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AI starts to help India's struggling farms / 36X78EW
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Each morning Indian farmer R Murali opens an app on his phone to check if his pomegranate trees need watering or fertilizer or are at risk from pests.
"It is a routine," Murali, 51, told AFP at his farm in the southern state of Karnataka. "Like praying to God every day."
Much of India's vast agricultural economy -- employing more than 45 percent of the workforce -- remains deeply traditional, beset by problems made worse by extreme weather driven by climate change. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES