Krishi Mitra

SMS notifications

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:32:06 +0000

We have launched the SMS notification module. Currently Marathi and English messages have been tested. Since these are promotional messages they can be sent only between 9AM and 9PAM as per TRAI guideline.

User guide is available here

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Waghad Project rabi season data for year 2011-12

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:39:51 +0000

We have got consolidated data of Waghad Project for rabi season.

The total revenue is approximately 245 Crore Rs.

For complete information on area of cultivation, crops and harvest months download the excel file. Click here to download.

Thanks to Bharat Bhau and Bandekar Uncle for making this data available in the right time.
Raviraj will explore further opportunities and see how we can do some advance planning for marketing the produce.

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Training on Crop Data Collection

admin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:45:51 +0000

We did a training session at Nashik on crop and farmer data collection using tablet PC.
Hari and Ratan picked up the skills very fast and now they can start using the tablet to collect field data for Rabi season.

To view the data follow these steps.
1. Go to http://data.krishimitra.org/odk
2. wait for few seconds for page to redirect.
3. click on the first option “sign in with Aggregate Passwrod”.
4.enter user name “guest”
5. enter password “welcome”

Once you are successfully logged in
to see bar/pie charts, click on the “Visualize” button.
to save the data to excel sheet click “export” button.

One of the concerns was theft of tablet while using outdoor. As these are expensive its quite justified. we can use tablets for now and in future we will use Android phones.

Next Steps:
1. Participants to start collecting rabi crop data.

2.Bhart Bhau to send us Waghad’s project level crop planning data in a weeks time. We will put the data on krishimitra.org web site.

Our sincere thanks to Belsare Sir for providing us the venue and arranging food.

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Technology development road map

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:16:05 +0000

Our technology development road map is out now. you can download it from here

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Call for Volunteers

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:18:37 +0000

This is primarily a community project and we need your participation. We have number of tasks at hand right from helping people to use latest gizmos to build cool apps using some of the coolest technologies. Get your hands dirty with Android apps, Amazon EC2, CouchDB and Open Data Kit. If you are a designer help us create awesome eBooks.
Here is your chance to build something useful while having fun.

interested ? shoot a mail to Raviraj Patil

#	Task	Skills	No. Of Volunteers	Duration (Weeks)
1.	Train Abinav Farmer club employees to use Android Tablet. Configure android tablet and solve technical issues. Train users to collect data Requires traveling to Abinav Farmers Club, Hinjewadi, Pune.	Smart phone users. Preferably Android	2	4
2	eBook creation in ePub format Collect the source documents, images, forms and create eBooks on various subjects like crop insurance, loans, fertilizers, seeds etc No traveling involved.	Image and document editing skills. Use any ePub editor	2	10
3	Install and customize Open Data Kit. Web Application Development	Java/Python/MySQL/Linux	2	10
4.	Android Application development	Java/ Android SDK	1	10

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Data Collection with Tablet at Waghad Project

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:15:37 +0000

We will be using Open Data Kit on Android Tablets to collect Water User Associations (WUA) data and Waghad Dam’s canal data during this rabbi season. Every day discharge from Waghad dam main canal and live storage level is communicated to 3 people at project level WUA. Each of total 25 WUAs take reading of minor canal 4 times a day. We will be capturing this data at Project Level WUA.

All the captured data will be immediately available online. Once everyone is familiar with this system we can build SMS alerts, data analysis, reporting applications.

Update: We have decided to abort WUA data collection to focus on crop data collection. With limited resource and people we have to do the most important things first.

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First steps

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:25:16 +0000

We met at Yuva Mitra’s Sinnar campus to decide the scope and approach of the project. With the limited resources at hand the task ahead seems gigantic. We will be doing small experiments and learn from them, one step at a time.
We wanted to evaluate netbooks and tablets for the field data collection. Help came in time, folks from OpenGear Networks have donated us a Acer Netbook. We will be using the netbook for on field data collection starting this rabbi season. This will help us in understanding user experience and get started immediately.

Thanks Ganesh and Narayan.

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