Makara is a predictive model based application that integrates climate and price movements and allows farmers to reduce their financial risk and ensure they have a sustainable livelihood.
Ultimately Makara is intended to be an end-to-end solution for all farmer needs. The application provides a platform for farmers to keep an account of their farm inputs and track their management activities on a farm calendar. It also customized best practice recommendations to the farmer.
A farmer can give the precise location of their farm to make sure location specific climate and market information is used for the recommendations.
The application understands the specifics of the farmer’s needs with information such as the size of their plot, type of soil, irrigation technology, and the crops planned to be sown under mixed or inter-cropping designs.
Makara communicates the forecast for a farmer’s yield (for each crop), income and profit (for each crop and also overall) via user-friendly audio-visual communication. It also provides best practice recommendations for key farm practices via calendar and journal views.
The farmer can enter detailed information for each crop and the application will maintain tabulated and comprehensive accounts of each plot for each cropping season. These inputs will be automatically incorporated in the profit recommendations.
The crop calendar keeps an account of various best management practices that are suggested to reduce the risks of low-yield and incomes for different crops. Within this calendar, each farmer can maintain their own journals where they can record the management actions that they have completed, and those that remain.
