Angelique UWIMANA MIS specialist MINAGRI

AMIS  Agricultural Management Information system  Contain information relation to: ◦ Agricultural extension material, ◦ training materials, ◦ Promotion material ◦ Report and survey, ◦ policy and strategy, ◦ Agricultural statistics ◦ Maps ◦ yellow pages and white pages  Web application  Launched in June,2009 Esoko.  Market price information system  Made of 2 phases,  Phase I completed  in project preparation of phase II  Provide the latest agricultural and related commodity prices at all major markets in Rwanda  Web and mobile (SMS and IVR) application  Igiciro(space) market name (space) commodity name  eSOKO phase I launched in January 2010.

3 eSOKO Technology Overview  Flexible, configurable platform.  Supports many use cases.  Hosted, managed service.  Web services integration with other systems.  Multi-channel access.  Interactive communication.  Data collection.  Real-time data analysis & decision support. System Dashboards Smartphone SMS IVR PC Client Web Voxiva Platform

AMIS  Linkage of the farmers, farmers organisation and cooperative to the market through yellow pages  Facilate Agricultural stakeholders in the best practice of modernized agriculture and livestock  Develop the beneficiaries by informing them ( information is the root of development)  Facilitate the researchers to be informed on what is going on.  Reduce duplications of some activities and research in agricultural sector  Direct Agricultural business. Esoko  Reduce the costs and stabilize the prices of the basic foodstuffs  sensitize producers to invest in new products that can generate more revenues  facilitate the access to the foodstuffs by the population at a fair price  contribute to stability of prices at reasonable levels by encouraging greater competition  Explain the strategy for scaling up e-soko and sustainability.

esoko :  The whole country ◦ 50 markets ◦ 87 commodities ◦ Neibourhood countriesAMIS:  The whole country and abroad

AMIS:  Between 9123 and 2107 visits per week from its launch.  131 registered cooperatives (Yellow pages )have been invited in different training/meetings for their capacity buildings  30 registered yellow pages get the market of their products from AMIS yellow pages visitors  Those are the numbers we got from Feedback provided by the benefiting organisation may be there others who did not communicate it.  Feedback are provided through and mobile phone channel ESOKO: From its launch up to now :  60,865 people used sms  June to Dec-09 the sms are 7,431 =12.2%  Jan –Dec 2010 the sms are 19862=32.6%  Jan- October 2011 the sms are 33,572= 55.2%  9577 people using web  Provide the feedback through different channels

AMIS:  Farmers  Farmers organisation  Extension workers  Partners (local and international)  Researchers  Students eSoko:  Ministry of Trade  Rwanda public procurement authority(RPPA)  The project for increasing crop production/JICA  Farm Concern International  Fewsnet  National Institute of Statistics /GDP and EICV  World Food Program use eSoko to negotiate price with farmers  Farmers and farmers organisation like Imbaraga  and others.

AMIS:  Developed by MINAGRI in Partnership with Belgium Gor through BTC  Running by MINAGRI – CICA  Free of charger service use  Uses the government budget (all costs are covered by MINAGRI) eSoko:  Developed by MINAGRI in partnership with World Bank trough eRwanda Project/RDB  Running by MINAGRI  To use it cost you an sms cost  Use the budget of MINAGRI (all costs are covered by MINAGRI)

 Multilingual ( Kinyarwanda, Swahili and English): ◦ Market Price(Minimum, Model and Maximum) ◦ Crop advisory as per the stage of the crop cycle ◦ Weather or Climate changes  user - friendly online interface  online market intermediation/ trading platform : ◦ Facilitating market linkage between small holder farmers, cooperatives, traders and the processing industries.  Mobile phone based payment gateway (like m-pesa in kenya - in paying the farmers in villages)  Informal cross border trade data collection using J2ME Application  Monitoring/ Surveillance of price trends will be enhanced  Enhancement of the analytics capabilities; Reports Enhancements, System  User monitoring report  And soon.

AMIS & eSoko  We are encouraging whoever  The channel is the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources- MINAGRI Or  Agricultural Information and Communication Centre - MINAGRI

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