Creating scalable, engaging mobile solutions for agriculture

A study of six content services in the mNutrition Initiative portfolio

Between 2014 and 2017 the GSMA worked with six mobile network operators to support the launch and scale of agricultural services. Leveraging findings from user experience design, business intelligence, and customer feedback, the product teams developed services that have cumulatively reached more than five million registered users worldwide.

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SIX STORIES OF AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH MOBILE

Dialog Sri Lanka Govi Mithuru

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Monday 31 Jul 2017 | AgriTech |

Dialog Sri Lanka reduce farmers' chemical dependency with their highly personalised Govi Mithuru service.

Airtel Malawi M’chikumbe 212

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Monday 31 Jul 2017 | AgriTech |

Airtel Malawi's voice and text-based content service, M'chikumbe, enhances stretched government agricultural extension network.

Ooredoo Myanmar Site Pyo

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Monday 31 Jul 2017 | AgriTech |

Ooredoo Myanmar's agricultural smartphone app, Site Pyo, supports smallholders suffering the effects of climate change.

Telenor Pakistan Khushaal Zamindar

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Monday 31 Jul 2017 | AgriTech |

Telenor Pakistan's voice-based agricultural service, Khushaal Zamindar, goes viral.

Vodafone Ghana Farmer’s Club

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Monday 31 Jul 2017 | AgriTech |

Vodafone Ghana make over 100,000 new network acquisitions through their dedicated Farmer's Club SIM with voice-driven content service and call bundle.

Grameenphone Krishi Sheba

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Monday 31 Jul 2017 | AgriTech |

Grameenphone Bangladesh scale voice-driven agricultural information service GP Krishi Sheba with a traditional value-added service marketing campaign.

The AgriTech programme has produced other resources on agritech services and the wider opportunities for digital agriculture. Find them here. The GSMA AgriTech partners on this journey included frog, CABI and Firetail.

In collaboration with Frog, we developed the mAgri design toolkit – a practical guide for applying our user-centred design methodology throughout the product development cycle.

All agricultural content created under the mNutrition Initiative is available to interested parties free of charge under a creative commons licence CC-BY.

If you are interested in obtaining this content or if you want to tell us about the scale and impact of services in your region,  please contact us at [email protected]

The mNutrition Initiative was funded by UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
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