"Dream, Dream, Dream! Conduct these dreams into thoughts, and then transform them into action."
- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"Dream, Dream, Dream! Conduct these dreams into thoughts, and then transform them into action."
- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
16 May 2017
When we think about mobile application, most of the times we have always taken granted the city people, but here’s an application that thinks about the farmers. This data application developed helps the farmers to decide the best time to sell their produce in face of high fluctuation in crop prices.
This app has won the two-day long hackathon 'ICT4D Data Jam, which was held at ICRISAT's ihub, Hyderabad on May 12. While data entrepreneurs, data analysts, IT professionals and academics competed to find solutions on how technology can better address the development challenges, the winning team, Time2Sell developed a data-based innovation completed preliminary development of a price prediction app.
This app aims to help the farmer decide when to sell. Also, customized instalment sales plans for farmers based on their existing loans, interests, quantity of crop are among the key features. The second place was secured by team AgriBarT, who developed a dynamic group formation app that enables collective bargaining for small scale farmers.
The team built a prototype to identify farmers with similar purchase requirements, demographics, geographies and historical cropping patterns. The app will empower farmers to gain benefits through bulk ordering in the shared economy.
