Crop protection companies making pesticides are increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the value chain in agriculture for shorter timelines of data churning and acceleration of the Research & Development (R&D) process. Chairman of Croplife India and CMD of Crystal Crop Protection, Ankur Aggarwal told CNBC-TV18 that all heavy-lifting on communication to farmers is already being conducted via AI, stating that he expects AI to solve problems in the agri-tech sector on diseases or pests not being managed. He said that shorter R&D…

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