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ICT For Agriculture

ICT For Agriculture. K.I.L. Agriculture Group. Agricultural Challenges. Lack of planting and harvesting knowledge Not able to protect from disease Product quality is not consistant Not having information about market prices. Solution. ICT Solution.

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ICT For Agriculture

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  1. ICT For Agriculture K.I.L. Agriculture Group

  2. Agricultural Challenges • Lack of planting and harvesting knowledge • Not able to protect from disease • Product quality is not consistant • Not having information about market prices

  3. Solution

  4. ICT Solution • Choosing an ICT solution should reflect the focus on rural connectivity, content applicability and capacity to scale. • Mobile-based ICT solutions have an edge over other solutions as they provide for easy access and affordability. • Within the realm of mobile-based ICT solutions, it is important to analyze the technology capabilities (voice, text & data) vis-à-vis user-related challenges

  5. Benefits of Mobile Application • SMS (Text, limit, illitracy) • Interactive Voice Reponse (Sound, costs) • Mobile App (More Information, text, sound)

  6. Dehqan • Mobile Software platform that facilitates the market information, weather information, farm advisory and Inquiry to farmers. According to farmers: • Language • Province,District • Litracy (Text, Sound)

  7. Dehqan • Weather Information: providing weather forcasts based on Districts, Province. • Market Rate: providing the most accurate and reliable market rates from all local markets. • Farm Advisory: providing approved information on cultivation, Fertalizing, Disease prevention, packaging of products. • Inquiry: All the question would be answered by Agriculture Experts.

  8. Dehqan Data Flow

  9. Dehqan Work Flow

  10. Dehqan-Partners • Ministry of Agriculture • Funding source • Telecommunication Company • Microcis Software Solution Company

  11. Dehqan Sustainability • Value Added Service for Telecommunication company like “Roshan Mahlomat Project” • Revenue model • Charge small amount of money for interaction (SMS & IVR)

  12. Future Features • Provide the market prices to population via application • Connecting farmers, buyers and Traders • Statistics information website for Ministry of Agriculture to have reports and market status.

  13. Pilot Project • The pilot project would be launched on a district of Herat, by installing Dehqan on simple phones of farmers to test and get feedbacks. • The pilot project would take one year. • 6 months for developing and testing. • 6 months for implementing the pilot project. • The estimated budget needed for pilot project is about 65000 USD

  14. Future Plan • After outcome of pilot project, whole project implementation will start by: • Contracting Telecommunication company to provide Dehqan SIM card which the Dehqan application can be accessed. • Implementation of project would cover all over Afghanistan.

  15. Application Demo !

  16. Thanks for Attention

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