The document discusses a proposed mobile application called "Farmer Friend" that would provide Nepalese farmers access to agricultural information, expert contacts, weather data, advisory services, and a financial advisor tool via a mobile phone. It notes that agriculture makes up a large portion of Nepal's GDP and workforce but remains at a low development stage, and that mobile technologies could help address issues in the sector by connecting farmers to valuable resources. The proposed application would be an Android app that centralizes various useful services for farmers in one place to help improve agricultural productivity and incomes.

1. Project Title: Mobile Technologies
for Agriculture Sector Development
(M-Agriculture)
Ravi Chandra Gurung
London Metropolitan University
Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing
MSc Information Technology

2. Agriculture and allied sectors in
Nepal: Key Facts
60 Percentage of total population are depend upon agriculture sector1st
*
GDP agriculture: 36.8%, industries: 14.5%, services: 48.7% (2013 est)2nd
**
Main Production: rice, wheat, jute, meat, pulses, corn, sugarcane
and milk
3rd
**
Agriculture Sector Stage: “Low Development Stage”4th *
Reason: labor productivity, trading and market competition, poverty and
malnutrition, technology, commercialized products and value added products
5th
*
Source:
* TA 7762-NEP Preparation of thevAgricultural Development Strategy (ADS)
Assessment Report Government of Nepal, 2012
** CIA Nepal FACT BOOKS, 2013

3. Agriculture Life Cycle

4. Mobile Agriculture
• Subset of the E-Agriculture
• agriculture value chain .
• Mobile technology includes broad range of devices and services
include voice, data, network and connectivity technologies.
• Penetration of the mobile communication is 79% in the total of
the Telecommunication technology.
• Total mobile subscriber is about 21 Million - 26.5 Million (NTA-
MIS-85, 2014).

5. Farmer Friend
(Android Application)
• Information Center
• Expert Contact Access (Companies-NGO/INGO, Government and
Private companies)
• Weather Information
• Advisory Services
• Financial Advisor (Simple ROI Calculator)

6. Farmer Friend
(First Application View)
Information
Center
Weather
Contact
Access
Advisory
Center
Financial
Advisor
About
Home Screen
Grid View
Clickable

7. Farmer Friend
(Information Center)
Information Center
News
Learning Center
News
RSS Feed
Video Link
to Content
Provider

8. Farmer Friend
(Contact Access)
Contact Access
Expandable List
Phone Number click action will
help direct contact
E-mail Address click action will
open default mail application
Contact information
INGO/NGO
Private companies
Government
directly involve in
the Agriculture

9. Farmer Friend
(Weather Information)
Weather Information
Weather forecast
Current Weather
Five Days Forecast
Provider: Yahoo
Weather
Current Weather
Highest/Lowest
Temperature
Wind
Humidity
Visibility
Forecast 1 – 5 days
Use GPS
Search location

10. Farmer Friend
(Financial Advisor)
Financial Advisor
It is simple
investment and
revenue calculator
Investment
Revenue
Loan
Profit
Calculate Save
Harvest Name

11. Research Topic
Messaging System Technologies in
Mobile Communication
• Mobile primary usage
• SMS,EMS,MMS,E-Mail and IM
• evolution of the messaging system
• Application area of the messaging system
• security aspects regarding messaging system through mobile.
• Future Advancement

12. Thank You

13. RSS
• http://www.fao.org/news/rss-feed/en/ (** Global news releases **
Asia and the Pacific Biotechnology Emergencies Fisheries
and Acquaculture Forestry Gender In Action
International Year of Family Farming Near East and North
Africa Project updates Statistics Trade and markets Zero
Hunger Challenge)
• http://www.agweb.com/rss/list.aspx (GWEB RSS Feeds AgriTalk
Beef Today Cattle-Exchange.com Dairy Today Farm Journal
Legacy Project Top Producer)
• http://www.farms.com/farmspages/generate_rss_portal/tabid/37
8/default.aspx (