NEW DELHI: Indian farmers have been turning to tech-enabled platforms to sell produce like never before as the covid-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown has traditional agriculture physical markets. “We have seen farmers coming to our platform in bulk as an alternative supply chain is not available for product pickup," said Atul Kumar, co-founder and chief executive of FreshVnF, the company that runs Fraazo.
The platform has seen a three times surge in customers and has hence had to reach out to more farmers. Two other startups, AgriBazaar and Agri10x, said they’ve seen similar trends.
While AgriBazaar saw 400% increase in registrations on its app in April, Pankajj Ghode, chief executive of Agri10x, said the the platform has acquired