Samhitha

What Samhitha does

Samhitha Crop Care Clinics India Pvt Ltd is a Hyderabad-based precision farming advisory company that builds and operates the 'Citron – Precision Farming' platform for commercial horticulture growers, with an initial focus on citrus in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The platform integrates solar-powered cellular IoT telemetry devices that capture soil (moisture at two depths, temperature, pH, EC) and weather (rainfall, humidity, temperature, wind, leaf wetness, NDVI, irrigation water quality) data every 15 minutes, with mobile applications (the farmer-facing Sasya Setu / Citron Farmer app and the internal Citron App for field assistants) and a proprietary Digital Tree Health Audit System (DTHAS) that tags and audits individual trees across text, image, audio and video formats. AI/ML capabilities, including computer vision models trained on 500,000+ trees across 52 pest and disease problems, generate customized irrigation schedules, disease outbreak alerts and per-tree recommendations that human expert advisors translate into text-message advisories and on-field follow-ups.

The company delivers these capabilities through a hybrid digital-plus-field go-to-market model with cluster offices in Hyderabad, Haliya (Nalgonda) and Anantapur and embedded on-field assistants. Beyond core advisory, Samhitha extends the platform into adjacent farmer services — Produce Marketing, Input Finance, Crop Insurance and an upcoming Farm Input offering — and operates under Naviz Analytics as its stated parent company. Co-founders are CEO Dr. G. Syamasundar Reddy (Ph.D. in Plant Pathology, ex-IIIT-Hyderabad agricultural scientist behind the eSagu digital agriculture platform) and CTO Kalyan Enjamoori (AI/IoT/data analytics veteran). The company has disclosed $1.5M of seed/early-stage funding (December 2021, led by TechStar Group with Quadrant Resource) and reports a headcount of 101–250 employees; no revenue, pricing or paying-customer figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

Samhitha

Legal name

Samhitha Crop Care Clinics India Pvt Ltd

Website

https://samhitha.ag

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Samhitha Crop Care Clinics is a Hyderabad-based precision farming advisory company that combines IoT telemetry, AI-powered computer vision and human expert advisors to deliver per-tree crop advisory, primarily to citrus growers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, via its Citron platform and Sasya Setu mobile app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Agriculture / Farming Advisory

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (1151)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Decision Support & Agronomic Modeling (Yield, Irrigation, Pest/Disease Forecasting) (AFAAAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote Sensing & Imagery Analytics (Satellite, Drone, Aerial) (AFABAMAB), Plant Tissue, Soil & Water Sampling Coordination (Agronomy-Focused) (AFACABAH)

Keywords

• Precision farming advisory
• Agritech platform
• Citrus crop monitoring
• Agricultural IoT sensors
• Farm advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Hyderabad

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Samhitha sells customized precision farming advisory to citrus growers, delivered through its 'Citron – Precision Farming' platform that integrates solar-powered cellular telemetry devices capturing soil and weather data every 15 minutes, farmer and advisor mobile apps, a proprietary Digital Tree Health Audit System using computer vision, and human expert agronomists who push text-message recommendations to farmers. Beyond the core advisory, Samhitha offers related services including Produce Marketing, Input Finance, Crop Insurance, and an upcoming Farm Input offering.

Product overview

Samhitha Crop Care Clinics delivers a single unified precision farming platform, branded as the 'Citron – Precision Farming' system, organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core Precision Advisory Platform integrates three technology modules — the Telemetry Device (solar-powered cellular IoT hardware capturing soil and weather data every 15 minutes), the Sasya Setu App (Citron Farmer App for farmer-facing advice) and the Citron App (for field assistants and advisors) — together with the proprietary Digital Tree Health Audit System (DTHAS), which uses computer vision to audit individual trees in text, image, audio, and video formats. AI/ML models power image-based disease detection, customized irrigation schedules, and disease outbreak alerts, and the platform powers a suite of service modules delivered to farmers: Integrated Crop Advisory (soil profile/soil & water analysis, irrigation scheduling, pest monitoring, orchard health card, permanent record keeping), Produce Marketing, Farm Input (upcoming), Input Finance, and Crop Insurance. The Telemetry Device, Sasya Setu App, Citron App, and DTHAS form the core technology stack, while the advisory, marketing, input, finance, and insurance services extend the platform into a full-stack offering that Samhitha positions as India's first precision farming advisory for citrus growers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Citron: Proprietary 'Citron – Precision Farming' system comprising web apps, mobile apps, field devices, on-field assistants and on-field/remote expert advisory for soil, weather and plant data monitoring.
• Sasya Setu

Products and services

• Citron Precision Farming Platform (Precision Advisory Platform) End-to-end digital farming platform integrating wireless telemetry devices, mobile apps, AI/ML-based advisory, and on-field human expertise to deliver customized precision farming advisory for farmers. Monitors soil, weather, and plant data in real time across citrus orchards.
• Telemetry Device Solar-powered cellular field device that measures soil moisture at two depths (root zone and below root zone) along with soil temperature, soil pH, soil EC, and weather parameters every 15 minutes, transmitting data wirelessly for precision advisory.
• Sasya Setu App (Citron Farmer App) Farmer-facing Android mobile application (io.samhitha.citron) that delivers tree-level disease information, expert advisor recommendations, live field advice, soil reports, weather data, tree audit reports, and drone reports to citrus growers.
• Citron App (Field Assistant / Advisor App) Internal mobile application for field assistants, advisors, and experts that creates a digital blueprint of the field and uses Samhitha's proprietary computer vision algorithms to detect and classify pests and diseases in real time during data collection.
• Digital Tree Health Audit System (DTHAS) Proprietary methodology on the Samhitha Citron App that tags and audits individual citrus trees in text, image, audio, and video formats; results are categorized (No trees/Dead/Removed, Slightly Sick, Moderately Sick, Severely Sick) and used to generate virtual maps of problems and their spatial distribution.
• Integrated Crop Advisory Comprehensive advisory service for farmers covering soil profile analysis, soil and water analysis, soil and water conservation, rainwater harvesting and groundwater recharging, soil fertility and plant nutrition, irrigation scheduling, pest monitoring, regular field checks, orchard health card, and permanent record keeping.
• Produce Marketing Market assistance service that helps citrus growers reduce dependency on middlemen by connecting them to distant markets, processing units, wholesalers, and exporters.
• Input Finance Financial access service that supports citrus growers with funding for agricultural inputs as part of Samhitha's integrated service portfolio.
• Crop Insurance Crop insurance service offered to citrus growers as part of Samhitha's integrated services portfolio.
• Precision Farming Advisory (Citrus, Telangana & AP) India's first precision farming advisory service for citrus growers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, delivering customized per-farm recommendations to improve yields and reduce crop losses.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Aibono: AI-driven precision farming platform for horticulture that provides real-time agronomy advice to growers. Comparable to Samhitha in AI-based horticulture advisory and data-driven farming decisions in India.
• Plantix: AI-powered crop disease diagnosis app using image recognition for farmers. Comparable to Samhitha's computer-vision-based pest and disease detection capability, though Plantix is mobile-first rather than IoT-hardware-led.
• SatSure: Satellite imagery + AI analytics platform for agriculture, providing crop monitoring, yield prediction, and risk analytics to agribusinesses and insurers. Comparable to Samhitha in remote sensing and AI-driven farm intelligence.
• CropIn Technology Solutions: India-based agritech SaaS platform providing farm management, predictive analytics, and traceability for agribusinesses. Directly comparable to Samhitha as both sell AI/ML-driven advisory and monitoring tools to growers, with CropIn operating at greater scale and across more geographies.
• BharatAgri: Digital agriculture advisory platform providing personalized crop, pest, and irrigation recommendations to Indian farmers via mobile app. Comparable to Samhitha in farmer-facing digital advisory with AI/ML agronomy.
• Fasal: Precision horticulture advisory platform using IoT sensors and AI to advise farmers on irrigation, pests, and disease. Closely comparable to Samhitha in crop focus (horticulture), IoT-hardware-plus-advisory model, and target farmer segment in India.

Emerging players

• TraceX Technologies: Blockchain and AI-based agriculture supply-chain traceability and advisory platform. Comparable to Samhitha in agri-AI and digital advisory offerings for Indian farmers, though focused more on traceability than on-farm precision.
• Intello Labs (now Intello Labs / Agrostar acquisition history): AI-based quality assessment and disease detection for agriculture using computer vision. Comparable to Samhitha's CV-based disease detection capability, though Intello focused more on post-harvest quality grading.

Broad incumbents

• AgroStar: India's largest omni-channel agritech platform providing agronomy advisory, agri-inputs, and financing. Comparable as a farmer-advisory-plus-inputs competitor in India, with broader crop and geographic coverage than Samhitha.
• DeHaat: Full-stack agritech platform offering advisory, input commerce, and market linkages to Indian farmers at massive scale. Comparable to Samhitha's integrated-service ambition (advisory + inputs + marketing + finance), though DeHaat operates far more broadly across crops and states.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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