NEW DELHI: Arya.Ag, India’s largest and only profitable grain commerce platform, on Thursday announced the launch of 25 Smart Farm Centres across India, marking its foray into the pre-harvest phase of agriculture with an ambitious goal to deliver data intelligence and technology directly to the farm gate.
The announcement was made at a press conference in New Delhi, where company leaders stated that the initiative will enable smallholder farmers to make data-driven decisions through on-the-ground access to digital tools, soil diagnostics, and weather intelligence.
Each Smart Farm Centre will function as a local technology hub, offering IoT-based soil testing, hyper-local weather forecasts, drone-based crop imaging, and climate insurance—all free of cost to farmers. The centres are already operational in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Gujarat, and Bihar, located near Farmer-Producer Organisations (FPOs).
“Collaboration is the foundation of progress in agriculture,” said Prasanna Rao, Co-founder and CEO of Arya.ag. “The Smart Farm Centres show what happens when technology innovators, data scientists, and local communities work together. These centres prove that scalable, practical solutions can emerge from partnerships grounded in farmers’ realities.”
Each centre is managed by women leaders trained under Arya.ag’s community program and developed in partnership with agri-tech startups, including Neoperk, BharatRohan, Fyllo, Finhaat, and FarmBridge. The initiative integrates with Arya.ag’s post-harvest ecosystem of storage, finance, and markets, creating a connected intelligence network for farmers.
“Farmers have long faced uncertainty of soil, weather, and markets,” said Shenoy Mathew, Chief Sustainability Officer, Arya.ag. “These Smart Farm Centres bring information and access to the farmgate, empowering farmers to take control of their outcomes.”
The company said it plans to scale the program to 250 centres over the next 18 months, serving as part of Arya.ag’s broader push to strengthen climate resilience and income stability among smallholders.
Separately, Arya.ag’s NBFC arm, Aryadhan Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd., announced it aims to exceed $360 million (₹3,000 crore) in commodity financing during FY26, building on its post-harvest lending services.
Currently, Arya.ag works with more than 1,600 FPOs and 800,000 farmers, operating across 60% of India’s districts with 12,000 warehouses, facilitating $3 billion in annual grain aggregation and $1.5 billion in agri credit.
With the Smart Farm Centres, Arya.ag said it is building India’s most comprehensive agri ecosystem, combining technology, finance, and community partnerships to drive sustainable and profitable farming.
