Digital Solution
Pesticide Aid OR Pesticide Assistant

country Bangladesh

Pesticide Assistant is an effort to provide a comprehensive database of approved pesticides available in mobile app format. Pesticides helper can be used to find out which companies are marketing the pesticides under any commercial name. Farmers can find out crop-wise application rates of specific pesticides. The AP number (agricultural pesticide number which is unique to each product field) of the approved pesticide can be verified. As a result, fake pesticides will be easier to detect. This app contains 1) list of deprecated pesticides and 2) list of organic pesticides approved for safe crop production

Digital Solution (DS) Category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Solution Type (sub-category)

Pest and disease management

Delivery type (format)

Mobile app

DS supplier-user category

Business to business

Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)

Agritech company

Name of supplier/developer

AR Technologies, Bangladesh

Primary Users

Farmers , Agribusiness / private company

Digital Solution Development Stage

Commercial stage (limited use)

Number of users or subscribers

Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience

Digital Solution Geographic scope

Few locations in Bangladesh

Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DS webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

DS links to Government programmes, initiatives, and projects

DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes

Other relevant links and information sources on DS

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital initiatives