Digital Solution
Krishi Guru

country Nepal

Krishi Guru provide farmers with valuable information and resources to enhance their farming practices including crop-specific advice, market prices, weather updates and expert guidance on pest control and best agricultural practices through its mobile app and SMS based services. It helps the farmers in Nepal by sending localised and contextual agriculture information like crop advisory, weather foreacast and market price information. Some of the Features can be used offline after its download while all the features that requires internet can be browse for free of data cost from Ncell Sim Card. It has more than 100 package of practices of commercial vegetable, cereals, medicinal plants, floriculture, cash crops, Livestocks and Poultry farming. This agro app has more than 50K downloads where farmers can be linked with cultivation rearing technology of agricultural commodities as well as livestock production. The interesting feature in this app is the provision of weight calculation of livestock by measuring girth and length.

Digital Solution (DS) Category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Digital Solution Type (sub-category)

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

Market and price data analytics

Delivery type (format)

Mobile app

Web based platform

DS supplier-user category

Business to consumers

Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)

ICT startup

Name of supplier/developer

ICT For Agri P. Ltd.

Primary Users

Farmers

Digital Solution Development Stage

Commercial stage (broad use use locally)

Number of users or subscribers

100K farmers

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

This app plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between traditional farming and modern technology, empowering farmers to make informed decisions, increase their yields, and ultimately improve their livelihoods.

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

DS links to Government programmes, initiatives, and projects

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

https://files.digitalfrontiersdai.com/media/documents/USAID-Nepal_Digital_Agriculture_Ecosystem_Assessment_public.pdf

Other relevant links and information sources on DS

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital initiatives