Chattanooga start-up focused on helping increase crop yields for small acreage farmers
Soubantika (Sou) Palchoudhury learned a great deal about the challenges that farmers with small acreage face during her years growing-up in India. Now, the Assistant Professor of Civil and Chemical Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) is focused on helping significantly increase crop yields for those same farmers.
“I grew-up in the eastern part of India where my grandparents were farmers,” Palchoudhury says. “I saw the problems in small farms on yield. Later on, I wanted to use my expertise in nanochemistry to form a new and sustainable technology that can increase agricultural yield.”