Fasal – Setting Indian Farms on Auto-pilot Mode
Fasal – Setting Indian Farms on Auto-pilot Mode
Authors : Soumya Kushwaha
It was the calm evening of August 20, 2019 when Ananda Verma, the CEO of Fasal sat in
his office with Shailendra Tiwari, the co-founder. It was one of the frequent sessions they
held to discuss the future course of action amidst changing business dynamics. They were
reflecting on the purpose of setting up Fasal, the successes and challenges before Fasal in
the previous one-and-a-half years and the milestones it achieved so far, after being founded
in January 2018. Having successfully created positive impacts in the lives of tens of Indian
farmers, they felt it was now time to gear up for future challenges and ride over the tide to
reach out to millions more.
28 year old Ananda Verma hails from a farming family in Azamgarh near Varanasi.
Growing up, he has seen his father suffer because of crop loss due to weather related
uncertainties and lack of information. “And this problem is not only with my father, but
every farmer faces the same issue because of lack of data points to make a decision,”
Verma shares.
After graduating from IIIT Bangalore, and working in the IT software industry for over
five years, Ananda realised that he had a solution to this problem of guesswork through
the use of tech advancement in Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning (ML).
This fusion of agriculture and technology and a belief that precision farming and Artificial
Intelligence (AI) can bring second Green Revolution in India led him to start Fasal with
his co-founder Shailendra Tiwari. The official name of the company is Wolkus Technology
Solutions Pvt Ltd. based out of Bangalore, Karnataka. The company has a motto to ‘Give
Back To The Society’.
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