AgriCentral is a technology-based agriculture app to help Indian farmers make better decisions in their farming business to increase profitability.
It harnesses state of the art technologies like Global positioning, satellite imagery, big data analytics, machine learning and image analytics to usher the farmers into the era of digital farming.
Absolutely free of cost, this new and enhanced app has the following key features:.
• Farm Voice: It’s a place to interact with progressive farmers and Agri experts across the country for resolution of your queries. You can ask questions about your crop, learn about new farming techniques, showcase your success stories and discuss on any topic related to agriculture.
• Crop Care: It leverages image identification and symptom-based diagnosis to help you understand which pest/disease has attacked your crop. In a few simple steps you get an expert solution to protect or cure your crop along with suggestions on the most cost-effective chemicals with right dosage.
• Crop Plan: Just put your date of sowing and type of cultivation and Crop Plan gives you a personalized calendar of activities for getting higher yield at lower cost. Here too, you get to know most reputed brands of fertilizers, pesticides, bio-agents and other agri chemicals
• Market View: With over 15,000 price-points AgriCentral has the biggest collection of daily prices of your crops. We source fresh market prices from authentic government sources like Agmarknet and directly from local markets. Market view lets you see the prices of your crops in your nearest markets as well as markets across India. You can see market trends of your crops and decide when and where to sell your produce.
• Weather: The weather section gives you 15 days’ forecast on key parameters to plan your farm activities and save the crop from losses.
• Profile: You can auto-calculate your farm size and mark the boundaries of your farm for geofencing it on the map. Now create an attractive business card with information on you crops, farm size and area to share with your friends and family.
• AgriSense: This is an exclusive feature for the farmers who’re nominated by their farmer groups like FPOs, Agri-input dealers and produce aggregators. You can communicate with your group managers and buy Agri-inputs. If you’d like to explore this feature, please ask your FPO/co-operative/dealer to get in touch with AgriCentral team.
• Bulletin: Stay updated with local, national and global developments in Agribusiness. Schemes section tells you about government schemes that you can benefit from and advises you on how to avail the same.