Hyderabad Drone Startup AkinAnalytics Launches Indigenous NIKA2 Kisan Drone For Farmers

The tea gardens of Shillong and Meghalaya are steep, uneven and hard to reach from the air. AkinAnalytics, a Hyderabad women-led DeepTech startup, has built a drone with exactly that kind of terrain in mind. Its NIKA2 Kisan Medium Drone is now official, unveiled by Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan in New Delhi, where he also witnessed a demonstration of the platform.

One drone, many jobs

NIKA2 is a multi-payload agricultural drone featuring a 16-litre spraying payload and a 12-litre spreading payload. Its easy payload-change mechanism lets operators switch between spraying and spreading applications, allowing a single drone to handle multiple agricultural operations.

The platform also comes with terrain-following capability, fail-safe features and night-operation capability. Its applications extend beyond conventional agriculture to aquaculture feed distribution, making it useful for a wider range of field operations.

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Built for tough terrain

Terrain-following technology is particularly relevant for uneven and sloping agricultural landscapes. The company sees potential in plantation regions, including the tea-growing areas of Shillong and Meghalaya, where conventional aerial operations face serious challenges.

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Beyond drone manufacturing, AkinAnalytics is developing an AI-Augmented Drone Analytics Platform and Digital Twin technologies designed to turn drone and field data into actionable intelligence for asset inspection, measurement, monitoring and operational decisions.

A women-led ‘Make in India, Go Global’ story

Founder and CEO Janaki Pulaparthi, a Computer Science Engineer and ISB alumna, leads the company with a focus on developing intellectual property and deployable DeepTech solutions from India. AkinAnalytics has been supported by NIDHI PRAYAS, the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme and MeitY SAMRIDH, and has participated in the iDEX defence innovation ecosystem and Stanford Seed Spark.

“Our focus is on solving real problems through technology that is designed and developed in India. With NIKA2, we want to make drone technology more versatile and useful for farmers while building capabilities that can eventually serve multiple industries and geographies,” Pulaparthi said.

The company also operates a DGCA-authorised Remote Pilot Training Organisation in Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, connecting indigenous drone technology with skilling and workforce development. With NIKA2, AkinAnalytics is pushing its vision of building technology in India, validating it in complex real-world conditions and taking it to global markets.