It was his farmer cousin’s struggles in Yeloa near Shirdi, that compelled Pune resident Tarang Patel to come up with a water tech solution six years ago. “He used to grow chick peas and cotton. Due to the erratic power supply there, he was forced to rush between home and farm, four kilometres apart, just to operate the pump for irrigating the field,” recalls Patel, a former sales and marketing professional. In 2018, Patel co-founded Intech Harness Pvt Ltd, an agri-tech startup, which offers technology solutions to problems in farm irrigation. The product on offer is the Jalaprayah Autotech Pump Controller, a patented IoT-enabled microcontroller based intelligent pump controller that responds to power and water disruptions without manual intervention.

InTech is one among a growing pool of startups offering water tech solutions in Maharashtra.