ESDS’ innovative digital agro platform ‘Famrut’ assists the farmers to extract high yield & thereby income from their land by linking them with appropriate stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem. Through Famrut, ESDS aims to provide farming solutions to farmers across the nation.

9thAugust 2022- ESDS Software Solution Limited has associated with ICAR - Directorate of Onion & Garlic Research (DOGR), Pune (ICAR- DOGR), an institute of repute that focuses on merging innovation with entrepreneurship in Agriculture. The association has been formed to aid farmers with a Decision Support System for guidance and management of onions and garlic.

ESDS' innovative digital agro platform ‘Famrut' assists the farmers to extract high yield & thereby income from their land by linking them with appropriate stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem. Through Famrut, ESDS aims to provide farming solutions to farmers across the nation.

ESDS' association with ICAR enables a strong Decision Supports System for farmers that will help them in varietal selection, pest and disease management, and nutrition management for onion and garlic. It will also provide advisory support system, and market support system. Additionally, it will have an onion and garlic knowledge portal with technology repository and a registration platform for the onion and garlic stakeholders like farmers, farmer producer organizations, exporters and private organizations.

Sharing his views on the association, Mr. Kishore Shah, Head - SPOCHUB (an initiative by ESDS), said, "This association will be the best suit for every onion and garlic producer as it will connect the farmers with a government organization that is dedicated to their wellbeing through an easy-to-use medium. ICAR- DOGR services offered through Famrut will help simplify the farmers' jobs in their field with a solid research-based, and data-driven Decision Support System.

R. B. Kale, Officer-In-Charge at ICAR - Directorate of Onion & Garlic Research (DOGR), expressed his thoughts that development of online platforms in collaboration of ICAR-DOGR & ESDS will help to connect the organization with millions of farmers. It will additionally prosper our vision to promote the overall growth of onion and garlic in terms of enhancement of quality production, export, and processing".

To know more about ESDS' Digital Agro Platform, visit www.famrut.com

About ESDS: ESDS Software is amongst India's leading cloud service and end-to-end multi-cloud requirements provider and has its presence across APAC region, Europe, Middle East The Americas, and Africa. It offers cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and managed services. The company operates the business on an asset-light model and offers products across diversified industries that include government ministries & companies and corporate entities across sectors such as BFSI, manufacturing, IT and ITES, telecom, real estate, pharmaceuticals, retail, and education and in several countries across the APAC region, Europe, Middle East, the Americas, and Africa. The company operates its business through three data centers in India, one each in Navi Mumbai, Nashik, and Bengaluru covering over 50,000 sq ft. ESDS is an innovation driven company and is one of the few data center and cloud services providers that has its own R&D team comprises 177 team members. The team has indigenously developed several products that complement the data center and cloud business such as eNlight Cloud, eMagic, eCos, eNlightWAF, eNlight IoT, eNlightDRM, eNlight Meet, eNlight SIEM. The company is committed to innovation and focuses on creating more niche and cost-effective technology products and solutions. ESDS Software is the market leader in hosting government cloud applications and has the largest number of banking customers in India. For more details, please visit: www.esds.co.in

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