With a mature technology
system operating at scale, the agri-tech firm’s new offerings have already
found interest from several state government departments and other large
institutions, besides thousands of farmers across India & Southeast Asia
Bengaluru, January 29,
2026: After exiting its fresh produce business in
March’25, leading agri-tech company Fasal today announced bolstering the next
phase of its growth through its new products developed to address the
increasing farmer demand for technology-enabled farming solutions. The company
announced the launch of ‘FasalJet’ and ‘FasalJet Pro’ - irrigation and
fertigation automation products - which automate precision-sensitive operations
for farmers. Fasal’s research depicts that these offerings, along with its
robust ‘FasalOne’ family of farm IoT devices, can make the Indian horticulture
sector significantly more competent globally.
As
Fasal’s crop intelligence systems scaled, the company noticed a consistent
pattern emerging from the fields - tight labour availability and rising wage
costs, and operational complexity - made farming more demanding. FasalJet and
FasalJet Pro were designed to address this need for irrigation and fertigation
automation, extending the platform from sensing and recommendations into
on-farm execution. These systems automate precision-sensitive operations where
manual execution often breaks down, while remaining simple enough to operate in
real farming conditions. The automation products have been fully developed,
commercially validated, and are now being scaled across multiple Indian states,
including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,
besides others. The focus remains clear: build systems farmers can depend on,
every day, without adding operational burden.
Fasal’s
technology offerings include FasalOne, launched in April 2025, a
next-generation farm Internet of Things (IoT) platform, designed to work across
crops, geographies, and farm sizes. Built and proven in India’s most demanding
farm conditions, Fasal’s platform reflects a simple belief: if technology can
work reliably here, it can work anywhere. The company is taking this made-in-India,
for-the-world approach into its next phase of growth.
Built
around a modular architecture of central and satellite units, the FasalOne
platform allows farms to start small and expand over time, increasing both
coverage and capability without replacing existing systems. This platform
design lowers entry barriers for very small landholdings while continuing to
support larger and more complex operations. Since launch, the platform has been
steadily scaled across farms in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh,
Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, etc.,
with reliability, usability, and real-world performance guiding every
deployment. The company aims to support up to 100,000 farmers across India and
Southeast Asia in the next 5 years.
Technology
validated for regional and national institutional programmes
Over the past year, Fasal has deepened its product and technology
foundation and launched these new products in response to growing on-ground
needs through technology validated for regional & national sensitive
institutional programmes. This phase has also been shaped by a deliberate
strategic choice: Fasal sharpened its focus on farm
technology as its primary operating business. That decision allowed the
company to concentrate on what it had been building steadily over the years,
technology designed to help farmers make the right decisions and execute them
reliably on the ground, especially as labour availability becomes an increasing
constraint.
Alongside
farmer adoption, Fasal’s technology has increasingly been deployed through
institution-led programmes focused on productivity, resource efficiency, and
traceability at regional and state levels. One such initiative is the Sugarcane
Productivity Improvement Programme, led by ADT Baramati. As part of this
programme, Fasal implemented its IoT & crop intelligence systems across 5,000
farms in phase I, with the programme expected to expand to tens of thousands
more farmers in the coming years. Fasal was also a part of Atal Bhujal Yojana,
a national programme aimed at improving groundwater sustainability through
community-led behaviour change. In this context, Fasal’s technology has
supported data-driven irrigation decisions and more responsible groundwater use
at the farm level. More recently, Fasal has been entrusted with a Grape &
Pomegranate Productivity Improvement Programme in Karnataka, supported by the
Karnataka Department of Horticulture. This initiative focuses on improving
productivity, quality, and traceability across Grape & Pomegranate-growing
regions by deploying farm-level intelligence consistently across individual farms,
rather than relying on fragmented interventions. Fasal also has several other
large projects in the pipeline across government institutions to expand the
success to other states.
Shailendra Tiwari, Founder & CEO, Fasal, said, “Fasal now works with 12,000+ farmers and 100+
enterprises across India and South East Asia. The benefits have been robust,
with over 83 billion litres of water (enough drinking and domestic water for
the entire population of Goa for about one year), 210,000 Kgs of pesticides
saved and more than 56,000 MT of GHC emissions saved along with significant
enhancement in farmer prosperity. Taken together, these
programmes reflect a growing pattern: institutions are turning to Fasal to
translate policy and research intent into execution on the ground, at scale.”
Taking
an India-built platform to global markets
This year also marks Bengaluru-headquartered Fasal’s expansion beyond
India. From the beginning, the company set out to build technology with global
relevance, but chose to first prove it in one of the world’s most complex
agricultural environments. With a mature hardware platform, live automation
systems, and experience operating at scale, Fasal has begun establishing its
footprint in Southeast Asia since FY25-26. The company’s distribution networks
are now active in markets such as Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and
Thailand with deployments already underway as the markets scale across crops
such as Sugarcane, Durian, Banana, and vegetables. Early response from these
markets has reinforced a simple insight: the challenges Fasal is addressing -
labour stress, execution reliability, and resource efficiency are structural
issues across countries and specially relevant in Asia, Africa & Middle
East.
Building for the future
of farming
Across these developments, Fasal is building a closed-loop farm
technology stack that connects sensing, decision-making, and execution into a
single system. As labour stress continues to intensify across agriculture, this
approach is becoming essential to sustaining productivity, quality, and
consistency on farms.
Fasal will continue to expand this platform
directionally, adding new capabilities where emerging on-ground challenges
demand them, while staying focused on robustness, reliability, and usability.
About Fasal: Fasal
is a pioneering agricultural technology company enabling precision horticulture
from decision-making through on-farm automation. Founded in 2018, Fasal builds
full-stack farm intelligence and execution systems that integrate patented IoT
hardware, agronomic science, AI-driven models, and automation to help farmers
and agri-enterprises run predictable, efficient, and resilient operations.
Fasal’s platform delivers farm-level, crop-specific, and crop-stage-specific intelligence
across irrigation, fertigation, and pest and disease management, translating
insights directly into field actions. By closing the loop between sensing,
decision-making, and execution through automation, Fasal helps horticulturists
improve yield quality, reduce the cost of cultivation, and manage risk
proactively. The company propagates sustainable horticulture practices that
create measurable social, economic, and environmental impact, contributing
directly to multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals including water
efficiency, climate action, and farmer livelihoods. Co-founded by Ananda Verma
and Shailendra Tiwari, Fasal is on a mission to drive a horticulture-led
farming transformation globally.