Facilitating Agro advisory services through ICT in Nepal

1. Facilitating Agro
Advisory Services
through
Ashish Bhandari
Director Marketing and Business Operations
Upveda Technology Pvt. Ltd.

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Proposed System
• Revenue
Generation Model
• Sustainability and
Scalability
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Proposed ICT
Model
Revenue
Generation
Model
Sustainability
and
Scalability

3. Introduction
Address the needs of the farming community and its
other related stakeholders


73%
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Provision of agriculture and weather advisory information and
services
Various delivery channels available in their vicinity for assisting them in
making rational decision
82 %
90%
27%

4. Proposed System Overview
Master Data
Management
System
Information
Dissemination
System
Agro Information
Web Based Information
Forecast Weather
Summary
Expert Advisory
Information
Weather Archive
Early Warning System
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Collaborative Social
Innovation
End User
Engagement
System
Social Curation
SMS Alerts
IVR/USSD Based
Information System
Radio/TV
Community Driven
Discovery
In Context
Immersion

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6. Novelty of ICT Based System
Content
Management
using Open
Source
Technology
Web based
application
with 3Tier
architecture
Platform
Independent
Language
API
Integration
(Weather
Data)
Scalable
Futuristic
Application
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Bridging the Digital Divide
Creating a Paradigm Shift
mKRISHI®
Internet
Kiosks
Information based proprietary technologies are
increasingly being generated and
diffused through the private sector

7. Revenue Generation
Model

8. 4P's (Public, Private, People, Process)
Telecom Service Providers
Dealer/ Farmer
ICT Based
Agro Advisory System
NGOs/INGOs
Research Institutions/Individuals
Govt
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9. Sustainable ICT Based AAS Revenue Generation
Transaction
Based
ICT Based AAS
Content Based
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10. Sustainability and
Scalability

11. • IT-based Regional Agro-Advisory System
• Subscription Based CLIENT CENTERED SOLUTIONS
• Farmers’ Database
• Access to markets, refining the associated economy
• Support the agro business stages of commercial trade, finance and risk management
(Reuters Market Light )
• Distribution networks through tie-ups with other players in the rural
markets and retail outlets
• Content Sourcing to Various Stakeholders (Research Institutes, NGO’s etc)
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12. Social Curation through ICT
Collect
Stories
from
Farmers
Web, SMS,
Field Visits
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Filter
Contents
Semantic
Analysis
Rank
Stories
Experiential
Farmer
Learning

13. Thank You
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