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OpenAgri has announced a major milestone in digital agriculture through a new strategic collaboration with the AgStack Foundation, a Linux Foundation project. Together, they have launched Pancake, an open-source unified core designed to make agricultural data and services interoperable, AI-ready, and accessible at scale.
The collaboration embeds OpenAgri’s portfolio of open-source tools into AgStack’s digital infrastructure ecosystem, addressing long-standing challenges in AgTech such as system fragmentation, vendor lock-in, and limited interoperability. Pancake acts as a shared backbone for authentication, semantics, service orchestration, and AI-native data management, enabling faster innovation for developers, clearer insights for farmers, and lower adoption barriers across the sector.
By providing free, standards-based infrastructure that works across cloud and edge environments, the initiative aims to accelerate the uptake of AI-driven solutions in agriculture while supporting sustainability, efficiency, and data sovereignty.
🔗 Read the full news article on the OpenAgri website: HERE.
