Mobile Agriculture
August 6-2013
Mobile Agriculture
Mobile Farmer SMS Service:
mFarmer SMS will be a two-way service, where the sender disseminates Market prices, Weather Forecasts, Farm advisory, Crop Growth cycle, important news, to the farming & associated communities. In response a farmer can access to a data base by just sending a SMS to a specify help line number and get the exact information. For example, if a farmer wants to know wheat buyers contact details of his area he will send a SMS to service provider and in response get the required information of his own area. Farmer can also access the weather forecasts of his area. Market rates of different mandis, Fertilizer & seed dealers contact details, Farmer loan policies and bank details
Mission
The mission of the project is to make valuable agricultural knowledge available at free of cost or optimal cost to the farmers as and when desired.
Objective
Short Term:
Disseminating valuable information to Farming and Associated Communities
Mid Term:
To provide mobile financing/insurance & trading terminal through peers & partners.
Long Term:
Paradigm shifting of traditional Agriculture Extension services into mAgriculture.