Comparative Study of Android-Based M-Apps for Farmers

Kaur, Sukhpreet; Dhindsa, Kanwalvir Singh

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5520-1_17

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“…Smartphone technologies have also been shown to hold great potential for economic interventions given affordances absent in feature phones [6,26,86]. A plethora of Android-based agriculture applications in India showcase the benefits of a GUI, sensors, bigger screens, increased processing, and more [35,50], which motivate expanding the limited research on direct use of smartphones for agricultural interventions in more rural developing regions such as Tanzania. One extant app is Ugani Kiganjani, a simple and affordable mobile and web-based digital agricultural extension service available for weather, crop calendars, nutrition, livestock and fishery sub-sectors in Tanzania, created and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [27].…”

Section: Technologies For Agricultural Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

eKichabi v2: Designing and Scaling a Dual-Platform Agricultural Technology in Rural Tanzania

Raghunath,

Metzger,

Easton

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Although farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are accessing feature phones and smartphones at historically high rates, they face challenges finding a robust network of agricultural contacts. With collaborators, we conduct a quantitative survey of 1014 agricultural households in Kagera, Tanzania to characterize technology access, use, and comfort levels in the region. Recognizing the paucity of research on dual-platform technologies that cater to both feature phone and smartphone users, we develop and deploy eKichabi v2, a searchable directory of 9833 agriculture-related enterprises accessible via a USSD application and an Android application. To bridge the gap in affordances between the two applications, we conduct a mixed methods pilot leveraging mobile money agents as intermediators for our USSD application's users. Through our investigations, we identify the advantages, obstacles, and critical considerations in the design, implementation, and scalability of agricultural information systems tailored to both feature phone and

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Section: Technologies For Agricultural Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%