Agricultural Information Management System (AIMS)
Sri Lanka
Agricultural Information Management System (AIMS) is developed by the Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board (AAIB) with technical assistance from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) – a multi donor trust fund. AIMS consists of a web and mobile application to manage accurate data and streamline the operational aspects of the agriculture sector by connecting all stakeholders in to one hub. It carries a centralized database that consists of farmer and farm field information along with geographical referencing, location data, weather data, irrigation system, fertilizer and many more details to facilitate the current requirements. AIMS also provides services such as 1) Insurance: Manage the whole agriculture insurance process 2) Yield Predictions: Providing data to forecast yield predictions 3) Fertilizer: Streamlining the grant to manage the cost expenses and 4) Irrigation: Irrigation information for water management and assessment.
Lead (category)
Government agency
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board (AAIB)
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board (AAIB) with technical assistance from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) under the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) – a multi donor trust fund. AIMS is a pioneering step towards modernizing the agriculture sector in Sri Lanka.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Mobile applications
Web-based platform
Smart irrigation system
Interactive data exchanges
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Government
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
818431 Farmers are recorded 2662 Farm Fields Source: Developer website
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Sri Lanka
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution