MIT Solve

Solution overview

Our Solution

Tabit Smart Farmer App & SMS Solutions

Tagline

Sending information to farmers via SMS and Smart Phone application,

Pitch us on your solution

1.To Solve farmers' knowledge, productivity, sales and communication problems.

2. Using the smartphone application and SMS system as a means of communication, information and market.

3. To integrate the farmer into the new world order, strengthen the social life in the village, reduce migration. To disseminate technology. To find 3 million in Turkey, 530 million , family farmers over world information, communications, technology and find solutions to the problems concerning productivity.

Existing solutions are not a digital platform, but a method that people should investigate with their efforts. By moving our solutions to digital environments, we are able to communicate faster, share interactive information, and deliver the right information to the right person quickly.

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What is the problem you are solving?

The world, 80% of agricultural food is produced by family farmers living in villages.

3 million in Turkey, 530 million family farmers around the world are forced to reach information and new technologies. The effects of global warming and old farming methods do not work. The farmer needs to be informed in detail about weather, wind and humidity, to have information about market prices, to meet with more product buyers, to be aware of innovation and new methods and to learn the methods to increase productivity. In the absence of all of this, farmers abandon farming and migrate.

Who are you serving?

Family farmers living in rural areas, making production decisions themselves, away from technology and innovations, with a tendency to migrate. The solution will enable them to integrate knowledge into new markets and thus strengthen them economically. It will reduce migration.

What is your solution?

The service of sending information by SMS is as follows; Daily and 5-day local weather to farmers, natural disaster warnings, disease and pest warnings of product produced by weather, market prices, agriculture ministry disclosures, grant and support news, useful tips for production, news on new farming methods.

With Smart Farmer Application; (IOS and Android) All and more detailed form of information sent by SMS. To ask agricultural Engineers with photographic questions, receiving consultancy remotely, selling their products, making social shares.

The farmer shares collected from the application to decompose in bigdata to create early alarms about disease and warnings, then match the collected photos with artificial intelligence by removing maps of harmful and disease images to share information.

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Where is your solution team headquartered?

Koçarlı, Aydın, Türkiye

Our solution's stage of development:

Pilot

More about your solution

Select one of the below:

New business model or process

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

In the existing system, farmers do not have access to early and agricultural weather. He cannot bargain by selling his products to his usual customers and does not know the market price. He is not aware of new production methods and continues production with old methods. When global warming or the market fails to cope with the competition conditions, it quits farming and migrates to cities. He works with low wages as an unskilled employee in cities. But all farmers have a featurephone or smartphone. With SMS, IOS and android application it is possible to solve information, communication and productivity problems.

Describe the core technology that your solution utilizes.

SMS system, IOS and Android application. Extracting results and reports by parsing the artificial intelligence infrastructure and big data with the data coming from the application.

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Machine Learning
Internet of Things
Social Networks

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

The current information channel of farmers is to go from the village to the public centers in provincial or district centers. When a farmer wants to know the market price of the product, he goes to the big wholesaler in the city centers to learn the situation. In order to track agricultural meteorological data, the state needs to access the meteorology website, but many farmers do not know it. They have to sell their products to a single buyer who comes to the village and cannot negotiate. In the event of a disease, the agricultural engineer should be invited to the field to consult with them or they should go. When the Ministry makes a statement, they should go to the public buildings in the provincial and district centers regarding the grant supports and look at the posters. They are in no way aware of new breeding methods and innovations in agriculture. Our solution is to facilitate access to information, to become a communication bridge and to open their products online to wider markets through SMS, IOS and Android application. The rate of smartphone usage exceeded 68% in rural areas and there are currently approximately 1.5 million farmers subscribers who receive SMS information. We will direct them to use applications and ensure that farmers who are not accessing information in rural areas continue to produce by strengthening them economically and socially. This would indirectly reduce migration.

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

Rural Residents
Low-Income
Middle-Income

In which countries do you currently operate?

Uzbekistan
Turkey

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

Uzbekistan
Turkey

How many people are you currently serving with your solution? How many will you be serving in one year? How about in five years?

Currently 1.5 million people. 2 million people a year. 3 million domestic in 5 years. 10 million farmers abroad.

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

With the increasing use of smart phones in the farmers' where the usage rate is still low, to solve the problems faster by providing interactive communication with the farmers, to provide solutions to the problems solved, to spread the solution with artificial intelligence to the areas where peer problems may be experienced.

What are the barriers that currently exist for you to accomplish your goals for the next year and for the next five years?

The lack of advanced technology knowledge and infrastructure of the target audience.

How are you planning to overcome these barriers?

With our projects (http://www.en.tabit.com.tr/Sayfa/29/Projects.aspx)

If your solution has a website, provide a link here:

http://www.en.tabit.com.tr/

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About your team

Select an option below:

Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit

If you selected Other for the organization question, please explain here.

Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit

How many people work on your solution team?

20 full-time employees are employed. Part-time we employ 5-10 employees at different times.

For how many years have you been working on your solution?

15 years

Why are you and your team best-placed to deliver this solution?

We visited the 12 thousand of the 30 thousand villages in Turkey and we have identified the problems of thousands of farmers.

We have 15 years work experience in Agricultural Informatics. The main purpose of the projects we have done so far is to improve the life and living conditions of the farmers. In order to achieve this, we will be able to succeed by living in the farmers and with our solution-oriented studies and experience. Previously we established Turkey's first agricultural webpages (2004-2019), we organized a roadshow TR Farmer Training (2009-2016), the Rural Water Awareness Training We organized (2009-2010)

With what organizations are you currently partnering, if any? How are you working with them?

Vodafone: SMS infrastructure provider SMS business model partner

Netafim: Intelligent Irrigation system integration

General Directorate of Meteorology: Providing meteorological data, news of early warnings

Anadolu Agency: Compilation of Agricultural News

Republic of Turkey Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Livestock Department of Publication; Providing agricultural information archive

Inovia Software: IOS and Android application partner

Your business model & funding

Partnership potential

Why are you applying to Solve?

It will ensure that farmers living in rural areas, trying to support their lives through agricultural production and animal husbandry, have easy access to the right information with our expert agricultural engineers. We will prevent the decrease in productivity by warning in advance against many external factors that occur instantaneously and which may damage farmers' crops. We will solve the damages of farmers' products in an interactive way. We will provide direct access to the buyer so that they can sell their products at a more affordable price. With our social initiative, we used to send such information from our web pages. We had an educational organization walking around the village. We met with 10 million people living in rural areas in 15 years. We received awards in national and international organizations and our business model of sending information to farmers via SMS was taken as an example in 6 countries. We provide information services to 1.6 million farmers by subscribing. However, our IOS and Adroid applications are very new, yet it has been several months. We've done an experiment before, but it wasn't successful because smartphones were not so common. This time we think that we will be successful by directing our SMS subscriptions.

What types of connections and partnerships would be most catalytic for your solution?

Technology
Distribution

If you selected Other, please explain here.

Technology

Distribution

With what organizations would you like to partner, and how would you like to partner with them?

We ask for support from Google to provide services in the rural area through big data. We ask Facebook for support in using technology and providing content services in rural areas.

If you would like to apply for the AI Innovations Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If you are not already using AI in your solution, explain why it is necessary for your solution to be successful and how you plan to incorporate it.