Transcript MINAGRI - ICT for Agricultural development

Angelique UWIMANA
MIS specialist
MINAGRI
AMIS
Esoko.
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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
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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
eSOKO Technology Overview
email
Smartphone
Voxiva
Platform
SMS
IVR
 Multi-channel access.
 Interactive
communication.
 Data collection.
 Real-time data analysis &
decision support.
Web
System
Dashboards
PC Client
 Flexible, configurable
platform.
 Supports many use cases.
 Hosted, managed service.
 Web services integration
with other systems.
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.
Esoko
 Reduce the costs and stabilize the
prices of the basic foodstuffs
sensitize producers to invest in new
products that can generate more
revenues
facilitate the access to the
foodstuffs by the population at a fair
price
contribute 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
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
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:
eSoko:
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Farmers
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Farmers organisation
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Extension workers
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Partners (local and international)
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Researchers
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Students
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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.
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)
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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.
AMIS & eSoko
 We are encouraging whoever
 The channel is the Ministry of
Agriculture and Animal ResourcesMINAGRI
Or
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Agricultural Information and
Communication Centre - MINAGRI
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.
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