Building Bangladesh’s First Integrated Agricultural Intelligence Ecosystem
For more than four decades, Shykh Seraj has carried knowledge from the laboratory to the field — through Mati O Manush, Hridoye Mati O Manush and the Krishi Budget dialogues that put the microphone in farmers’ hands. That trust is the ground on which the Shykh Seraj Initiative now builds.
Its next chapter is a unified, national Agricultural Data Platform: connecting the sky (satellite imagery and NDVI/EVI vegetation monitoring), the earth (digital soil mapping and field-level crop data) and the system (weather, market and agro-insurance data) — and turning all of it into decisions a farmer can act on.
Agricultural transformation cannot happen in silos, and we cannot build this alone. We invite government agencies, universities, satellite and weather providers, technology companies and development partners to become our Strategic Data & Innovation Partners — and to move Bangladeshi farming from guesswork to a data-driven science:
Data → Knowledge → Intelligence → Decision → Impact.
We are building a collaborative ecosystem. We invite partnerships from organizations across the following sectors:
Providers of geospatial imagery, NDVI/EVI mapping, meteorological data, climate-risk modelling and IoT sensing.
(Ground-truth your satellite and weather models against verified field data from farmer networks in all 64 districts.)
Departments of agriculture, soil science, climate change, economics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
(Access validated, field-level datasets for MPhil/PhD research and joint publications — building on the farm-journalism curriculum SSI’s founder helped bring to the University of Dhaka.)
Agricultural extension, food security, land administration and subsidy programmes.
(Integrate national administrative data with field intelligence — extending the evidence base the Krishi Budget dialogues have brought to policymaking on pricing, insurance and crop reform.)
Organizations working on climate resilience, rural livelihoods and sustainable farming.
(Co-design grant applications and implementation with the Grow Green women’s self-help groups and the Green Bridge farmers’ cooperative, with measurable impact tracking.)
Agri-businesses, market analysts, insurers and supply-chain innovators.
(Build decision-support systems, market intelligence and agro-insurance products on ground-truthed field data.)
Unmatched Field Access: Four decades of trust with farming communities — 300,000+ farmers heard in budget dialogues, 300,000+ women farmers organised through self-help groups, and a free health service that has reached 200,000+ farmers and their families.
Ground-Truthed Validation: Combine your top-down data — satellite imagery, climate models, market feeds — with bottom-up, verified field data gathered from the farmers themselves.
Joint Research & Grants: Apply together for international agricultural, climate and AI-for-good funds, alongside a partner whose work has been recognised by the FAO, UNESCO and the World Food Programme.
National Impact: Help shape a platform that serves food security for 170 million people, advances agro-insurance for climate and crop resilience, and empowers the marginalised farming communities the Initiative exists for.
Data Exchange & API Integration: Two-way sharing of non-sensitive, anonymised data — syncing your localised weather, satellite or market feeds with SSI’s crop-yield and soil data — to strengthen predictive models on both sides.
Joint Research & Innovation Labs: Co-developing AI for crop recommendation, disease detection, micro-climate forecasting and the climate-risk triggers that make agro-insurance workable for smallholders.
Strategic Capacity Building: Academic fellowships, joint publications and student research — including field placements alongside the Returning to Roots fellowship, where students live and work as farmers.
One Farmer. One Field. One Dataset. A Smarter Agricultural Future.
Join us in moving from one farmer’s field to a smarter agricultural future for Bangladesh. Tell us who you are and what you could bring — we will come back to you.