Agro-Market by Unique

The marketplace where farmers in Ethiopia can sell their products in an easy and simple way

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Inspiration

Ethiopia is mostly a rural country, 85% of its population is engaged in agricultural activities. Farmers in small rural towns face different problems which prevents them from improving their life. The team Unique wants to find a solution that helps farmers to improve their lives and their families

How we built it

We’ve come up with new application named AGRO-MARKET to tackle the longer supply-chain between the farmer and the consumer. This application will allow to display the products of the farmer with their prices to the consumers and the consumers will be able to buy the product they want directly from the farmer. By using the application, the farmers will save their time and energy to sell their products.

The team build paper prototypes and also designed some of the screens of the application using Figma.

Challenges we ran into

The team identified the following challenges:

  • Difficult to access to the application in rural areas
  • Aversion to change from society
  • Lack of knowledge of the technology.
  • Farmers might not know how to use the app
  • No coverage in rural areas

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • How to identify any problem and then how to solve it
  • Knowing that there is not such a thing as a bad idea

What we learned

  • The importance of saving money
  • Finance is not for only a few is for the entire society
  • What are the sustainability goals
  • The importance of how to manage money
  • How to think about raw materials, production, technology, transportation
  • How to help farmers

What's next

In the future the team would like to add the following features to the app:

  • Education tools for farmers about how to be more productive
  • How to get raw materials
  • How to access new technologies for farming
  • Weather alerts (floods, fires, etc)

Built With

  • figma
  • mural
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