Grameen Intel’s farming software to empower rice farmers in Cambodia

16 March  2014, Dhaka:  World’s first IT social business company Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd. (GISB) has recently organized an expert training session in Cambodia with the Project for Agriculture Development and Economic Empowerment (PADEE), a program funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Cambodia.

Other partners of the event were Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), SNV - Netherlands Development Organization, and iDE Cambodia.

The session was designed towards introducing information and communication technology (ICT) as a promising way to

increase rice productivity to become a net exporter, highlighting importance of rice experts, knowledge based agro expert system and the  usage of ICT for enabling rural development.

Dr. Pen Vuth, Deputy Secretary General of General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA), kicked off the four day long training session for Cambodia’s agriculture experts on the 10th March at the GDA premises in Cambodia.

Pavel Hoq -Chief Operating Officer, Srinivas Garudachar - Director, Strategic Business Development, Saqif Nayeem Khan - Project Officer of Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd. (GISB) along with other officials of IFAD, MAFF, SNV and iDE were present at the recently held expert sessions in Cambodia.

Pavel Hoq -Chief Operating Officer of GISB said, “Grameen Intel aims to provide farmers with access to agriculture related recommendations through its software solutions. These recommendations can help them take better decisions about their crops and increase their yield as well as their income potential. ”

Director General GDA, MAFF- Mr. Khan Rithykun was extremely supportive of the event and showed keen interest to know more about such initiatives of Grameen Intel. He sees this program scaling across the country to upcoming ASPIRE program and others; and not just limited to rice, but other cereal, vegetables and fruits.

In Cambodia Grameen Intel’s farming software applications will focus on farmers engaged in rice production. Farmers can also get benefit from seed selections, pesticide recommendations and marketing pricing information from wide ranges of unique software applications of the company.

It may be mentioned that Grameen Intel offers a range of revolutionary agricultural software applications to cater modernized scientific farming and enable farmers to achieve sustainable high yield on their crops. These software applications have already been deployed in different projects in countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Macedonia.

These software applications can provide all kinds of agriculture related suggestions in a variety of categories including for seed selection and recommendation by ānkur software, soil nutrient analysis and fertilizer recommendation by mrittikā, crop protection recommendation protikār and direct market or buyer information to farmers by vistār software. The combination of all these applications is believed to be revolutionary in crop production.

These software applications are fully designed and developed by product development team of Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd. in Bangladesh.

Photo caption:  Top Officials of Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd. can be seen along with others at a field visit in Cambodia on the last day of expert training session.