Kwagric

Farming at hand

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## Inspiration

Most farmers are not educated and even most educated ones finds it difficult to surf the internet because of low bandwidth in some areas across the nation. Lot of farmers do not own a Smartphone, however, in order to proffer a veritable solution to their challenges, together with my team we developed and building a USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) solution to order farm products which will help reduce cost, risk and stress of traveling from one location to another. This is sincerely inspired by NaijaHacks Hackathon and we are super glad to participatew in this awesome competition. In addition, we are not comparing and competing with any team but we are so passionate to solve realtime challenges of over Millions of working farmers across the nation.

## What it does

Kwagric App provides solution to help farmers and agricultural merchants order farm products using USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) for simplicity and quick access without making use of internet or Smartphone.

## How we built it

The APP was developed using the following technologies stack: Backend : PHP/ MySQL , Africa's talking USSD API and GitHub pages

FrontEnd: HTML5/CSS/ JQuery and MaterializeCSS.

## Challenges we ran into

Hosting and linking custom domain on Github pages, DNS taking much time to propagate so it wasn't easy because of the limited time we had.

## Accomplishments that we're proud of We were so excited that we were able to challenge ourselves to tackle the proposed project and came up with a working solution.

## What we learned

We learnt API integrations and Gthub page hosting with custom domain

## What's next for Kwagric For this challenge, we could only cover farm product ordering, our next focus is how payments will be made via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) to complete order.

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