Jazz BaKhabar Kissan (جازباخبرکسان ) has been specifically designed and dedicated for farmers. It aims to assist them in their journey towards a better farming while boosting their yields. It includes 100+ commodities providing farmers with up-to-date agricultural information and modern technologies. It is a small application in terms of memory with an easy user interface available in different Pakistani languages. It provides with productive agriculture content and information at every stage of the crop growth.
Categories:
Agriculture News:
It provides latest agriculture news on daily basis and thus enriches and enhances the knowledge of farmers. Through this section, farmers are not only updated about the current news and events, but it also helps in minimizing farming risks by spreading necessary information alerts.
Crops:
This section includes production technologies for different crops, fruits, vegetables and fodder crops. It provides basic information to farmers about soil preparation, planting methods, fertilization, irrigation and management practices for getting the best possible production.
Livestock:
This section includes all the information regarding livestock rearing, breeding and various management practices connected with domesticated animals in order to produce different commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
Weather:
This provides with weather forecast based on user location. Based on this information, farmers can plan time for sowing, protection, harvesting, and other field activities in order to avoid negative weather effects and yield losses. A farmer hence is able to adapt the given situation and take additional farm management practices to minimize crop losses.
Mandi Rate:
It provides Mandi rate of different districts. This helps the farmers know the prices of agricultural commodities in various markets across the country and furthermore helping them set the best price for their commodities. This application provides an interface to view Mandi rates which helps both the buyer and the seller to set a price for the commodities
Photo Analysis:
This feature is very useful for the farmers who cannot comprehend their problem. Through photo analysis interface, farmers are able to share the problem via picture, video, voice recording and text message for getting solutions. Farmers can easily chat with agriculture experts and discuss their problems
Videos:
This section provides a wide range of videos. These videos relate to different agricultural practices, new technologies and successful farming. It comprises informative videos about production technologies and management techniques with regards to maximum crops, fruits, vegetables, fodder crops. It is one of the best ways for farmers to learn through training videos and implement best practices and to bring out the best.
Audios:
Farmers who are illiterate can acquire information via audios. Production technologies and different management practices are recorded in different local languages. This serves as a mean for effective transfer of information and enables them to apply the knowledge to improve their farming output.
Modern Technologies:
This section comprises information regarding different modern technologies, for developing the agricultural industry. It includes best management practices for improvement of agriculture information, modern techniques of farming, guidelines for soil preparation, weeds eradication, and prevention of diseases, cultivation, growing off-season crops in controlled atmosphere, water and temperature management.
Farm to Home:
It is a platform whose primary objective is to increase the profitability of the farmer and increasing the quality standard of the product for the consumer at a reasonable price. This saves the farmer money and it cuts out mediators who tend to buy low from farmers and sell high to end consumers.