Bakhabar Kissan
Pakistan
A leading agri-tech in Pakistan, BaKhabar Kissan (BKK) takes a holistic approach to enable farmers make data driven decisions. They cater both production and market/sales related issues that exist in the Agri value chain. BKK not only provide crop, livestock, weather, mandi rates, remote sensing based advisory to farmers, but also connect them to consumers and business. Every farmer has his/her own journey on BKK, based on their profile (location/crop etc.). It's available in 7 languages and through it's web portal, 24/7 call center/SMS/IVR and mobile apps providing major services such as Weather Advisory; Livestock Advisory; Advisory Modern Technologies; Disaster Management; Content (Written, Audio, Video); Advisory Inputs / Machinery; Agri Commerce; and Market/Mandi Rates and price analytics.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, Weather forecasting services
Market and price data analytics
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
Social media platforms
Call center services
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Switch Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Value chain actors , SMEs / agripreneurs
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
9.2 million subscribers out of which 1 million are active users. 117,000 subscribers on their Youtube channel with more than 4.9 million views. 500 million advisory SMSs per month. 3.5 million minutes of advisory via their call center
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Estimated 15% average increase in yield for farmers using and adopting their advisory
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Pakistan
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