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e-RNR Crop Advisory

Bhutan

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Developed jointly by jointly developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan and Sunrise Computer Software Pvt. Ltd, India, the e-RNR Crop Advisory is a mobile app targeted to help our youths to start farming and urban dwellers take up kitchen gardening. It's a repository of instructions on agricultural practices and instructions on how to grow particular crops and general agricultural practices. It also has links to weather forecasts and agriculture related news. The information is shared through text, pictorial and video messages. The app provides technical-know-how on growing various crops starting from nursery management to harvesting. It also provides video tutorials with farming tips, displayes crop calendars with information on planting, sowing and harvesting regarding various agro-ecological zones. The app also has links to various agriculture commodities market price information.

Digital Solution (DS) Category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Digital Solution Type (sub-category)

Farm advisory services, Weather forecasting

Market and price data analytics

Delivery type (format)

Mobile app

SMS services / Voice messaging

DS supplier-user category

Government to business

Government to government

Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)

Multi-partners

Name of supplier/developer

Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan#Sunrise Computer Software Pvt. Ltd, Pune, India

Primary Users

Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Traders , Extension agents

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

All over Bhutan

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)

Main DS webpage