Noida-headquartered Leads Connect, India’s leading agritech firm that provides full stack solutions to farmers, today inaugurated its AI-Enabled Integrated Command Centre for Risk Intelligence (ICCRI) and AI-powered large-scale intelligence platform, KEDAR–PARVATI in the presence of a high-powered Brazilian delegation marking a significant milestone for agri-collaboration during Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva five-day state visit.
Leads Connect today hosted a high-level Brazilian delegation led by H.E. Mr. Paulo Teixeira, Hon’ble Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Government of Brazil, here at its Noida headquarters. Mr. Teixeira was accompanied with Mr. Arnaldo Manuel de Souza Machado Borges, President, ABCZ (Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Zebu); Mrs. Roberta Bertin Barros and Mr. Rogerio Barros of Fazenda Floresta; Diplomat Eduardo Braga; and Mr. Maurício Polidoro (International Advisory).
Mr. Teixeira inaugurated the AI-Enabled Integrated Command Centre for Risk Intelligence (ICCRI) and witnessed the global launch of KEDAR–PARVATI, a next-generation AI-powered large-scale intelligence platform for risk management. The launches are aligned with India’s expanding focus on Artificial Intelligence and digital public infrastructure for agriculture, coinciding with the ongoing India AI Impact Summit. LLMs & SLMs are part of Kedar-Parvati as modules for strengthening risk management solutions for Agriculture & Climate analytics at planet scale.
Commenting on the programme, Navneet Ravikar, Chairman & Managing Director, Leads Connect and CEO of BL Agro (parent company of Leads Connect) said, “It was an honour to showcase to H.E. Mr. Paulo Teixeira how we are leveraging AI in different aspects of agriculture. This comes at a time when India is celebrating the biggest festival of AI, India AI Impact Summit, that has put India on the global AI map. Our innovations with AI in agriculture and its effective implementation in the international market is a testament to India’s growing prowess in AI.”
Delighted at hosting the high-profile Brazilian delegation, Ashish Khandelwal, Managing Director, BL Agro, said, “This launch showcased our depth in AI proficiency and also highlights how we are effectively using it in agriculture. KEDAR–PARVATI represents applied AI at planet scale and brings together satellite intelligence, field analytics, financial risk modeling, and cross-domain learning into one coherent system that can support governments, financial institutions, and farmers alike.”
“As we celebrate the biggest festival of AI in the world, I am proud to see how Leads Connect have leveraged AI in one of the most important sectors, agriculture, that contributes the most to India’s GDP. Under the leadership of Hon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, we are actively transforming India’s agricultural sector by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost productivity, sustainability, and farmers’ income as part of the vision for a Viksit Bharat 2047. Today is a significant milestone towards our goal”, adds, Navneet.
In his special address, H.E. Mr. Paulo Teixeira reaffirmed the commitment to deepening bilateral collaboration in agricultural technology, digital transformation, and climate-resilient farming systems.
The AI-Enabled Integrated Command Centre for Risk Intelligence (ICCRI) is a live, in-house command centre delivering hyperlocal real-time analytics across the entire agriculture, climate risk, financial inclusion, and disaster management spectrum. At ICCRI, the delegation witnessed live demonstrations of proprietary intelligence frameworks, including: Operational geoportals including AGRANI, PixStack, DEVI–Saptashati, Maatri, and Kedar–Parvati was demonstrated in real time.
KEDAR–PARVATI is a next-generation large-scale intelligence platform for risk management. KEDAR stands for Knowledge Engineering & Deviation Analytics for Risk Intelligence and Parvati for Phenomics Analytics & Risk Value Assessment for Transferring Intelligence. It was developed by Varahi-NexTech, Leads NexTech India Pvt. Ltd. and operationalised on-ground by Leads Connect.
A special interaction session during the visit brought together smallholder farmers and representatives of cooperatives and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), who shared real-world use cases demonstrating how AI-driven advisory and risk intelligence tools have enhanced productivity, improved access to finance, and strengthened climate resilience at the grassroots level.
The visit also highlighted an upcoming 360° India–Brazil Agri-Tech and Agri Value Chain Corridor initiative, beginning with the cashew value chain in collaboration with EMBRAPA and Amazonika Mundi. The initiative aims to integrate plantation science, value-chain analytics, AI-enabled advisory, financial services (credit & insurance), sustainable processing, and structured market integration in Brazil, with potential replication in India.