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Bihar signed ₹1.8 lakh crore in investment MoUs at one summit alone, and its economy is growing faster than India's. And yet the state still has the lowest per capita income in the country, and millions still leave every year to find work elsewhere. Here's my honest read on that contradiction, and what closes the gap.
Every few months, a young founder writes to me with an idea for "the Uber of veterinary services" or "ChatGPT for farmers." Most of these ideas are well-intentioned. Most of them also miss the same seven things I had to learn the hard way.
Capital, connectivity, and even AI models are solvable problems in rural technology today. The genuinely hard problem — the one no funding round fixes — is convincing a farmer who has been let down before to trust a new system with his livelihood.
Every major economy is racing to build sovereign AI for defense, finance, and healthcare. Agriculture — the sector employing the largest share of India's workforce — has been left out of that conversation. That's a strategic mistake.
Global food security strategy is written in Geneva and Washington, but it will be won or lost at the level of a single cattle shed in rural Bihar. Here's why the industry has the geography of the problem backwards.
Founder's Note — Er. Vishal Kumar Gupta There is a particular kind of silence that follows a decision nobody around you understands. In 2018, I left a stable engineering career to start something that had no name yet, no funding, no playbook — a company built around the health of animals that most people simply o