Krishi Guru
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)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital initiatives