Marprice: a system for farmers in rural
Africa to retrieve the latest market prices
Allard Oelen, Mathijs Oggel, Part of the ICT4D 2018
Nip van Wees, Tom Tol 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.
Current situation
Marprice situation
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Farmer calls Marprice to Pawpaw price is
request the price of pawpaw provided via voice
Farmer wants to know Market leader tells the
the price of pawpaw currect pawpaw price
Solution: Marprice
Marprice, provides the farmer an
Mar
Front-end
interface (via either voice or the
Back-end
web) to retrieve the latest market
prices. Market leaders can keep
Price
the prices up-to-date via a web
interface. Marprice runs on the Kasadaka platform
(using a Raspberry Pi and GSM dongle). The whole
Market leader updates the
system can run without internet connection. product prices in web interface
1) Market leader web
interface
2) Market leader updates
product price
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Try the online
market yourself
1. a.b.oelen@student.vu.nl 2. m.t.oggel@student.vu.nl 3. n.v.wees@student.vu.nl 4. a.j.m.tol@student.vu.nl