Shot in the arm, for the farm, as Cropin, Google Cloud launch OrbitAI to power agriculture decision-making

Bengaluru: Bengaluru-based agri-tech company Cropin, in collaboration with Google Cloud, recently launched OrbitAI, claiming it to be the world’s first agentic AI platform designed exclusively for food and agriculture.

Built on Google Cloud’s advanced AI infrastructure, the platform aims to transform agricultural decision-making through autonomous, data-driven intelligence.

Unlike conventional AI systems trained on internet data, OrbitAI has been developed using Cropin’s 15 years of proprietary agricultural intelligence spanning 103 countries, over 400 crops, 10,000 crop varieties and more than one billion acres of farmland.

The platform combines crop, climate, weather, soil, geography and supply chain data to provide real-time, region-specific recommendations across the global food value chain.

The AI platform is designed to assist a wide range of stakeholders — from farmers and agribusinesses to banks, food companies and policymakers — by delivering actionable insights in natural language within seconds.

For instance, it can assess crop disease risks for farmers or forecast supply chain disruptions for procurement managers, enabling faster and more informed decisions.

Speaking at the launch, Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO of Cropin, said OrbitAI marks the next phase of artificial intelligence by moving beyond information retrieval to intelligent decision-making.

“AI has transformed how the world accesses information. The next transformation is how the world makes decisions about food. OrbitAI combines Google’s AI infrastructure with Cropin’s predictive models trained on 15 years of real-world agricultural data to predict outcomes before they happen,” he said.

Sashikumar Sreedharan, Managing Director, Google Cloud India, said the collaboration demonstrates how agentic AI can solve real-world challenges by improving efficiency and scalability.

“Built on Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, OrbitAI enables organisations to deploy autonomous AI workflows that significantly expand their capacity to address complex agricultural challenges,” he said.

OrbitAI is powered by Google’s AI ecosystem, including Gemini models, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit, BigQuery, Google Cloud and WeatherNext, allowing it to process vast agricultural, climatic and geospatial datasets in real time.

A key feature of the platform is its open architecture. Available as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, OrbitAI can integrate with leading AI models such as GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral and enterprise AI systems, allowing organisations to embed Cropin’s agricultural intelligence into existing AI workflows.

Cropin said OrbitAI has been developed to democratise access to expert agricultural intelligence, enabling everyone — from smallholder farmers in rural India to sourcing managers in London, traders in Singapore and financial institutions in New York — to make faster, data-backed decisions.

Founded in 2010, Cropin is among the world’s largest AI platforms dedicated to agriculture. The company operates in 103 countries, has digitised 30 million acres, and says its technology has positively impacted more than seven million farmers worldwide.