FarmerChat
- Original Title: FarmerChat
- Year: 2025
- Award: The World Summit Award
- Category: Environment & Green Energy
- Producer: Nidhi Bhasin / Gautam Mandewalker
- Country: India
- URL: https://digitalgreen.org/farmer.chat/
- Social:
FarmerChat, developed by Digital Green, is a generative AI-powered chatbot transforming agricultural support for India’s 150 million smallholder farmers. Delivering personalized, multilingual guidance via voice, text, image, and video, it provides actionable advice on pests, seeds, fertilizers, weather, and markets—especially empowering women and low-literacy farmers. In under a year, it grew from 15,000 to 250,000 users in India, with women making up 40% of the user base. Costing less than $1 per farmer annually, FarmerChat improves productivity, incomes, and climate resilience while scaling access to government schemes, marketplaces, and training—demonstrating how digital innovation can drive inclusive, sustainable impact.
