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