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
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
Benefits of Mobile Application
SMS (Text, limit, illitracy)
Interactive Voice Reponse (Sound, costs)
Mobile App (More Information, text,
sound)
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)
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.
Dehqan Data Flow
Dehqan Work Flow
Dehqan-Partners
Ministry of Agriculture
Funding source
Telecommunication Company
Microcis Software Solution Company
Dehqan Sustainability
Value Added Service for
Telecommunication company like
“Roshan Mahlomat Project”
Revenue model
Charge small amount of money for
interaction (SMS & IVR)
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.
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
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.
Application Demo !
Thanks for Attention