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.