ICT for Agricultural development

Angelique UWIMANAMIS specialist

MINAGRI

AMIS Agricultural Management

Information system Contain information relation to:

◦ Agricultural extension material,

◦ training materials ,◦ Promotion material◦ Report and survey, ◦ policy and strategy,◦ Agricultural statistics ◦ Maps◦ yellow pages and white

pages

Web application Launched in June,2009

BackgroundEsoko. Market price information

system Made of 2 phases, Phase I completed in project preparation of

phase II Provide the latest

agricultural and related commodity prices at all major markets in Rwanda

Web and mobile (SMS and IVR) application

Igiciro(space) market name (space) commodity name -7656

eSOKO phase I launched in January 2010.

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eSOKO Technology Overview

Flexible, configurable platform.

Supports many use cases. Hosted, managed service. Web services integration

with other systems.

Multi-channel access. Interactive

communication. Data collection. Real-time data analysis &

decision support.

System Dashboards

Smartphone

SMS

IVR PC Client

Web

email

Voxiva Platform

AMIS Linkage of the farmers , farmers

organisation and cooperative to the market through yellow pages

Facilate Agricultural stakeholders in the best practice of modernized agriculture and livestock

Develop the beneficiaries by informing them ( information is the root of development)

Facilitate the researchers to be informed on what is going on.

Reduce duplications of some activities and research in agricultural sector

Direct Agricultural business.

Impact

Esoko Reduce the costs and stabilize the prices of the basic foodstuffssensitize producers to invest in new products that can generate more revenuesfacilitate the access to the foodstuffs by the population at a fair pricecontribute to stability of prices at reasonable levels by encouraging greater competition  Explain the strategy for scaling up e-soko and sustainability.

esoko : The whole country

◦ 50 markets◦ 87 commodities◦ Neibourhood countries

AMIS: The whole country and abroad

Intervention zone

AMIS: Between 9123 and 2107 visits per week

from its launch. 131 registered cooperatives (Yellow

pages )have been invited in different training/meetings for their capacity buildings

30 registered yellow pages get the market of their products from AMIS yellow pages visitors

Those are the numbers we got from Feedback provided by the benefiting organisation may be there others who did not communicate it.

Feedback are provided through email and mobile phone channel

Usability and impact measurement

ESOKO:

From its launch up to now :

60,865 people used sms

June to Dec-09 the sms are

7,431 =12.2%

Jan –Dec 2010 the sms are

19862=32.6%

Jan- October 2011 the sms

are 33,572= 55.2%

9577 people using web   

Provide the feedback through

different channels

AMIS: Farmers

Farmers organisation

Extension workers

Partners (local and international)

Researchers

Students

Clients

eSoko:

Ministry of Trade Rwanda public procurement

authority(RPPA) The project for increasing crop

production/JICA Farm Concern International Fewsnet National Institute of Statistics /GDP

and EICV World Food Program use eSoko to

negotiate price with farmers Farmers and farmers organisation

like Imbaraga and others.

Business Model

AMIS: Developed by MINAGRI

in Partnership with Belgium Gor through BTC

Running by MINAGRI – CICA

Free of charger service use

Uses the government budget (all costs are covered by MINAGRI)

eSoko: Developed by MINAGRI

in partnership with World Bank trough eRwanda Project/RDB

Running by MINAGRI To use it cost you an

sms cost Use the budget of

MINAGRI (all costs are covered by MINAGRI)

Multilingual ( Kinyarwanda, Swahili and English):

◦ Market Price(Minimum, Model and Maximum)

◦ Crop advisory as per the stage of the crop cycle

◦ Weather or Climate changes user - friendly online interface online market intermediation/ trading platform :

◦ Facilitating market linkage between small holder farmers, cooperatives , traders and the processing industries.

Mobile phone based payment gateway (like m-pesa in kenya - in paying the farmers in villages)

Informal cross border trade data collection using J2ME Application Monitoring/ Surveillance of price trends will be enhanced Enhancement of the analytics capabilities; Reports Enhancements, System User monitoring report And soon.

eSoko Phase II

Working relations

AMIS & eSoko We are encouraging whoever The channel is the Ministry of

Agriculture and Animal Resources- MINAGRI

Or

Agricultural Information and Communication Centre - MINAGRI

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.