Information Collection Systems (ICS): Sample Data, Agriculture Commodity Prices

The essential data of agriculture marketing information are price data. Government to decide on the policies on production, export, import, price support need more accurate and faster knowledge of agriculture marketing information regular basis. Marketing information plays a vital role in the functioning of the whole market, by regulating the competitive marketing process. Marketing information helps farmers make profitable decisions in the short term what price to expect and decide what to produce. Making timely and unbiased information available to the farmers help them, in bargaining with the traders for a fair price for their crops. The aim of proposed information collection system is to provide very fast, timely, reliable and up to date agriculture commodity prices collection all over the country on regular basis through mobile phone service. All the information will be stored in the database automatically. Stakeholder can get marketing information from currently stored price data what they need through mobile phone technology.

Contact information: Yousuf M Islam, PhD, Managing Director, Soft-Ed Limited.