Agrimedia

Agrimedia is a web and mobile app based digital information platform which provides agriculture advisory information services to farmers and input manufacturers in partnerships with Vinaphone, Mobifone, Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture, Pessl Instruments and Weather News. Farmers use Agrimedia for weather updates and to receive agriculture advisory information by SMS, call centre or mobile app which helps in increasing productivity and quality, leading to higher incomes. The Input Manufacturers use Agrimedia for advice on the weather, disease models and irrigation which helps in improving productivity, save money and increase revenues. Government use Agrimedia to broadcast official information to farmers. Agrimedia has over 1 million users to date, and is currently creating a M2M application which will see them become a B2B agriculture business.

Lead (category)

Private company

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

AGRIMEDIA LTD.

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Digital Finance

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

Being implemented by Agrimedia in partnerships with Vinaphone, Mobifone, Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture, Pessl Instruments and Weather News.

DI ICT-deliverables format

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Interactive data exchanges

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Agribusiness / private organization

Government

Farm organizations

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Agrimedia has over 1 million users to date, and is currently creating a M2M application which will see them become a B2B agriculture business. Source: Developer website

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

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 Vietnam

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution