Supporting the Procurement and Accounting of Areca-nut Farming


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Creator/Artist: Roopa Narayan Sahoo

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Anirudha Joshi


Detailed Description

The project proposes an interactive voice response (IVR) system for the Areca nut farming community of Alibag Taluka Maharashtra (India). Following extensive discussions with the ATS and the 10 farmers interviewed, it was observed that ATS could benefit with a system that provides adequate and timely information to support scattered, barely literate areca nut farmers. It would help the areca- nut farmer in bridging the digital gap by bringing the benefits of the information technology through a voice driven system over an ordinary phone call. The main goal of this project is improving the interaction between the ATS and the farmers, in the exchange of information in various stages of cultivation, procurement and processing of areca nut so as to improve the collaboration between the farmers and ATS, minimize risk, and to maximize economic and profit driven growth. The final concept ATS IVR system is a voice driven mobile base application where the framers can get essentials information about areca nut farming, marker price as well as sharing of knowledge with other farmers and experts. Also farmer can give information about his location and amount of harvest with submission date ready for submission to cooperative society workers. Throughout this project we developed concepts that lead to design an interactive voice response (IVR) system which would improve existing practices that are intrinsic to the current areca nut farming production cycle and also some of coherent ideas can be extended for similar kind of farming activities in the agriculture domain and beyond.