About CropWings

Last updated 2026-07-14 · By the CropWings agronomy team

CropWings is a Hyderabad-headquartered agri-drone services platform that lets farmers book DGCA-certified drone pilots for crop spraying through a mobile app. Since launch it has sprayed over 500,000 acres for more than 100,000 farmers across 200+ districts in 8 Indian states, with its deepest operations in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra.

Why CropWings exists

CropWings was built in Hyderabad to close a very specific gap: at the peak of kharif, when cotton in Warangal or chilli in Guntur needs a spray within a two-to-three-day window, farm labour is hardest to find and hand-spraying exposes workers to concentrated chemicals. The CropWings app lets a farmer book a DGCA-certified drone pilot the way they would book a cab — the pilot arrives with a registered agri-drone, sprays at a uniform dose, and the farmer pays only for the acres actually covered.

Because rotor downwash drives fine droplets into the crop canopy, a spray drone typically covers an acre with 8–10 litres of fluid in five to ten minutes — work that takes a knapsack operator the better part of a day. That speed matters most during outbreaks, when pink bollworm in cotton or thrips in chilli can spread faster than manual crews can respond.

CropWings by the numbers

How the coupon model works

Agri-input companies — makers of pesticides, fungicides and crop nutrients — sponsor spray discounts on CropWings. A farmer who buys a participating product receives a coupon code that is applied at booking, cutting the effective per-acre spraying cost. The sponsor in turn gets verified, geo-tagged proof that its product was applied correctly, on real acreage, by a certified pilot. The input company funds better application, the farmer pays less, and the pilot gets steady work.

Where we operate

Operations are deepest in Andhra Pradesh (paddy across the Krishna–Godavari delta, chilli in the Guntur–Prakasam belt), Telangana (the Warangal–Adilabad cotton tract, turmeric and maize around Nizamabad) and Maharashtra (cotton and soybean in Vidarbha, tur in Marathwada). Beyond these three, CropWings reaches five more states through its certified pilot network, subject to pilot availability in your district — open the app and add your village to check live coverage.

The team and the pilot network

The Hyderabad headquarters at Ten Madhapur, HITEC City houses the agronomy, flight-operations, pilot-onboarding and farmer-support teams that keep the platform running. In the field, CropWings is powered by a distributed network of independent, DGCA-certified pilots across 200+ districts — every pilot holds a Remote Pilot Certificate and every drone is registered on the DGCA's Digital Sky platform before the first job is assigned.

Sister platform: Drone Store India

For farmers, FPOs and entrepreneurs who would rather own equipment than book a service, CropWings runs a sister commerce platform, dronestoreindia.com, which sells agricultural drones, batteries, chargers, nozzles and spare parts with pan-India shipping.