Agro-based mobile apps – A potential aid to the farmers on their finger tips

Authors

  • Manu Pattar
  • K. C. Prashanth

Keywords:

Agro-based mobile applications, information dissemination, technology intervention

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of our country, but the backbone needs more strength today to cater to the predicted increase in demand for food. Besides India being an agriculture based country, the majority of the farmers are facing many problems like lack of market price information, unnecessary expenditure on chemicals, unnecessary usage of chemicals which is a problem to the environment and the food quality too and many other such problems. Majority of the farmers still rely on information from the local middlemen and the local farming community which might leave them broken with misleading information. During the pandemic and other such critical situations mobility of the farmers will be paralyzed which multiplies the problems and challenge the farmers. Many of these problems arise because of lack of knowledge to access the scientific information. This paper focuses on one of the potential technological intervention that can aid the farmers in accessing the required information and avoid many of the problems stated above. In this paper, an extensive literary review is made to understand the benefits of agro-based mobile applications to the farmers and a few potential android mobile applications are selected from the android app store, and are extensively studied and categorized based on the benefits they provide to the farmers. Further researchers in this domain can also use this information in understanding the benefits that these agro-based mobile applications extend to the farming community which will result in strengthening the backbone of our country.

Published

2022-01-03