Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Connect (JA Connect)
Japan
Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Connect (JA Connect) is a mobile app based platform offering farm advisory services. It's a realtime advisory such as sudden weather changes which farmers can access through their smart phones remotely. The platform offers pricing-based solutions to farmers and allows them to receive farming-related information that they have received by fax on their smartphones or tablets. The data can be shared or transferred via the app. The mobile application is available on iOS and Android platforms.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
Kamakura Industries Co., Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Kamakura City
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