Smart Krishi
Nepal
SmartKrishi Nepal empowers farmers with knowledge and tools to improve their agricultural practices. Its mobile app and web-based services have made it an invaluable resource for farmers, helping them to access package of practises of agriculture and livestock. Smart Krishi has already been downloaded about 100k times. More than 2k have given the review and the app is available for both Android and iOS platforms. The app provides information about livestock, agriculture, and agricultural insurance including its procedure as well. Smart Krishi has incorporated a wide range of information from cereal crop production to vegetable cultivation, cash crops, fruit crops as well as non-timber forest products. Furthermore, pest management of various crops, commercial goat farming, boar goat farming, buffalo and cow rearing, fish production technologies are also available in detail. There is a platform for the interaction of farmers with experts. Experienced farmers can connect with each other and share their problems, needs, and experiences through “Krishak Sanjal”. It is a web network where farmers can get any required information about training programs going to be held by some organization, agriculture credit information, marketing and so on. They also provide weather forecasting and provide a daily update of the agro market price from 15 cities of Nepal.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, Pest and disease management, Weather forecasting services
Market and price data analytics
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Social media platforms
DS supplier-user category
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
ICT startup
Name of supplier/developer
Smart Krishi P. Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , SMEs / agripreneurs , Value chain actors
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (widespread use nationally)
Number of users or subscribers
225K farmers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
SmartKrishi Nepal plays a vital role in increasing awerness on production practises and farm management solution that enhances overall farm productivity, contributing to food security and economic growth in the region.
Digital Solution Geographic scope
National
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