Bengaluru, July 10 || To strengthen India's agriculture sector and make AI models more sensitive to the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity, Google on Thursday launched a new agricultural monitoring and event detection (AMED) application programming interface (API).
The company also announced a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur to build localised datasets on India’s rich cultural tapestry. It will help in equipping global Large Language Models with better linguistic and cultural context at the local level.
The new mechanism will provide information on crops and field activity across India that will eventually empower the ecosystem to build targeted solutions that support agricultural productivity and resilience, the global tech giant said in a statement.
The API details the type of crop on individual fields across India, as well as each field’s size and corresponding sowing and harvesting dates. It will also provide historical information of last three years about the agricultural activity in each field.