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THE CHENNAI EDITION 2026

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.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Food and Agriculture illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Chennai’s food and agriculture leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Food and Agriculture company highlights in Chennai, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
Samunnatisamunnati.com$510.03M456
Manna Foodsmannafoods.in$33.72M31
Tirumala Milktirumalamilk.com$22.9M500
Oriental Cuisinesorientalcuisines.in$22.46M2
Capricorn Food Products Indiacapricorngroup.com$19.92M155
Aqgromalinaqgromalin.com$6.26M23
Chai Kingschaikings.com$4.35M317
Funk Foodsfunkfoods.com$4.06M
Value Ingredientsvalueingredients.com6 roles193$22.97MFYFY2025 filing
Rassenserassense.com4 roles
Thalappakattithalappakatti.com4 roles3,057$42.51MFYFY2025 filing
Litmuslitmusfoodanalytics.com3 roles5
Lotte Indialotteindia.com3 roles509
Apollo Sindooriapollosindoori.com2 roles1,340
Brownie Heavenbrownieheavenindia.com2 roles
Chaicupchaicup.co2 roles92
Aachi Foodsaachifoods.com2,072
Aachi Groupaachigroup.com2,082Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Arun Icecreamsarunicecreams.in4,857
HAPhap.in4,857Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Indian Potash Limitedindianpotash.org3,750
KALSkals.co.in750Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Kaleesuwarikaleesuwari.com47$552.62MFYFY2025 filing
Kovai Pazhamudir Nilayamkovaipazhamudir.com3,751
24 featured companies

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Startup discovery

Recorded classifications only
THE KEY SIGNALS

Food and Agriculture industry KPIs in Chennai

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation5.8%

28 of 485 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation6.4%

31 of 485 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share87.6%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$696.81K

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.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Chennai food and agriculture has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Chennai food and agriculture
$0$81.63M$163.27M$244.9M$326.53M2016: $1.21M20162017: $28.88M20172018: $31.2M20182019: $61.92M20192020: $64.6M20202021: $21.19M20212022: $23.71M20222023: $3.68M20232024: $48.34M20242025: $286.43M2025
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Annual food and agriculture funding and company formation in Chennai
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$1.21M153
2017$28.88M195
2018$31.2M224
2019$61.92M214
2020$64.6M236
2021$21.19M277
2022$23.71M278
2023$3.68M215
2024$48.34M116
2025$286.43M34
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

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

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel43 60.6%
Series A–B10 14.1%
Series C+ / PE7 9.9%
Grants, debt & other11 15.5%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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₹ crore · standalone

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.

Revenue in covered accounts₹44,989.5 crore

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Chennai market sales.

Net profit / loss₹1,535.8 crore

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin+3.4%

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue₹26.4 crore

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities+72.4%

97 of 134 covered entities.

Top-five concentration+45.6%

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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CHENNAI · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does food and agriculture compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

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.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

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.

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).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Food & Beverage Products17572.7KHAP Farmer App 166.6K
Services For Crop Farming5203.7KMSAMB 160.3K
Food Service Chains3141KSS Hyderabad Biryani 73K
Crop Inputs443.4KJU Agri Dealer 28.1K
Restaurants228.1KThe Meat Chop - Seafood & Meat 26.7K
Crop Equipment420.9KeVR 20K
Waste & Water Management414.3KSMART MOTOR PUMP CONTROLLER 9.1K
Food Processing513.7KEID 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 INDUSTRY

The Chennai food and agriculture market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Food & beverage products119
Internet first brands38
Uber for grocery delivery14
B2c grocery delivery14
Food tech14
B2c e-commerce14
Consumer digital12
Internet first snack brands6

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Food & beverage products

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

119companies
6.7%have hiring activity

8 companies hiring · $68.02M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

E-commerce - product376
Physical commerce227
Advertising51
Fee-for-service50
E-commerce - service44
Commission on transaction44
Subscription10
Sponsorship7
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsmannafoods.in ↗

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.

Mergers & acquisitionstafe.com ↗

TAFE acquired the shareholding in AGCO Corporation in 2012, becoming its single largest shareholder and a strategic long-term investor.

Funding roundssamunnati.com ↗

So far, the company has raised ₹590 crore in equity.

Funding roundskovaipazhamudir.com ↗

In September of this quarter, private equity firm Westbridge Capital invested $72 million in Kovai Pazhamudir Nilayam as part of a fresh funding round.

Funding roundsaeronero.com ↗

Aer... has raised $1.5 million in a landmark funding round led by Callapina Capital and Rezwan Razack of Prestige Group.

Mergers & acquisitionsspic.in ↗

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.

Funding roundschaikings.com ↗

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).

IPO activitycapricorngroup.com ↗

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.

Mergers & acquisitionshap.in ↗

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.

Leadership movescookiemanindia.com ↗

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.

Earnings
102
Leadership moves
22
Funding rounds
22
IPO activity
20
Lawsuit
17
Company announcements
12
Mergers & acquisitions
12
Contracts
11
New products
8
Capital infusions
5
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Leadership moves

8 tracked people moves

TAFE ↗
Deepanjan Roy

Appointment Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing

CookieMan ↗
Saibal Chandra Banerjee

Appointment Business Head – Trade Sales

Samunnati ↗
Vinod Panicker

Appointment Group Chief Financial Officer

Lotte India ↗
Debabrata Mukherjee

Appointment Managing Director, Ice Cream Division, Havmor Ice Cream

Samunnati ↗
Anilkumar SG

Appointment Founder & CEO

Samunnati ↗
Suresh Rajagopalan

Appointment Group Chief Technology Officer of Samunnati

JK Fenner ↗
Vikrampati Singhania

Appointment President of ACMA

Contract wins

5 recorded customer wins

TAFE ↗

Customer: government of tamil naduManufacturing

TAFE ↗

Customer: AGCO Corporation

Pradhin ↗

Customer: reliance industriesSteel

Pradhin ↗

Customer: pythonChemicals

Litigation

9 tracked suits

Company
tafe v agco

contempt petition over termination of brand licence agreements without noticeCivil · Filed

Company
tractors and farm equipment v massey ferguson

trademark ownership dispute of the Massey Ferguson brand in IndiaCivil · Ongoing

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

19companies
99period observations
9.1%median reported growth

Median across 68 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Reliance Consumer ProductsManna Foods ↗Announced2026-02-13Not stated in snapshot
TAFEeicher2025-10-14Not stated in snapshot
TAFEagco2025-10-14Not stated in snapshot
SamunnatikamatanCompleted2025-10-10Not stated in snapshot
TAFEefarmerCompleted2025-08-24Not stated in snapshot
Dolly KhannaSouthern Petrochemical Industries ↗Announced2025-07-24Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

76 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 91-posting snapshot covers 9 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Lead Ai Engineer11
Hardware Design Engineer6
Lead Software Engineer4
Robotics Engineer4
Embedded Hardware Engineer3
Software Engineer Golang Developer2
0 internship postings

0 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

37 postings specify a level.

unspecified
54
lead
24
senior
5
entry
4
manager
3
intern
1

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 91 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Python
30
Docker
17
Pytorch
13
Git
11
Ros2
10
Aws
9
Mqtt
9
Kubernetes
8
Altium
7
Azure
7
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

229 founders and chief executives across 192 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

10 profiles with education records.

Anna University
4
IE Business School
1
Monash University
1
IIT Madras
1
Harvard University
1
King’s College London
1
Indian School of Business
1
University of Delhi
1

Prior employers

1 profiles with prior-work records.

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

2,822 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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2,822articles in the measured year
694articles in 2026Q1
78.8%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chennai · articles per complete quarter

02895778661,1552021Q2: 4262021Q22021Q3: 5902021Q4: 5872022Q1: 5902022Q2: 5892022Q22022Q3: 6802022Q4: 6352023Q1: 7892023Q2: 7192023Q22023Q3: 9432023Q4: 8322024Q1: 7572024Q2: 7462024Q22024Q3: 8202024Q4: 9382025Q1: 1,0042025Q2: 6242025Q22025Q3: 7162025Q4: 7662026Q1: 6942026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q2426
2021Q3590
2021Q4587
2022Q1590
2022Q2589
2022Q3680
2022Q4635
2023Q1789
2023Q2719
2023Q3943
2023Q4832
2024Q1757
2024Q2746
2024Q3820
2024Q4938
2025Q11,004
2025Q2624
2025Q3716
2025Q4766
2026Q1694

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
1,232 positive · 14 neutral · 427 negative
2022
2,009 positive · 19 neutral · 464 negative
2023
2,474 positive · 29 neutral · 777 negative
2024
2,523 positive · 28 neutral · 705 negative
2025
2,447 positive · 26 neutral · 633 negative

Leading coverage topics

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chennai · ranked by full-period article count.

New Product Launches And Innovations6,867 articles in the full recorded period
1,903 recent · 1,654 prior
Indian Curry Variations6,337 articles in the full recorded period
2,057 recent · 1,890 prior
Strategic Partnerships And Collaborations5,563 articles in the full recorded period
1,609 recent · 1,302 prior
Rural Community Development Programs5,468 articles in the full recorded period
1,703 recent · 1,075 prior
Agricultural Export And International Trade5,264 articles in the full recorded period
1,491 recent · 1,016 prior
Agricultural Insurance And Risk Management5,020 articles in the full recorded period
1,451 recent · 761 prior
Water Efficient Irrigation Technologies4,776 articles in the full recorded period
1,495 recent · 912 prior
Political Party Dynamics4,419 articles in the full recorded period
787 recent · 758 prior
Technology Adoption And Digital Transformation4,343 articles in the full recorded period
1,244 recent · 993 prior
Company Expansions And New Market Entries4,132 articles in the full recorded period
1,371 recent · 920 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

India comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
tariff structure agriculture68043556%
master farmer programs67939970%
youth agriculture programs62841153%
tariff negotiations588282109%
agribusiness education52535747%
trade facilitation commitments516166211%
commodity export strategies51635844%
trade barrier reduction480201139%
agricultural extension outreach435217100%
crop adaptation research42527654%
stock performance8071,242-35%
stock indices403777-48%
ipo prospectus317556-43%
pre-ipo valuation246464-47%
ipo258456-43%

Event and signal lenses

India comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

156,776 classified articles

stock performance, stock indices, trade compliance agriculture

46.8% critical · 39.8% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

34,580 classified articles

pre-ipo valuation, ipo prospectus, agricultural venture capital

48.0% critical · 54.6% positive
Rising

Growth

70,581 classified articles

economic output growth, gdp growth rate, economic growth statistics

35.6% critical · 50.3% positive

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chennai. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

RESEARCH SIGNALS

What Food and Agriculture research is working on

1,113 papers in the recorded india scope.

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1,113papers
8,585worldwide comparison pool
1,113India-affiliated papers

Research orientation

Promising
488
Breakthrough
236
Descriptive
174
Problem-identifying
149
Comparative
37
Cautionary
27
Critical
2

Contribution mix

Methods-led
583
Empirical
259
Reviews
208
Position pieces
58
Theoretical
5

Tone counts: 1,071 positive · 16 neutral · 26 negative.

Common problems researchers identify
151 papers · 13.6% of this field
  • 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

Cautions
27 papers · 2.4% of this field
  • 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

Opportunities
724 papers · 65.0% of this field
  • 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

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
2,547
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
1,659
Vellore Institute of Technology University
1,161
Borlaug Institute for South Asia
625
Sikkim University
490
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
406

Leading researchers

Robert B. Zougmoré
1,784
Bruce Campbell
1,110
Mathieu Ouédraogo
820
Philip K. Thornton
806
Samuel T. Partey
726
Leslie Lipper
698
Thippa Reddy Gadekallu
688
Arun Khatri‐Chhetri
621

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
4 cards

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Climate Impact on Food ProductionCommon problems researchers identify · 01

Climate Impact on Food Production

52 papers

37.1% 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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YearShare index
20222178.9
20232250.8
20242192.9
20252416.6
Robotics and Precision Farming ChallengesCommon problems researchers identify · 02

Robotics and Precision Farming Challenges

44 papers

31.4% 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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YearShare index
2022855.1
2023884.2
2024877.7
2025922.5
Economic Barriers to Technology AdoptionCommon problems researchers identify · 03

Economic Barriers to Technology Adoption

23 papers

16.4% 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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2022734.1
2023717.3
2024545.0
2025307.8
IoT Security and Automation RisksCommon problems researchers identify · 04

IoT Security and Automation Risks

21 papers

15.0% 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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2022949.3
2023945.6
2024890.4
2025802.2

Cautions

23 papers · 3 recurring themes
3 cards

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IoT Implementation CaveatsCautions · 01

IoT Implementation Caveats

10 papers

43.5% 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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2022524.7
2023531.1
2024588.5
2025562.9
Climate‑Smart Practices Trade‑offsCautions · 02

Climate‑Smart Practices Trade‑offs

7 papers

30.4% 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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YearShare index
20222476.5
20232521.8
20242553.2
20252497.9
Tech Over‑Commercialization ConcernsCautions · 03

Tech Over‑Commercialization Concerns

4 papers

17.4% 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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YearShare index
20221875.8
20231913.7
20241743.1
20251853.4

A further 2 papers sit in smaller themes.

Opportunities

686 papers · 7 recurring themes
7 cards

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IoT‑Driven Precision ManagementOpportunities · 01

IoT‑Driven Precision Management

225 papers

32.8% 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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20221075.2
20231070.3
20241072.3
20251179.8
Machine‑Learning for Yield ImprovementOpportunities · 02

Machine‑Learning for Yield Improvement

126 papers

18.4% 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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2022277.9
2023286.1
2024302.1
2025267.3
Wireless Sensors for Resource EfficiencyOpportunities · 03

Wireless Sensors for Resource Efficiency

107 papers

15.6% 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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YearShare index
2022294.4
2023279.4
2024195.9
2025236.8
Deep Learning for Disease DiagnosisOpportunities · 04

Deep Learning for Disease Diagnosis

82 papers

12.0% 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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YearShare index
202261.5
202367.8
202442.8
202565.9
Climate‑Smart Strategies for Food SecurityOpportunities · 05

Climate‑Smart Strategies for Food Security

59 papers

8.6% 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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YearShare index
20222178.9
20232250.8
20242192.9
20252416.6
Autonomous Agricultural RoboticsOpportunities · 06

Autonomous Agricultural Robotics

50 papers

7.3% 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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YearShare index
2022827.0
2023847.9
2024840.1
2025849.0
Economic Impacts of MechanizationOpportunities · 07

Economic Impacts of Mechanization

37 papers

5.4% 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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YearShare index
2022371.8
2023355.6
2024340.9
2025217.8

How this field compares with the research baseline

Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.

Research orientationThis fieldReference sample
Promising43.8%37.1%
Breakthrough21.2%25.6%
Descriptive15.6%18.0%
Problem-identifying13.4%9.9%
Comparative3.3%3.7%
Cautionary2.4%4.6%
Critical0.2%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 paperPapersShareRaised as a problemWorldwide share
Privacy & surveillanceRetraction Notice: Exploring the Role of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning for Smart Agriculture242.32%2 (8.3%)1.19%
Hardware, e-waste & supply chainAn Application Framework for IoTs Enabled Smart Agriculture Waste Recycle Management System20.19%0 (0.0%)0.04%
Energy & datacenter footprint00.0%0 (%)0.12%
Water use00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Carbon & emissions of compute00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Labour & data work00.0%0 (%)0.21%
Safety & misuse00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Bias & fairness00.0%0 (%)0.04%
Concentration of compute power00.0%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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