Tag: Leslie Verteramo Chiu

TCI Scholar Wins ‘Most Market Ready’ at Digital Ag Hackathon
Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) Scholar Shree Saha and her team took home the award for market readiness at the 2023 Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture Hackathon on March 20.
Saha’s team developed a platform, called TransportX, that would help smallholder farmers…

FPOs or Bust: Farm Aggregation Review Finds Newer Models Are the Most Successful
As demand for high-value, diverse agricultural products rises throughout the developing world, smallholder farmers face pressure to either commercialize or exit the farm sector altogether. Farmers that can scale up their operations have a significant opportunity to improve their livelihoods.…