Named the standout technology innovator in one of India’s most strategically vital agro-industrial sectors
Mumbai, June 15: Findability Sciences walked away with the “Excellence in AI for Sugar Industry” Award at the 3rd Sugar, Ethanol & BioEnergy International Awards (SEIA) 2026, the sector’s most prominent recognition platform, organised by ChiniMandi.
The award was presented on the opening evening of the Sugar, Ethanol & Bioenergy India Conference 2026 and it places Findability Sciences squarely at the centre of a sector undergoing its most significant technological shift in decades.
India’s sugar industry, the world’s second largest, is under mounting pressure to improve cane yields, mill recovery, ethanol blending targets, and sustainability outcomes, all at once. Findability Sciences has been building the AI infrastructure to make that possible: connecting field-level data, factory operations, and enterprise decision-making into one coherent intelligence layer.
People don’t always realize this; sugar, ethanol, and bioenergy are the livelihood of millions of farming families, the fuel in our vehicles, and increasingly, the answer to energy security questions that governments are scrambling to solve. And yet, this industry is still making its most critical decisions the way it did thirty years ago, on experience, on whatever data someone managed to write down before the season ended. I’ve sat with mill managers who are brilliant at what they do but fly blind when it counts most. That’s the gap we’re here to close. Because when you get the intelligence layer right, it’s not just a mill that runs better, it’s a farmer who gets a fair price, a country that hits its ethanol targets, and an industry that finally has the tools to match its own potential.” said Anand Mahurkar, Founder & CEO.
The company’s sugar and agri AI portfolio includes Stoma Sense, which delivers crop intelligence and field-level insights directly to farmers, and Stoma Insight, an analytics and decision support platform for agri-industrial stakeholders across the sugar value chain. Its on-ground footprint in the sector spans a partnership with Grupo Pantaleon to deploy next-generation AI for the sugar value chain; a collaboration with Agricultural Development Trust, Baramati, where AI adoption has drawn recognition for measurable impact; and the Jalna Super 50 AI Farmers Programme, run with the District Administration of Jalna and the Maharashtra Agriculture Department to bring AI-led decision support to sugarcane farmers.
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