Centered on making a optimistic affect in India’s agriculture sector, Garuda Aerospace continues to broaden its market share via partnerships and collaboration. Supporting the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s visionary initiative to empower women-led Self Assist Teams (SHGs), Garuda Aerospace in the present day publicizes that it has secured an order of a complete of 500 Garuda Kisan Drones from 10 main fertiliser corporations underneath the NaMo Drone Didi scheme. Nationwide Fertilizers Restricted (NFL), Rashtriya Chemical compounds and Fertilizers (RCF), The Fertilisers and Chemical compounds Travancore (FACT), Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Restricted (HURL), KRIBHCO Fertilizers, Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemical compounds (GSFC), Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Company (BVFCL), Matix Fertilizers & Chemical compounds, Paradeep Phosphates (PPL), and Mangalore Chemical compounds and Fertilizers (MCF) are the ten corporations which have positioned an order for Garuda Aerospace’s Kisan drones underneath the scheme.
Garuda Aerospace’s Kisan drones can assist with spraying of fertilisers and pesticides. Given its precision capabilities, Kisan drones can scale back the amount of pesticides used along with eliminating lengthy exposures to dangerous chemical substances. Kisan drones are geared up with AI, ML and GPS sensors to assist farmers with correct and real-time details about their crops and farms. The drones additionally scale back the usage of water and are geared up to cowl giant farming areas in a comparatively shorter time. Garuda Kisan Drones might help enhance crop yield by 60% and scale back lack of crop by 20%.
Talking on including one other 500 Kisan Drones to the corporate’s order guide, Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Founder and CEO of Garuda Aerospace mentioned, “Drones have the ability to rework farming and agriculture in India. At Garuda Aerospace, we now have been entrance runners advocating the usage of agriculture drones for a number of proposes. The order of 500 Kisan drones is a win for us as an organization in addition to the agriculture financial system. It’ll enhance effectivity and allow farmers to harness the quite a few advantages of this revolutionary know-how. We’re assured that this partnership with the ten fertiliser corporations underneath the NaMo Drone Didi scheme will go a good distance.”
Introduced in December 2023, the NAMO Drone Didi scheme helps ladies develop into integral stakeholders of their native farming provide chains and rural prosperity. Garuda Aerospace has efficiently skilled over 185 rural ladies underneath this scheme since its launch.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had flagged off Garuda Aerospace’s Kisan Drone Yathra by concurrently launching 100 drones throughout 100 Indian villages. The Yathra aimed to create consciousness and democratise the usage of drones and drone know-how inside the agriculture sector. Backed by MS Dhoni who’s an investor and model ambassador within the start-up, Garuda Aerospace raised INR 25 crore in a bridge spherical in October 2023 and is at the moment making ready for its IPO in 2024.
