BANGALORE -- Krishna Kumar knew he wanted to do something more meaningful with his career. So nine years ago the programmer quit his job at engineering giant GE intending to help improve the livelihoods of farmers in his native India. When he started looking at the agriculture sector, he found that despite its huge scale and economic significance, it was deeply fragmented and poorly documented.
"The whole ecosystem is far-flung. It is very difficult to get to the root of any problem and solve it," he said. "The biggest gap was the data."
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