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Rumsan provided consulting services to CARE Nepal, an international humanitarian organization, to develop "KrishiPath"- an e-commerce platform for farmers, agro-vets, and agro-traders to buy and sell their products. It acts as a solution to mitigate access to market challenges such as there was no adequate information and access to the market due to the restrictions on the movement of people and agricultural products. The main objective of the KrishiPath platform is to connect all the stakeholders digitally in a single platform where they can exchange information related to the availability of agricultural products and their prices. It also offers an agro-meteorological advisory service, a crop calendar, and a list of agro-vets for farmers to contact when in need.
Rumsan provided consulting services to CARE Nepal, an international humanitarian organization, to develop "KrishiPath"- an e-commerce platform for farmers, agro-vets, and agro-traders to buy and sell their products. It acts as a solution to mitigate access to market challenges such as there was no adequate information and access to the market due to the restrictions on the movement of people and agricultural products. The main objective of the KrishiPath platform is to connect all the stakeholders digitally in a single platform where they can exchange information related to the availability of agricultural products and their prices. It also offers an agro-meteorological advisory service, a crop calendar, and a list of agro-vets for farmers to contact when in need.
The Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic caused chaos in the underprivileged, vulnerable, and socially excluded communities, particularly smallholders, landless, and the daily wage earners. Due to restrictions in movement, it affected vulnerable communities and the smallholder farmers as there was no access to market information and the marketplace. Likewise, they also experienced a drop in production and did not receive a fair price for their goods, resulting in lower-income. Also, because markets including agro-vets were also shut down during the lockdown, it became difficult for farmers to purchase the required agro-inputs. During the pandemic, smallholder farmers and other agro-traders require real-time market information and a virtual connection to the market in order to keep their earnings prospects alive and meet their needs.
The Solutions
‘Krishipath 'has been designed as a one-stop digital solution for agriculture knowledge, inputs, services, information and market. It is also a vehicle for disseminating agromet advisory services and information related to climate smart agricultural models, approaches and practices among farmers. ‘Krishipath app includes interactive features through which producers get access to the market and can connect with respective experts for solution to problems related to production and climate smart agricultural (CSA) practice.
Technology
- Database: MongoDB
- UI: CSS/Javascript with material UI framework
- Programming Language: JavaScript, React Native (Mobile Application)
- Server: NodeJS
- UI: CSS/Javascript with Bootstrap