Agrileaf develops AI driven technology to grade, sort out arecanut

Agrileaf Exports Private Limited astatine Nidle successful Dakshina Kannada has developed a wholly functional prototype of AI-based arecanut grading and sorting machine, according to its laminitis and Chief Executive Officer Avinash Rao.

The AI-driven, computer-based arecanut grading exertion which is the inaugural of the company’s co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Athishay Jain tin beryllium utilized to benignant retired 4 grades of arecanut, Mr. Rao told The Hindu. The grades are chali, ulli, fator and karigot.

80% accuracy

“The AI based exertion developed is 80% close successful detecting and sorting retired the grades of arecanut,” Mr. Rao said adding that it would necessitate different six months to make it arsenic a deployable product. The exertion tin beryllium further developed to place and benignant retired different grades of arecanut, helium said.

Mr. Rao said that the company, which makes bio-degradable dinnerware and packaging materials from arecanut leaf, utilized AI based exertion 2 years agone to make an algorithm to quality-wise segregate the dinnerware. Now, the AI-driven exertion has been utilized to people and benignant retired arecanut. “We did it arsenic a goodwill. Now cooperative bodies dealing with arecanut volition person to travel guardant to make the deployable instrumentality which tin beryllium utilized by farmers and the bodies. The institution volition transportation the exertion arsenic per procedures,” helium said.

The CEO said that the institution volition not spell for commercialized accumulation of the machines arsenic it is not its country of operation.

Delegation from co-op bodies

Meanwhile, a delegation of leaders of cooperative bodies dealing with arecanut visited the institution connected January 5, 2026, and witnessed the functioning of the machine.

It comprised S.R. Satishchandra, president, Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (CAMPCO) Ltd.; Kishore Kumar Kodgi, erstwhile president of CAMPCO; Gopalakrishna Vaidya, president, The Totgar’s Co-operative Sale Society (TSS), Sirsi; Shivakumar, president, Tota Utpannagala Marata Sahakara Sangha Niyamith (TUMCOS); V.P. Mahesh, Vice President, Malnad Areca Marketing Cooperative Society (MAMCOS), Mahesh Puchhappady, president, All India Arecanut Growers’ Association and Araga Jnanendra, erstwhile Home Minister and MLA.

The delegation was briefed astir Agrileaf’s afloat integrated mill operations, accumulation processes, and technological implementations.

“At Agrileaf, we precocious developed areca grading exertion arsenic a solution to the challenges faced by areca growers. The appreciation from stalwarts of the areca assemblage for our AI exertion and different innovations — created by utilising areca leaves and discarded materials — has fixed america adjacent greater information to determination forward,” Mr. Rao said.