Mobile apps in Agriculture -Initiatives and applications

1. WELCOME

2. MOBILE APPS IN AGRICULTURE
INITIATIVES AND APPLICATIONS
Chairperson:
Dr.J.MEENEAMBIGAI
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Extension
Presented by:
M.KEERTHANA
D.LOKESHWARAN
II M.Sc(Ag.)
Department of Agricultural Extension

4. INTRODUCTION
 Agriculture plays a vital role in the
Indian economy with over 58% of rural
households depending on agriculture.
 The need for timely access to
information for decision making in
agriculture and allied sectors needs no
emphasis.

5.  Mobile communication technology
 Mobile applications– Agricultural Rural
Development by providing access to
information, market and services to
rural inhabitants (world bank, 2012).

6. MOBILE APPLICATIONS
 Message that can be delivered will have
combination of information mix
(audio+video+text+graphics+animations)
 Recent apps are in local languages that
too in audio and video format so illiterate
can access information anywhere and at
any time.
 Internet-some apps require internet and
some don’t require.
 For easy operations- appropriate icons
which are recognizable by farmers are
developed with simple touch screen
technology.

8. KISAN SUVIDHA
Developed by: Ministry
of Agriculture and
Farmers.

9.  Kisan suvidha is an
omnibus mobile app
developed to help
farmers by providing
revelant information.
 Weather, Market Price,
Dealers, Plant
Protection, Agro
Advisory, Call To KCC

11. SOIL HEALTH CARD
Soil Health Card scheme is a Government of
India scheme promoted by the Department of
Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare,
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and
being implemented in the state and union
territories.
A SHC gives soil nutrients status to each farmer
for his/her land holding and also gives advices
on fertilizer dosage and soil ammendments
needed to maintain soil health in the long run.

13. CCE AGRI MOBILE APP
 In rural areas, there will be no or poor internet
connection that is why this app has been
designed in such a way that data can be
collected without internet connection.
 It works in both online and offline mode.
 Internet is required only to download the app
and doing registration.
 Affter that CCE data can be entered using this
app without internet connection.
 And as and when internet is available, data can
be pushed to the server.

14. REGISTRATION IN CCE AGRI:
Step1: Select the
registration level(state,
district, block) in
registration form.
Step2: complete the
registration form by filling
all the details in the
registration form and then
click on submit button.
Step3: one user per state
will be authorized by
central level & that state
level user further approve
users of District & Block
levels.

15. USER APPROVAL
 Pending: Shows list of pending
user for approval
 Approved: Shows list of
approved user
 Rejected: Shows list of rejected
user with reason of rejection

16. HOME SCREEN
 There are 4 Options available on
the screen:
CCE survey
Saved CCE data
View sent CCE data
Approve user
 Approve* user option is avalaible
for state and district level user.

17. LOGIN
STEP 1: After successful
registeration and approval
you will be able to login.
Step 2: Enter your mobile
no. and Password to login
into the app.

18. CCE SURVEY
Select the picking type
In crop cutting survey
from mobile will
automatically capture
GPS and then further
information can be
filled.
Click on photo button to
capture photograph

21. CCE SURVEY
After entering data,
there are two options:
Send
Save and send later

23. VIEW SENT CCE DATA
View CCE sent CCE
data show the list of
data sent from mobile
to the server

24. BENEFITS OF CCE AGRI APP
Significantly improve data speed (from
harvesting to insurance loss estimation) and
biggest gain is data quality:
Geo-tagging ensures field visit
Photos mitigate manipulation risk, and
Data transfer greatly improves data
consolidation/analysis
Reduced time in data collation
Reduced time in claim settlement

25. CROP INSURANCE
Developed by:
Department of
Agriculture and
Farmers Welfare (DAC
& FW).
It provides details of
crop insurance.

26. Features:
Crop insurance mobile app can
be used to calculate the
insurance premium for notified
crops based on area, coverage
amount and loan amount in
case of loanee farmer.
It can also used to get details of
normal sum insured, extended
sum insured, of any of notified
crop in notified area.

27. eNAM:
Developed by: Small Farmer
Agribusiness Consortium(SFAC),
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare, Govt. of India.
Purpose of mobile app is to facilitate
remote bidding by traders and access to
arrivals and price related information to
farmers and other holders on their smart
phones.

28. E-NAM PROCESS

29. REGISTRATION

31. NO.OF STAKEHOLDERS IN E-NAM
(AS ON 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2019)
source:enam.gov.in

32. BENEFITS

33. AGRIMARKET
Developed by: Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare.
AgriMarket app is used to
get market price of crops in
the markets within 50kms
of the device’s location

34. DIGITAL MANDI INDIA
 Helps in checking the latest Mandi prices of
agricultural commodities reported from
different states and districts/ mandis in india.

35. FEATURES
 One can browse through various commodity
categories and get the selected commodity’s
price reported by various states/ by mandi.
 Simplified flow to reach the selected
commodity’s mandi price.
 Copy the mandi price of a commodity and
share the price on social media.
 Sync data the Indian government portal
Agmarknet.nic.in

36. PUSA KRISHI
Pusa krishi mobile app
launched in MARCH
21,2016.
Information about new
varieties released by ICAR.
“LAB TO LAND”
ICAR

38. riceXpert
ICAR-National Rice
Research Institute-
Cuttack.
View to reach the latest
rice technologies to the
rice farmers in real time
basis.

39. OILSEEDS
ICAR IIOR CASTOR
Jan 10, 2018.
General information
Agronomic practices
Hybrids
Varieties
Cropping systems

40. ICAR- IIOR safflower:
Jun 7, 2017
Commodity markets
Major pest and diseases
Varieties and hybrids

41. ICAR IIOR Sunflower

42. SOLAPUR ANAR
To educate pomegranate
growers about scientific
pomegranate production.
Include publications
Announcement from
National Research Centre
on Pomegranate- trainings,
seminar
English, Hindi, Marathi

43. CANE ADVISOR
ICAR- sugarcane breeding
institute, coimbatore, TN.
Details from planting to
harvest with text and
relevant graphics.
Scheduler
Query handler

44. MKRISHI FISHERIES APP
 Developed by Tata Consultancy Services
Innovation lab-Mumbai, in collaboration with
ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research
Institute & Indian National Centre for Ocean
Information Service(INCOIS) Hyderabad.
 INCOIS generate Potential Fishing Zone(PFZ),
a fish shoals sensing data received from
NOAA Satellites, sea surface temperature and
the presence of phytoplankton which form the
food of several fish species.

45. App consolidates this
information and presents
advisories in local
language.
Raigad, Maharashtra.
Registered users.
To reduce unnecessary
trips.

46. IFFCO KISAN AGRI
Developed by: IFFCO Kisan,
a subsidiary of Indian
Farmers Fertilizer
Cooperative Ltd.
Features:
Weather
Market Price
Agricultural Advisory
Agriculture Library

47. DASHBOARD

48. EXPERT SYSTEM FOR VARIOUS
CROPS
Sugarcane expert system
Cultivation practices
Irrigation management
Nutrient management
Crop protection
Post harvest technology

49. PADDY EXPERT SYSTEM
Nursery management
Nutrient management
Marketing
Schemes

50. COCONUT EXPERT SYSTEM
 Pest and disease
managememt
 Coconut processing
 Institutions for coconut

51. CATTLE EXPERT SYSTEM
Feeding management
Breeding management
Disease management
Production technology

52. FISHER FRIENDLY MOBILE
APPLICATION(FFMA)
Developed by: MS Swaminathan Research
Foundation in partnership with Qualcomm &
INCOIS.

53. PASHU POSHAN
 Balanced ration can be
formulated while optimizing
the cost considering animal
profile, i.e. cattle or buffalo,
age, milk production, milk fat
and feeding regime etc.
 To adjust the quantity of
locally available feeding
ingredients offered to their
animals.

54. DAIRY TELUGU & DAIRY KANNADA

55. OTHER APPS
Shetkari Masik android app
“Shetkari Masik”-popular
magazine
Department of agriculture,
Maharashtra
Internet or wifi connectivity

56. FARM-O-PEDIA
Developed by: C-DAC
Mumbai
Multilingual android
application for rural Gujarat
Functions: suitable crops,
crop wise information,
weather and manage your
cattle.

57. AGRI-APP
 Crop production, crop
protection, and all relevant
agriculture allied services on
your smartphone
 Kannada, English, Hindi,
Telugu, Tamil, and Marathi

58. PLANT PEST AND DISEASE
MANAGEMENT
Plantix
Features:
 Real-time diagnosis.
 Weather information
system.
 Community features
facilitates interaction.
 Smallholder farmers as
end-users.

59. RECENTLY DEVELOPED MOBILE
APPLICATIONS IN 2019
 Meghdoot: The Ministry of Earth
Sciences and Agriculture have launched
a mobile application that will provide
location, and crop and livestock-specific
weather- based agro advisories to
farmers in local languages.
 CHC: Farmers can select and order the
required machinery at the feasible for
them from the Custom Hiring Centers
located in the radius of 50 kms

61. CHALLENGES
Lack of mobile friendly and locally relevant
digital content in local languages.
Rural mobile infrastructure
Digital illiteracy and lack of awareness
Difficult for preparing content repository
Greater customization and frequent updating
of information is required.
Frequent criticism is that the information
provided is “old and routine”.

62. SUCCESS STORIES
GFPCL at Modasa in Gujarat help farmers realise
higher prices through eNAM.

63.  Better prices obtained by MPFSRPCL farmers
through eNAM.

64. FUTURE PROSPECTS

65. CONCLUSION
Mobile phone act as a catalyst for rural
development and country’s economic
growth.
Need based, location specific and
individual oriented.
Accessability, Affordability,
Applications”.

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