AgrEAssist - a digital solution for farmers
It’s not easy being a farmer these days and it’s bound to get harder, with more and more cosmopolitan culture catching-up in terms of shifting of occupation to fancier streams, and conversion of farm lands into residential and commercial lands due to poor hope on crop returns. Sowing, nurturing and harvesting - all these are dependent on Mother Nature. The farmers need proactive and automatic assistance in addition to manual monitoring. This thought process pressed us come up with digital assistance for the farmers.
Other problem is re the middlemen who procure the produce at the base price set by government citing quality issues with the produce. This problem needs to be eliminated via a regulatory process and direct connect between the farmer and the buyer.
The application prototype offers two things:
1. Trigging automatic and in-time alerts about any unfavorable weather conditions such as heavy rainfall, high windspeed, high/low temperature etc. The alerts are based on the real-time location of the farmer, or can be based on the farmer's crop location.
2. Online sale of produces from the farmer with regulated prices and quality of each of the produce, thus eliminating the middleman's exploitation.