VarshaKrishi watches your own field from space and sends one clear WhatsApp message a week, in Marathi, Hindi or English: what changed, what to check, and when to act.
VarshaKrishiExample of a weekly message for a Nagpur orange orchard.
Built on public satellite data and open science
A district forecast cannot tell you that the lower half of your orchard is drying out. A satellite passes over every field in India every few days. We turn that view into one short message you can act on.
We read the satellite pixels inside your own field boundary and compare them with your field's own history, week after week.
No app to install. One short message a week in Marathi, Hindi or English, with buttons to reply in one tap.
A cloudy week or a very small plot? The message says so and tells you what to check yourself, instead of guessing.
One short WhatsApp message a week in Marathi, Hindi or English, with a date and a source.
Farmers pay nothing. You get a live dashboard and a season report.
A real Sentinel-2 image around one 3.2-acre field near Katol, in the Nagpur orange belt. Switch to the greenness view to see what the satellite measures, field by field.
1.2 km × 0.9 km · each square 10 m
Scroll through a real field near Katol: how it is found, read from space, compared with its own past and turned into advice.
Send your location on WhatsApp or tell us on a call. We draw the boundary with you. This one is a 3.2-acre field near Katol.
The European Sentinel-2 satellites photograph every field in India every five days or sooner, including light the eye cannot see. Cloudy passes are set aside.
Each square is 10 m by 10 m. This field is 129 squares. Your advice comes from these, not from a district average.
Leaves reflect near-infrared light strongly. The ratio, called NDVI, shows how dense and active the canopy is. Darker green means denser leaves.
Every clear pass for a year, this field against the fields around it. On 20 May its greenness fell 38% in ten days, faster than its neighbours. That is what a message is for.
What changed and what to check this week, in Marathi, Hindi or English, on the phone you already have.
Every message is under 300 characters and carries its date and source. These are examples of the three kinds a farmer receives.
Download a year of real satellite readings for one Vidarbha field (open data)
Every Sentinel-2 pass over the field near Katol from 17 Aug to 12 Oct: 15 passes, 5 clear views. When clouds hide the field, the week's message says so instead of guessing.
Real images of the same 3.2-acre field near Katol, outlined. Its average greenness (NDVI): 0.53 on 26 Dec 2025, 0.55 on 19 Feb 2026, 0.61 on 10 May 2026 while unwatered land around it turns bare, and 0.74 after the monsoon.
NDVI 0.53
Winter. Many orchards are kept dry before the ambia bahar.
NDVI 0.55
Water restored, flowering. Rabi fields maturing.
NDVI 0.61
Peak summer. Only irrigated blocks stay green.
NDVI 0.74
After the monsoon. Kharif crops and orchards in full leaf.
Freefor any field in India
Crop stages for rice, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, maize, pulses and vegetables. Any other crop gets trend and weather.
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Decide opens crop by crop, only after an agronomist has reviewed the crop model.
Processors, drip and input companies, FPOs, CSR foundations and government programmes can put a whole group of farmers on Decide. Farmers pay nothing. You get a live dashboard and a season report.
Keep your supply base informed every week.
Learn moreBundle a season with what your dealers already sell.
Learn moreAll your members' fields in one dashboard.
Learn moreFund a district, with a report your board can read.
Learn moreWatch works for any field in the country. Decide, with irrigation timing, opens first for Nagpur orange growers in Vidarbha for the 2026-27 season, then crop by crop and region by region.
District boundaries: geoBoundaries (ODbL), from lgdirectory.gov.in.
Satellites already pass over every farm in India. VarshaKrishi exists so that view reaches the farmer who needs it most, in the words they use, on the phone they already have.
Tanmay SahareFounder, VarshaKrishi · Aerospace Engineering, IIT KanpurEiR Fellow, 5G/6G Centre of Excellence, FIRST, IIT Kanpur
Yes. Watch is free for any field in India. Decide, the crop-specific plan with irrigation timing, is a season pass that a partner such as an FPO, processor or programme can pay for on the farmer's behalf.
You need WhatsApp on any phone that runs it; a family member's phone works too. Until WhatsApp joining opens in your area, you can register by phone call.
Sentinel-2 passes over the same place about every 5 days, but cloud decides how often your field is actually visible. Over one field near Katol, 56 of 91 passes in a year gave a clear view; from 21 June to 2 September 2026, only 1 of 20 did. When the field cannot be seen, the message says so.
Watch works for any field in India, with crop stages for rice, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, maize, pulses and vegetables. Decide starts with Nagpur orange in Vidarbha for the 2026-27 season and opens to more crops and regions after each crop model is reviewed by an agronomist.
A weather app tells you about your district. VarshaKrishi looks at your own field: the satellite pixels inside your boundary, compared with your field's own history, together with the forecast for your village.
You give consent in your own language when you join. We never sell farmer data, partners see only group reports, and you can stop messages or ask us to delete your details at any time.