on Food Production
52 papers37.1% of this theme group
Researchers highlight how climate change threatens food security and raises greenhouse‑gas emissions in Indian agriculture.
Climate change (29) · Food security (21) · Agriculture (49) · Greenhouse gas (10)
Climate Smart Agriculture Practices in India
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Strategies for Enhancing Productivity, Resilience and Sustainability
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2178.9 |
| 2023 | 2250.8 |
| 2024 | 2192.9 |
| 2025 | 2416.6 |
Common problems researchers identify · 02Robotics and Precision Farming Challenges
44 papers31.4% of this theme group
Papers discuss technical and adoption hurdles for robotics and precision agriculture tools in Indian farms.
Agriculture (38) · Precision agriculture (10) · Robot (4) · Robotics (4)
Smart agriculture and nanotechnology: Technology, challenges, and new perspective
Agricultural Robots: The Applications of Robotics in Smart Agriculture: towards More Advanced Agro Informatics Practice
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 855.1 |
| 2023 | 884.2 |
| 2024 | 877.7 |
| 2025 | 922.5 |
Common problems researchers identify · 03Economic Barriers to Technology Adoption
23 papers16.4% of this theme group
Studies examine how profitability, market access, and extension services limit uptake of new agricultural technologies.
Agriculture (17) · Agricultural economics (5) · Agricultural extension (4) · Marketing (3)
Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption
Affordances and agricultural technology
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 734.1 |
| 2023 | 717.3 |
| 2024 | 545.0 |
| 2025 | 307.8 |
Common problems researchers identify · 04IoT Security and Automation Risks
21 papers15.0% of this theme group
Works point out vulnerabilities and data‑security concerns in IoT‑enabled farming systems.
Internet of Things (18) · Agriculture (21) · Automation (3) · Computer security (3)
Smart Agriculture: The Future of Agriculture using AI and IoT
An Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture for Smart Agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 949.3 |
| 2023 | 945.6 |
| 2024 | 890.4 |
| 2025 | 802.2 |
Cautions
23 papers · 3 recurring themes
Cautions · 01IoT Implementation Caveats
10 papers43.5% of this theme group
Authors urge careful assessment of infrastructure and scalability when deploying IoT solutions for smart agriculture.
Internet of Things (4) · Agriculture (8)
Enabling Technologies in Smart Agriculture: A Way Forward Towards Future Fields
A Comprehensive Study of Using Internet of Things (IOT) in Monitoring System for Smart Agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 524.7 |
| 2023 | 531.1 |
| 2024 | 588.5 |
| 2025 | 562.9 |
Cautions · 02Climate‑Smart Practices Trade‑offs
7 papers30.4% of this theme group
Research warns that climate‑smart interventions may affect weed dynamics and household food security.
Climate change (3) · Agricultural economics (3) · Agriculture (6) · Natural resource economics (2)
Climate smart agriculture, farm household typologies and food security
Climate-smart agriculture practices influence weed density and diversity in cereal-based agri-food systems of western Indo-Gangetic plains
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2476.5 |
| 2023 | 2521.8 |
| 2024 | 2553.2 |
| 2025 | 2497.9 |
Cautions · 03Tech Over‑Commercialization Concerns
4 papers17.4% of this theme group
Papers caution against unchecked commodification of agri‑tech and over‑reliance on AI without robust evidence.
Agriculture (4)
The orbit of commodified technoscience: innovations in agricultural technology in India
Will Artificial Intelligence be a Performance Booster to Agritech Start-Up?: Empirical Evidence from Emerging Economy
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1875.8 |
| 2023 | 1913.7 |
| 2024 | 1743.1 |
| 2025 | 1853.4 |
A further 2 papers sit in smaller themes.
Opportunities
686 papers · 7 recurring themes
Opportunities · 01IoT‑Driven Precision Management
225 papers32.8% of this theme group
Opportunities focus on leveraging IoT and cloud platforms to enhance real‑time farm monitoring and decision‑making.
Internet of Things (160) · Agriculture (170) · Cloud computing (48) · Precision agriculture (48)
IoT Based Smart Agriculture Management System
Smart agriculture system using IoT
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1075.2 |
| 2023 | 1070.3 |
| 2024 | 1072.3 |
| 2025 | 1179.8 |
Opportunities · 02Machine‑Learning for Yield Improvement
126 papers18.4% of this theme group
Studies explore advanced ML models to boost crop yields and optimize agricultural engineering processes.
Agriculture (100) · Yield (17) · Crop yield (10) · Agricultural engineering (23)
Development of High-Quality Crops using Optimized Machine Learning in Smart Agriculture Environment
Smart Agriculture Using Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 277.9 |
| 2023 | 286.1 |
| 2024 | 302.1 |
| 2025 | 267.3 |
Opportunities · 03Wireless Sensors for Resource Efficiency
107 papers15.6% of this theme group
Research highlights sensor networks that reduce energy use and detect intrusions in multi‑crop systems.
Wireless sensor network (30) · Agriculture (56) · Energy consumption (7) · Intrusion detection system (6)
Modelling a smart agriculture system for multiple cropping using wireless sensor networks
Smart Sensors for Smart Agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 294.4 |
| 2023 | 279.4 |
| 2024 | 195.9 |
| 2025 | 236.8 |
Opportunities · 04Deep Learning for Disease Diagnosis
82 papers12.0% of this theme group
Papers present convolutional neural networks that identify plant diseases and support rapid field diagnostics.
Convolutional neural network (27) · Transfer of learning (10) · Plant disease (12) · Agriculture (47)
Plant Diseases Concept in Smart Agriculture Using Deep Learning
Deep Learning Innovations for Improved Plant Leaf Disease Detection in Smart Agriculture
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 61.5 |
| 2023 | 67.8 |
| 2024 | 42.8 |
| 2025 | 65.9 |
Opportunities · 05Climate‑Smart Strategies for Food Security
59 papers8.6% of this theme group
Works propose integrated approaches to sustain production and lower emissions under changing climate conditions.
Climate change (22) · Food security (18) · Agriculture (52) · Greenhouse gas (7)
Agricultural sustainability under emerging climatic variability: the role of climate-smart agriculture and relevant policies in India
Climate-smart Agriculture, Productivity and Food Security in India
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2178.9 |
| 2023 | 2250.8 |
| 2024 | 2192.9 |
| 2025 | 2416.6 |
Opportunities · 06Autonomous Agricultural Robotics
50 papers7.3% of this theme group
Research showcases mobile robots that automate fertilization, monitoring, and other field tasks.
Robot (37) · Mobile robot (8) · Robotics (6) · Agriculture (35)
Smart Multipurpose Agricultural Robot
Agricultural Robot for Automized Fertilizing and Vigilance for Crops
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 827.0 |
| 2023 | 847.9 |
| 2024 | 840.1 |
| 2025 | 849.0 |
Opportunities · 07Economic Impacts of Mechanization
37 papers5.4% of this theme group
Studies assess how new machinery and technology adoption can reduce poverty and improve nutrition.
Agricultural economics (8) · Agriculture (28) · Agricultural machinery (6) · Agency (4)
Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania
Agricultural technology adoption and child nutrition enhancement: improved maize varieties in rural Ethiopia
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| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 371.8 |
| 2023 | 355.6 |
| 2024 | 340.9 |
| 2025 | 217.8 |
How this field compares with the research baseline
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Promising | 43.8% | 37.1% |
| Breakthrough | 21.2% | 25.6% |
| Descriptive | 15.6% | 18.0% |
| Problem-identifying | 13.4% | 9.9% |
| Comparative | 3.3% | 3.7% |
| Cautionary | 2.4% | 4.6% |
| Critical | 0.2% | 1.0% |
Concerns receiving less research attention
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceRetraction Notice: Exploring the Role of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning for Smart Agriculture | 24 | 2.32% | 2 (8.3%) | 1.19% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chainAn Application Framework for IoTs Enabled Smart Agriculture Waste Recycle Management System | 2 | 0.19% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.04% |
| Energy & datacenter footprint | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.12% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Labour & data work | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.21% |
| Safety & misuse | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Bias & fairness | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.04% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: India. This may be broader than the company geography.
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