Our Advantages

Ikisan is a pioneer in the field of leveraging the internet and IT technologies in the field of agriculture.
Ikisan's portal www.Ikisan.com is the foremost among the agri portals to address the various needs of the agriculture sector.
Ikisan has an integrated approach that offers Total Solutions to farmers.
Ikisan has developed both on- line and off-line approaches keeping in view the ground realities of connectivity.
Ikisan has developed innovative interactive models to enable even persons of limited literacy to diagnose problems relating to their crops and arrive at suitable solutions.
Ikisan has expertise in conceiving, designing and implementing turn-key projects. A project from Technology Mission for Cotton, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India was implemented along with ECIL. The project is for developing cotton software for the benefit of farmers, installing and operating the software through computers and touch-screen kiosks in 250 agricultural market yards spread over 10 cotton growing states in India.
Ikisan has proven experience in developing subscription based farmer service network of kiosks.
Ikisan, by leveraging on its domain experience can take up feasibility study reports for agro products and processing industries / exports.
Ikisan undertakes end to end communication services in the area of farm extension services on a turn-key basis.
Ikisan entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to partner in the Rural E-Seva Project which envisages establishment of around 6,000 information kiosks in rural areas of the state for purposes of e-governance and information dissemination.
Ikisan was selected by UNCTAD as Tier II Partner for the project "Strategies on Preparedness for Trade and Globalisation in India".
Ikisan has the strengths to undertake specialized studies / consultancy assignments in the field of agriculture across the value chain from farms to markets (domestic and export) including GIS utilization.
Ikisan is a partner in the consortium project on rural livelihoods by Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) under National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP).
Ikisan is executing ITES project for Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board.
Computerisation of Regulated Markets in Tamil Nadu is taken up by Ikisan.
Agri-Business Management Programme is jointly offered by Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur
Partnership for Transfer of Technology has been entered into with Centre of Development of Advanced Computing - Kolkata for manufacturing and marketing electronic instruments for quality measurement of Rice and Tea

Software as a Service

Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamil Nadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.