About this app

Farm DSS is a mobile application platform which provides agriculture knowledge in the simplest and practical way so that farmers can understand well and adopt good agriculture practices for minimizing the cost of production and residue free production of agri commodities. It also integrates farmers with agri input suppliers, Agri commodity buyers, Agri service providers and consultants. Main intention behind this integration is farmer can get quality inputs, maximum buyers can approach him to procure his commodity and improve the quality of services given to farmers.

1.Knowledge Bank is a very unique feature that consists of detailed practical base knowledge of major crops. It consists of soil selection, selection of planting material, pest and disease management, plant nutrition management to harvesting. This knowledge bank contents text, images, and videos so farmer can learn as per his convince. This knowledge bank is updated according to new inventions/technologies. This is the major difference between a copy of a printed book and this knowledge bank. Information provided in Knowledge Bank will help to farmers to take wise decision to increase the profitability in farming.

2.The Webinar - Complete video guide of Pomegranate Cultivation will be useful to empower and educate the farming community without travelling long distance.

3.Schedule is the most important feature that we will provide weekly schedules of Irrigation, fertigation, agronomical practices and crop protection. It will help farmer to reduce the unwanted cost of crop protection and fertilizer products. With the help of this feature pesticide residue-free production of farm produce is possible for the production of healthy food for the society.

4.Another quality feature of this application is Ask Advise. It is a tool which farmers can use to raise any query related to pest, disease, nutrient management, irrigation schedule or any cultural practice to be adopted in their farm. Farmers can ask any advise by sending photographs of their plant parts or sending the audio recordings or text messages for availing the immediate solutions to their problems. They will get instant and precise advisories to solve their on field problems.

5.BTGore Youtube channel is one more effective and unique audio visual feature which farmers can see every day in this application. All important videos related to agriculture will be available on a single platform and there is no need to search videos of this channel on Youtube. This will save valuable time of the farmers.

6. Service Providers feature of this application gives the information about agri input dealers, tractor and farm implement dealers, fruit crop and vegetable nurseries as well as other rental service providers of spray pumps, farm tools, electricians, labours, crates. Farmers can avail any of these services through this feature.

7.Integration of buyers and traders of APMC markets is done through Market Rate feature of Farm DSS. It will solve the problem of needy buyers to get farm produce from the farmers as well as farmers will also get different buyers form distant market and both will be benefited.

8.All important and updated news related to agriculture will be available on Agri News feature. It will be useful for the farmers to take proper decision on the basis of updated and recent information available in Agri News feature.

9.Through Crop Production Forecast feature, proper information will be available regarding total quantity of crop production during coming season and it is useful both for the farmers as well as buyers and accordingly they will act to perform their activities related to sale of purchase of produce.

New features

Bug fixes and new features and improvements added.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.