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Otipy’s ‘Annapoorna’ campaign celebrates women’s contributions to agriculture
Mumbai: On International Women’s Day, Otipy, the pioneering agritech start-up is highlighting gender inequality within the industry. Through a powerful video campaign called ‘Annapoorna’ Otipy highlights the indispensable contributions of women to agriculture, particularly amidst the backdrop of increasing urban migration among men.
As urbanisation continues to draw men away from rural areas, women are stepping into vital roles within agriculture. They are cultivating crops, laboring on farms, and participating in related sectors such as animal husbandry, gardening, and post-harvest processing. These diverse contributions highlight the crucial role that women play in sustaining agricultural communities and economies.
Otipy’s ‘Annapoorna’ video campaign emphasizes that ending poverty necessitates the eradication of gender discrimination. It highlights how gender inequality deprives women of their rights and opportunities, perpetuating cycles of poverty. This cycle entraps women in a state of economic disadvantage, underscoring the urgency of dismantling gender-based biases and promoting equality.
Otipy founder & CEO Varun Khurana expressed the organization’s commitment to empowering women in agriculture. “At Otipy, we believe in the transformative power of empowering women in agriculture. The resilience, skills, and dedication that women bring to the sector are unparalleled. Through our campaign ‘Annapoorna’, we aim to reinforce the urgent need to dismantle gender-based discrimination, recognizing that true progress in ending poverty requires the full and equal participation of women in every facet of agricultural development.”
In line with its mission, Otipy announces plans to conduct monthly training sessions for women farmers. These sessions, facilitated by teams from various stratas of life at Otipy, will cover essential practical skills like internet navigation, creating safe finance management, using smartphones, watching out for underlying ailments, hygiene practices, etc. Additionally, Otipy is also trying to address societal taboos surrounding issues like menstrual hygiene and periods, ensuring that women can engage fully in agricultural activities without encountering discrimination or barriers.
Through these initiatives, Otipy reaffirms its dedication to fostering gender equality and empowering women in agriculture. By providing resources and support, Otipy is laying the groundwork for a more inclusive and sustainable future for women farmers.
NATIONAL: Amazon Ads has laid out a sharply tech-led vision for the advertising industry in 2026, arguing that artificial intelligence, streaming TV and creator partnerships will combine to turn brand building into a more precise, performance-driven business.
At the heart of the shift, the company says, is the fusion of AI with Amazon’s vast trove of shopping, browsing and streaming signals, allowing advertisers to move beyond blunt reach metrics to campaigns designed around real customer behaviour.
“The future of advertising is not about reaching more people, but the right people with messages that resonate,” said Amazon Ads India head and vice president Girish Prabhu. “By combining AI with deep customer insights, we help brands move from broadcasting campaigns to having meaningful conversations wherever audiences spend their time.”
One of the biggest changes, according to Amazon Ads, will be the collapse of the wall between media planning and creative development. Retail media, powered by first-party data, is increasingly shaping everything from brand discovery to final purchase, pushing marketers to design campaigns around audience insight rather than internal instinct.
AI is also moving from a support tool to a creative engine. Agentic AI, which automates and accelerates production, is expected to make high-quality creative accessible even to small businesses, compressing weeks of work into hours and giving challengers the ability to compete with larger brands on speed and scale.
Behind the scenes, AI-driven analytics will take on a bigger role in campaign optimisation, identifying patterns, spotting opportunities and recommending actions that would previously have required teams of analysts.
Streaming TV is another big battleground. With India’s video streaming audience now above 600 million and connected TV users at 129.2 million in 2025, advertisers are set to treat streaming not just as a branding channel but as a performance engine, measured increasingly by sales, sign-ups and bookings rather than just reach.
Finally, Amazon Ads sees creators and contextual advertising reshaping how brands tell stories. Creators will act less like influencers and more like long-term partners, while scene-aware ads on streaming platforms will allow brands to insert hyper-relevant offers into the flow of what viewers are watching.
Taken together, Amazon Ads argues, these shifts mark a move towards advertising that is both more human and more measurable, where AI handles the complexity, and creativity does the persuading.
