Pushpendra Singh, Project Director of ANNAM.AI | Photo Credit: Subramani M R _300226

At the Bharat Innovates platform in France, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, IIT Ropar’s ANNAM.AI and Syngenta announced a strategic collaboration to advance AI-powered climate-smart agriculture in India by developing accurate crop health, pest forecasting and heat-stress models, alongside AI-driven decision-support solutions that will enable farmers to make more informed, resilient and data-driven agricultural decisions.

According to a company statement by ANNAM.AI, a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence in agriculture hosted at IIT Ropar, the collaboration will combine Syngenta’s agronomic expertise with ANNAM.AI’s AI innovation to enhance crop health, pest prediction and heat-stress intelligence, and develop next-generation decision-support solutions aimed at improving productivity, strengthening resilience and advancing climate-smart agriculture for the Indian farmers.

Speaking on the collaboration, IIT Ropar’s Director Rajeev Ahuja said: “The collaboration between ANNAM.AI and Syngenta further demonstrates the importance of industry-academia partnerships promoting the adoption of next-generation agricultural technologies.”

Pushpendra Singh, Project Director of ANNAM.AI, said: “This partnership combines science and technology with deep agronomic expertise to enable more data-driven and climate-smart farming across India. Our aim to advance accurate crop health, pest forecasting and heat-stress intelligence models that can empower farmers with timely and actionable insights.”

The collaboration between ANNAM.AI and Syngenta further demonstrates the importance of industry-academia partnerships promoting the adoption of next-generation agricultural technologies, the statement said. It seeks to contribute to a more resilient, sustainable, and technologically enabled farming future by leveraging research excellence, technical innovation, and practical agricultural knowledge.

Jeff Rowe, Syngenta Group’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are creating breakthroughs for farmers in every field, to deliver higher yields with lower impact. ANNAM.AI presents a unique opportunity to contribute to a transformative, digital foundation for Indian agriculture that will benefit more than 600 million people in this country.”

ANNAM.AI is showcasing hyperlocal weather systems serving as a next-generation smart weather station which continuously monitors key environmental parameters with high precision; agri-advisory farmer chatbot that delivers timely, hyperlocal agricultural advice, weather updates, and market insights to farmers and a digital decision-support system that employs an intelligence layer to understand and offer advice for crops, including crop identification, crop damage assessment, and pest management at Bharat Innovates 2026.

Published on June 15, 2026