GeoBis
Bangladesh
Developed by mPower Social Enterprise Ltd. with funding from Netherlands Space Office (NSO), the GeoBis is a crop management advisory service for smallholder farmers to improve agricultural productivity. Using advanced crop model, spatial and weather data – GeoBis provides actionable advice to farmers including weather alerts (heat stress, cold stress, foggy weather etc.) and associated management practices. GeoBis has two main features 1) Crop model: Temperature based crop growth model automatically identifies growth stage of specific crop variety by analyzing air temperature and 2) Stress alert via SMS and voice message: Farmers receive the stress alert in the form of SMS and Voice Message even with their basic phones. The solution is supported by satellite image processing, the system identifies specific hotspots in crop fields that are deficient in growth. The service provides farmers with weather-sensitive seed to seed agricultural recommendations based on their crop, variety and growth stage.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, Weather forecasting
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
SMS services / Voice messaging
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Developed by mPower Social Enterprise Ltd with funding from Netherlands Space Office (NSO)
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
GeoBis has so far reached 116,000+ farmers across Bangladesh and provides 116,000+ services to them. Source: http://www.lalteergeobis.info/ Source: Developer website
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
GeoBis has resulted in 10% increase in farm income due to increased productivity and/or efficiency of farming and also improved management of agricultural land and more efficient use of seeds, water, fertilizers and pesticides. Source: http://www.lalteergeobis.info/
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