Pesticide Aid OR Pesticide Assistant
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)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital initiatives