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mKisan portal
Monitoring SMS
User can monitor all the SMS sent by other members
Rating & resending an SMS
Rating for your SMS
Unsubscribe SMS to a number
Queries Received
Deregister yourself
You need to De-register yourself in case of transfer from post/retirement/
resignation because one designation and location has been tied to only one user.
Search SMS
Push SMS – Search SMS Database
mKisan Dash Board
Pull SMS – Structures & Codes
To extract information from database by sending SMS in a
particular format
Voice based Advisories
– Surveys indicated that many farmers are
interested in Voice based advisories.
– Supports almost all voice formats (.wav,
.mp3,.mp4,.amr,.m4a,.aac,.flac )
– Expert can record advisory and upload it on web
to send to farmers through SMS Portal.
– Thus illiterate and semi literate farmers can also
get the expert advisories
– Work going on for Text to Speech Conversion
without Internet
IVRS
IVRS in Agriculture
IVRS to get feedback of farmers regarding the advisories from experts and
quality of information given to them by KCC agents.
We are having IVRS in all 12 Indian languages.
A farmer can rate the advisory or answer given by KCC agent on the scale
of 1 to 5.
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)
Enables to access database & info on web and
also to carry out data entry in web based apps without
internet on handset
THE USSD MAGIC…
Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) - A
rarely used technology as old as mobile telephony itself
USSD is interactive text messaging. mKisan has catalysed
demand
Remote location data entry and query on databases by
text messaging
Fixed monthly charges @ Rs. 5 – Centralised Payment
Mandi price data entry, choice of right machine, seed
availability, agromet advisory Android Apps in pipeline
Dial *491*105*2# from a Registered
Mobile
Buyer Seller Platform
Buyer Seller Coordination
Buyer
Registration &
Approval
Selection of
Area to buy
commodities
Price offered
for selected
commodities
Location
of
Farmers
Details of interested buyers along with their offered
price is sent to farmers
Ksewa – Universal Plugin
From stand alone or web applications to integrate
with SMS.
Soil Health Card, Market Information, Subsidy
Information,Dealer Licensing etc.
Earlier, the report was either on the internet or as
a printed document.
> 4 mobile phones per farm family, SMS is the way.
Interface to send the report of these services on the
mobile phone of the farmers with a sender id KRISHI
Mobile Apps