Bihar’s farmers have an abundance problem. 

Many of them now rely on digital farm-advisory services to tend their crops, but there’s a glut of guidance, and it comes with strings attached and is often confusing.

Sudhanshu Kumar, a farmer in Samastipur, finds the ecosystem headachingly hard to navigate. In early March, he noticed a yellowing of leaves in his orchard. Concerned, he pulled up an app on his phone from an agritech startup and then a government advisory channel, and received contradictory guidance. The private app told him........

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