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Blog · CropNow in the news
Everything published about CropNow, gathered in one place. Each story links to the original; the summaries are ours.
Ministry of Digital Affairs, Taiwan
Opening the 2026 international track, Taiwan invited Teams of Excellence from earlier editions back to share how their solutions have been put into practice, CropNow among them.
REVA University
Kabeer's university celebrated its mechanical-engineering alumnus and REVA NEST incubatee, as an example of ideas nurtured on campus growing into answers to real-world problems.
“honoured by the President of Taiwan at the 2025 Presidential Hackathon”
Taipei Times · Esme Yeh
Reporting the eighth Presidential Hackathon, the paper named CropNow among the international winners for NEST, which lets farm workers monitor crops in real time. India's representative in Taipei called the recognition significant and a sign of growing technology ties between India and Taiwan.
ICRT
Taiwan's English-language radio station reported that CropNow and Beyond Hearing were chosen from nine international finalists, describing NEST as an AI-driven IoT system that reads soil, microclimate and crop health to give farmers data-based advice.
Overseas Community Affairs Council, Taiwan
Carrying the Central News Agency's report, the council described NEST's monitoring of soil, microclimate and crop health, and the India-Taipei Association's view that the award reflects shared values in digital governance.
Office of the President, Taiwan
The official record of the ceremony at the Presidential Office Building, where President Lai Ching-te congratulated the two international Teams of Excellence and presented their trophies.
“CropNow from India helps farmers increase yields by monitoring crop health in real time.”
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Ministry of Digital Affairs, Taiwan
The organising ministry described how CropNow brings IoT sensors and AI together so farmers can use resources more efficiently under climate change: NEST watches soil and crops in real time, and CropDesk gives irrigation and disease-prediction advice.
Focus Taiwan · Central News Agency
The national news agency's report from the awards ceremony on the day CropNow was named one of the international track's two winners.
Taiwan News · Sean Scanlan
Covering the ceremony, Taiwan News singled out the Indian team for a live tool that tracks plant health to help farms produce more.
Presidential Hackathon, Taiwan
The hackathon announced its 2025 Teams of Excellence and introduced CropNow as a smart-agriculture team from India. Its write-up cites field tests in which NEST and CropDesk cut water use by about 40% and pesticide use by 70%, while raising yields by 20 to 30%.
“a device developed by CropNow that combines IoT monitoring with intelligent analytics”
Inc91
The longest profile of CropNow so far: how the loss of his grandmother’s farm led Kabeer to start it, two years of fieldwork across South India, NEST, CropDesk and SEED, the team’s choice to stay bootstrapped and build for farmers, and its five-year goals.
“We’re not trying to disrupt agriculture. We’re trying to revive it.”
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