Krishi Batayon
Bangladesh
This app helps farmers in finding various kinds of useful info and also provides advisory service. It has a central database of 8.2 million farmers and agriculture-related information. Information on the stores where fertilisers and pesticides are sold in the country is present in the database, including the names, addresses and contact numbers of the shops selling those items. The app also contains data on 5500 ‘haats and bazaars’. Using the app, a farmer can find out what market or fair is situated near him. The government is working on expanding the scope of the app to include nearly 26 million farmers all over the country to disburse subsidies and credit/loan schemes etc.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services
Market and price data analytics
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Radisson Digital Technologies Limited
Primary Users
Farmers , Value chain actors
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (widespread use nationally)
Number of users or subscribers
8.2 million farmers and agriculture-related information. 5500 Bazaar (markets) database
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Bangladesh
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes