Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2023 Champion

AgroSpace Platform


IT Tools for Agriculture

Description

The purpose of the Platform: Small agricultural producers and specialists have free access to verified information for business development, sectors and regions. The Interface of the Platform has four languages: English, Kyrgyz, Russian and Tajik languages. Results achieved: Operating Platform for more than 7 years; 19 operating mobile applications with English, Kyrgyz, Russian and Tajik languages, https://apps.agroinform.asia/en/index.html , https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Agroinform.TJ&hl=en ; Electronic library , https://kitob.agroinform.asia/en and YouTube channel (6 240 subscribers) with regional electronic and video materials, https://www.youtube.com/agroinformtj ; E-Trade board for purchase and sale of agricultural products and services, http://trade.agroinform.asia/ and retail market prices for agricultural products, https://prices.agroinform.asia/en; Electronic agricultural maps awarded by EEC, ITU-FAO, FAO, https://maps.agroinform.asia/cultivated-area/krg/en?crop=10&year=2020 ; Distant consulting system linking business to consultant and training services via video communication on payable base. More than a million users from different countries. Impact on users: Access to expert-verified information; Possibility of direct communication with specialists; Reduction of production and market risks; Effective planning of business, sector and region development.

Project website

https://agro-asia.com


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C9. Media 2023
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Coverage
  • Kyrgyzstan

Status

Ongoing

Start date

January 2015

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • The poor
  • Remote and rural communities

Replicability

Two countries - Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan - are already presented in the AgroSpace platform. Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan are presented in the E-Maps tool. For example, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Belarusian, Russian and Serbian companies are presented in the mobile applications. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are presented in the Retail Market Prices for agricultural products.


Sustainability

The Platform has being operational for 7 years, increasing number of the users. NO ANY DONOR or STATE organizations provides any funds for operational of the Platform since the beginning. A few donors invested small funds sharing with the partners a development IT tools - 9 out of 19 mobile applications, E-Trade board. No any donor's funds for the maintenance, promotion and further development of the IT tools presented in the AgroSpace Platform. The partners earns money on the provision of consultancy services and specific agricultural researches and invest the income in the future development of the AgroSpace.


WSIS values promotion

The AgroSpace Platform aims at leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development, particularly oriented at small-scale agricultural producers and businesses that do not have access to necessary information and services for making efficient business decision, reducing production and market risks.


Entity name

AgroInformAsia

Entity country—type

Kyrgyzstan Private Sector

Entity website

https://agro-asia.com/en

Partners

Neksigol Navovar LLC, Mr. Bakhtiyour Bahriddinov, 4/48, Ismoili Somoni str., 735700, Khujand, Tajikistan +992 92 705 5684 info@navovar.com, navovar.com. PO Neksigol Mushovir, Ms. Makhinahon Suleimanova. 2, B. Boboeva str., 735700, Khujand, Tajikistan, +992 92 824 2424, mushovir@neksigol.tj