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Youth builds India’s first autonomous electric tractor

by Gyanvitaranam

Disruptive technology is the order of the day in the automotive industry. Not a day goes by when one doesn’t come across innovations designed to impact existing products and address future needs. The transition towards new-age mobility has also levelled the field between legacy automakers and startups, who are aggressively seeking to change the status-quo by offering new and unique value propositions.

In the startup world, where most companies are focussing on passenger vehicles and two-wheelers, Kaustubh’s startup ‘AutoNxt’ is targeting the farming community to solve their problems.

The growing problem of paucity of skilled labour

Farming constitutes a major chunk of India’s GDP with 58 per cent of its population involved in it. Agriculture, which accounts for 14 per cent of the country’s GDP and about 11 per cent of the country’s exports, has still not reaped the benefits of modernisation. It is to be noted....

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