Inspiration
Farmers, who live in remote areas, have to travel long distance to marketplace in order to sell their products and due to so many intermediate supply chains they have to sell it at a lower price. So, in order to sell their products at an efficient amount, we offer you to effortlessly market your crop with direct transaction between buyers and sellers. Through Agro Acres, the farmers will able to sell all of their produce and none of it remains unsold or turns into waste. That's how it becomes beneficial to the farmers.
What it does
It provides latest government news on agricultural policies to farmers which might be helpful in order to sell their crops. Through this platform, remote farmers can sell all of their produce in an efficient manner only between seller and buyer. Retailer/wholesaler could get a variety of price rates for a specific crop, which will also helpful in saving their money. It can also provide forum for complaints to all users where any type of fraud can be detected.
How we built it
We have used reactjs and tailwind css for the frontend of the website . We have use news api for fetching and displaying the latest news of government policies. We have used firebase for the backend, authentication and hosting of the website.
Challenges we ran into
Making the UI for our agricultural website was a bit challenging as we had to provide all the key features as well as in efficient manner which will be helpful to the farmers. We had some problems retrieving the data through API and displaying on the website.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are glad to have completed our website in time, as we have decided. In addition to it, we did our best in providing all the features in our website and proper UI which farmers will find useful while selling their crops. We hope this will help farmers to save their hard-earned money and time.
What we learned
It was fun to explore the API and providing the adequate news on agricultural policies to farmers and providing an interface which is easy to use and especially for those farmers who have little knowledge of tech field.
What's next for AGRO ACRES
We wish to add a few more features in our website like providing Google encryption which uses Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm to ensure that farmers data of selling and buying crops is secure, private, and safe on the internet. The most important thing is to provide a gateway for payment transaction, which has to be well We wish to add a few more features in our website like providing Google encryption which uses Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm to ensure that farmers data of selling and buying crops is secure, private, and safe on the internet. The most important thing is to provide a gateway for payment transaction, which has to be well managed to prevent any type of frauds. That's how it would become beneficial to the farmers and provide it globally.
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