00:04In the orchards of rural Maharashtra, where coconut, jamun and guava trees grow in neat rows,
00:10an unlikely tech revolution is quietly taking root.
00:13Not in offices or campuses, but right in the farmshed.
00:21Meet Sanjay Babale, a class 10 dropout farmer from Bede,
00:25who has turned an artificial intelligence chatbot into his 24-7 Krishi advisor.
00:32Babale isn't waiting for someone to bring smart farming to him.
00:35He has brought it himself.
00:38Using ChatGPT in Marathi, he asks questions about soil nutrition,
00:42how to protect flowers from insects, when to schedule pesticide sprays,
00:46and even how to manage irrigation more efficiently.
00:50We are running on the harvesting stage.
00:54We are running on the red diamond peru,
00:56but we are running on the trees rather than hardly burns.
01:01We ran all of our trees.
01:01You know, that's more of a great harvest harvest.
01:04I'm enjoying.
01:06You can see that in the forest,
01:08and the trees were all spread through it,
01:09even more of a sharpness and firmness.
01:12You can feel that it is all spread through it,
01:14and I believe that it is a perfect fire purway or a adult.
01:18But you can see that on theijo,
01:18but you can see the if you want,
01:19where the trees,
01:34Chad GPT, he says with a smile, even greets him as Vabaliji now, becoming a kind of digital
01:40extension of his own experience.
01:43For many, AI still feels like a boardroom buzzword, but on this farm, it means fewer
01:49guesswork-driven mistakes, smarter product choices, and timely decisions that can make
01:54or break a crop.
02:04Vabaliji coexists old-school farming wisdom with app screen advice.
02:09He consults the AI before he visits the local agro-dealer, cross-checking what mixture to
02:15apply and at what stage of flowering, that allows him to optimize inputs, cut unnecessary
02:21costs, and reduce chemical overuse.
02:25Vabaliji's use of Chad GPT goes beyond science and sprays.
02:28He even turns to the AI for packaging ideas, logo drafts, and simple branding strategies
02:35for his produce.
02:38So, next time you bite into a juicy guava from Maharashtra, remember, some of that sweetness
02:44might have been shaped not just by the soil and the rain, but by an AI assistant meeting
02:49the farmer halfway, teaching and learning one question at a time.
03:06inaudible
03:08inaudible
03:09Mary
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