Marprice: a system for farmers in rural Africa to retrieve the latest market prices Allard Oelen a.b.oelen@student.vu.nl Mathijs Oggel m.t.oggel@student.vu.nl Nip van Wees n.v.wees@student.vu.nl Tom Tol a.j.m.tol@student.vu.nl -

Part of the ICT4D 2018 course at VU Amsterdam Problem Farmers in rural Ghana are dependent on a market leader in order to retrieve the latest market prices. The farmers need to physically meet the market leader which is time consuming and not accurate.

 Front-end Back-end Marprice situation

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Farmer calls Marprice to

request the price of pawpaw

 Pawpaw price is provided via voice Market leader updates the

product prices in web interface

1) Market leader web interface 2) Market leader updates product price Current situation

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Farmer wants to know the price of pawpaw Market leader tells the

currect pawpaw price Marprice, provides the farmer an interface (via either voice or the web) to retrieve the latest market prices. Market leaders can keep the prices up-to-date via a web interface. Marprice runs on the Kasadaka platform (using a Raspberry Pi and GSM dongle). The whole system can run without internet connection.