Agriculture Information Service (AIS) Portal

Developed by by Bangladesh's Department of Agriculture, the Agriculture Information Service (AIS) is a web portal which provides agricultural services to farmers, merchants, producers, importers, and other agricultural and agricultural research-related persons/organizations. There are 38 services (irrigation water quality testing, irrigation card, seed sale, market information, online fertilizer recommendation, fertilizer production registration, fertilizer-import registration etc.). The initiative target farmers (12 services), merchants (12 services), producers (3 services), importers (3 services), exporters (1 service), and others (20 services).

Lead (category)

Government agency

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Department of Agriculture, Bangladesh

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

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

Implemented by Bangladesh's Department of Agriculture

DI ICT-deliverables format

Web-based platform

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Extension agents

Government

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

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 Bangladesh

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

Main DI webpage

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution