The problem MATNURE solves

On a broad spectrum it solves the problem of Soil Degradation and problems faced by farmers in Organic farming.

One of the biggest threats to our future food security is land degradation and it associated loss in soil productivity. Life beneath the soil is the basis of life above the soil. But around the world, life in soil is dying. Nearly 27,000 species go extinct every year due to soil degradation.
3,00,000 farmers commit suicide every year due to crop failure. We loss 12 million hectares of top soil across the world owing to sustainable agriculture practices. A full 90 per cent of the Earth's precious topsoil is likely to be at risk by 2050, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO. In a bid to protect soil globally and help farmers, the FAO warned that the equivalent of one soccer pitch of earth erodes, every five seconds.

Matnure is commmitted to sustainable production and while optimising yield and preventing the risk of crop loss. The main problem faced by farmers in doing organic farming is the shortage of nutrient content of the soil, which results in lesser yield or crop failure. Changing from chemical to organic farming requires 2-3 years of time for soil to adapt and the problem is the farmers in India are majorly small scale farmers which do not have that money to bear 2 to 3 years to crop loss.
Our solution includes 2 parts service and product part.

The first part of the service will be an IoT based device which will be equipped with various optical and electrochemical sensors to detect the fertility of the soil.
The second part will be AI/ML based application which will use various data sets to predict the deficiency of particular nutrients in the soil and then it will suggest the suitable nutrients and fertilisers as per the soil and the crop.
For the product part we have customizable mats called Matnure, which will be totally organic and degradable which will replace chemical fertilizers and produce same yield as them.

Challenges we ran into

1. Availability of sensors
2. Availability of Raw Material for mat preparation