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