AgriSpark 2.0 - Farm Smarter

Because every farming decision counts.

What is
AGRISPARK?

AGRISPARK is Thailand’s innovation-driven hackathon connecting agricultural challenges from the field with solution developers. It was initiated by the German-Thai Agricultural Cooperation (GETHAC).

The first edition was launched in mid 2025 with "Hack the Hills!" theme to tackle one of Thailand’s biggest challenges: maize residue management and the burning crisis in steep terrains of upland areas.

This year, AGRISPARK makes its comeback with a new theme: "Farm Smarter". Because every farming decision counts. It challenges the lack of AI driven crop production and farm management tools for small holder farmers. Thus, this AI-driven Smart Advisory theme was born. 

Read about AGRISPARK 1.0

Problem Statement

Farmers, specifically smallholder farmers, across Southeast Asia are navigating increasing challenges such as climate change, soil degradation, labor shortage, limited access to finance, rising costs, and market uncertainties.

At the same time, related data, powerful processing technologies, and latest Artificial Intelligence are available. The challenge lies in combining data and technologies into a tool that provides clear, usable decision support to smallholder farmers in their daily operations.

AGRISPARK 2.0 brings together innovators, researchers, and the agricultural industry to build AI solutions for smallholder farmers or for those who support them, that work in real farming contexts. 

The Challenge

This year, AGRISPARK focuses on one core question: How can AI help farmers and advisory systems make smarter decisions? 

We are looking for solutions that turn complex information into simple, practical recommendations for small holder farmers directly or for those who support them.

The solutions shall:

2 Innovation Tracks

Ideation Track

For early-stage teams and new ideas

You should address:

A clear farmer problem
An AI-based concept/ solution

What we expect:

G - O - A - L

"Identify bold ideas with strong potential"

Prototype Track (TRL 4 - 8)

For startups, researchers, and companies

You should address:

A clear farmer problem
An AI-based concept/ solution

What we expect:

G - O - A - L

"Identify solutions ready for piloting and scaling"

Guidelines for proposal

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The guidelines include:

How your proposal fits the challenge
AI & Technical approach
Practical implementation
Economic value
Team introduction
Additional material

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Why Join
AGRISPARK?

• Every applicant will receive a "Certificate of Participation" as a token of appreciation for taking part in AGRISPARK 2.0. Those who pass into the Final Pitch stage will also get a "Certificate of Achievement".

Certificate, Prize money & Trophy

• There will be 6 Finalist Teams (3 teams per track) on the Final Pitch Day.

Ideation Track x 3 winners

First-prize winner 20,000 THB

Second-prize winner 12,000 THB

Third-prize winner 8,000 THB

Prototype Track x 3 winners

First-prize winner 20,000 THB

Second-prize winner 12,000 THB

Third-prize winner 8,000 THB

• The 6 Finalist Teams will be awarded with an exclusive "AGRISPARK Trophy" on the Final Pitch Day on 21 May 2026 at Farmer Future Exchange Zone, AGRITECHNICA Asia & HortEX 2026, BITEC Convention Hall (98-99), Bangkok

Remarks: AGRISPARK provides travel and accommodation allowance to support the expenditure for the Finalist Teams to come for the Final Pitch in Bangkok with the total amount of 10,000THB/Team. Please note that it is applied to domestic travel in Thailand only.

Training & Mentoring

• A FREE opportunity to get trained on "PartyRock" by AWS, a tool to develop engaging and useful apps with generative AI on 25 March 2026 at 5 - 8PM (Bangkok Time) via Microsoft Teams with below details:

Meeting ID:

Passcode:

• (Optional) Feedback and Mentoring session provided for the Semi-Finalist teams during the last week of April 2026 to prepare for 2nd round of Proposal Submission.

• (Optional) Pitching Training is available for the Finalist Teams around the second week of May 2026 to get ready for live Final Pitch on the global stage.

Global visibility stage

• Finalist Teams to live Final Pitch at the Farmer Future Exchange Zone at AGRITECHNICA Asia & HortEX 2026, a leading global exhibition in agricultural innovation, technology and machinery with dynamic zones (expert stage, seminars, startups zone, innovation booth and B2B networking area) visited by policymakers, public sector, private companies, NGOs and farmers from national and international level.

• An opportunity for every applicant to feature your idea or product on AGRISPARK website with "One-pager template" (optional).