GeoKrishi
Nepal
Geokrishi (Geo: location specific, Krishi: agriculture) is an integrated agriculture technology (AgTech) developed by Pathway Technologies. Every registered farm is geotagged, enabling location-specific recommendations. The platform offers digital and financial literacy services along with tools and advisory services for about 45 crops and livestock, including tools on cost optimization, weather information, market options, and financial record-keeping along with 30 proven and curated Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approaches. It provides access to timely and context-specific advisories to individual farmers. It also provides an intelligent digital agriculture platform built to solve challenges faced by commercial and smallholder farmers. It applies a data-driven system approach to translate knowledge into actionable, timely and context-specific advisories, covering all stages of the crop value chain.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Rural Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, Weather forecasting services
Market and price data analytics
GIS/Land mapping services
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
Internet of Things / sensors
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Pathway Technologies
Primary Users
Farmers , Farmers , SMEs / agripreneurs , Value chain actors
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (widespread use nationally)
Number of users or subscribers
150K farmers; 120 rural community centers; 1000 rural service agents; 50 local government authorities;
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Geokrishi platform has five interconnected products tailored for different stakeholders in agriculture, including farmers to increaase productivity and profitability, empower extension workers, better customer support system for agro dealers, strengthening municipalities exentions service,sustainable business model of cooperatives, and market centers.
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 Government programmes, initiatives, and projects
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes