Digital Solution
Smart Krishi

country Nepal

SmartKrishi Nepal empowers farmers with knowledge and tools to improve their agricultural practices. Its mobile app and web-based services have made it an invaluable resource for farmers, helping them to access package of practises of agriculture and livestock. Smart Krishi has already been downloaded about 100k times. More than 2k have given the review and the app is available for both Android and iOS platforms. The app provides information about livestock, agriculture, and agricultural insurance including its procedure as well. Smart Krishi has incorporated a wide range of information from cereal crop production to vegetable cultivation, cash crops, fruit crops as well as non-timber forest products. Furthermore, pest management of various crops, commercial goat farming, boar goat farming, buffalo and cow rearing, fish production technologies are also available in detail. There is a platform for the interaction of farmers with experts. Experienced farmers can connect with each other and share their problems, needs, and experiences through “Krishak Sanjal”. It is a web network where farmers can get any required information about training programs going to be held by some organization, agriculture credit information, marketing and so on. They also provide weather forecasting and provide a daily update of the agro market price from 15 cities of Nepal.

Digital Solution (DS) Category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Digital Solution Type (sub-category)

Farm advisory services, Pest and disease management, Weather forecasting services

Market and price data analytics

Delivery type (format)

Mobile app

Social media platforms

DS supplier-user category

Business to consumers

Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)

ICT startup

Name of supplier/developer

Smart Krishi P. Ltd.

Primary Users

Farmers , SMEs / agripreneurs , Value chain actors

Digital Solution Development Stage

Commercial stage (widespread use nationally)

Number of users or subscribers

225K farmers

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

SmartKrishi Nepal plays a vital role in increasing awerness on production practises and farm management solution that enhances overall farm productivity, contributing to food security and economic growth in the region.

Digital Solution Geographic scope

National

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