The "Ki-shaan" app aims to provide a better marketplace for the farmers by removing dependency on middlemen and local traders and selling their crops directly to the customer.This is achieved by allowing farmers to create or join cooperatives which also helps in providing good quality seeds and equipment.Also it allows the farmers to borrow some money from the common cooperative fund on the basis of a voting system.
Link to the devfolio page of our app
The various unique functionalities provided by our app are as follows:-
#Interface for the farmers:-
● All the farmers registered in the app can put up their crops for sale with their prices and quantity available. All the crops put up by different farmers will be visible to every customer for buying the same. Through this, the individual farmers can get a reasonable price for their crops by directly selling to the customers.
● Separate accounts for each farmer which shows the total sales for their crops.
● A farmer can form a group or cooperative that will work collectively to sell their crops and remove any involvement of these middlemen and local traders.
● Each cooperation will be secured and joinable only on the basis of a unique code.
● A separate account for each cooperative that holds up a certain amount(10%) of profits made by the farmers belonging to the group.
● In future, if a farmer belonging to the cooperative requires some amount of money to deal with their debts,or buy good seeds,fertilizers,etc, the farmer can make a request to the cooperative for lending the same.(without any interests upto a certain limit)
● The request of the farmer will be voted out by all the other members of the cooperation and if the majority of members agree, the amount is lended to the farmer.
● Also, our app provides the farmers to make them aware of the latest announcements and schemes started by the Indian government.
Our app will not only help to provide remunerative prices to the farmers for their crops but also help them deal with any other financial deficiencies they may face.
#Interface for the customers:-
● The customers can access all the crops sorted in the order of lowest price, that has been put up for sale by different farmers.All the data displayed is auto updated, all because of the realtime database.
● For each of the selected crops, the description is provided and after the quantity to be buyed is validated, the customer can purchase the crops using suitable payment methods.
● The customers have an option to contact us if they face any issues related to the app.
● The customers also have an option to donate some amount of their choice to help the farmers prosper more and become self-reliant.
Apart from these,we have included proper authentication of users accessing our app in the form of Login and Register forms, to avoid unnecessary overflow of our database._
Open the .apk file for installation, note that Play store will warn about the security of the app, but it is because the app is not registered with them. We ensure that the app is completely safe to use, so proceed with the installation. Click on "Install anyways".
New users can easily register by giving required inputs and already existing users can log in with their email ids. Each user's data is securely maintained and user's recieve personlised information on their handset.
Customer are allowed to have 4 options wherein they can buy the crops as available,they can view their account information,they can donate some amount for thw welfare of the farmers and also they can contact the admins if they face any issue.
Farmers are provided with 4 options wherein they can sell their crops with their set price,they can view their account information, they can view their wallets which gives us the total sales with each customer info, they can also join or create a cooperative.
This section of our app contains the option to see the info of all the members of the cooperative,also it allows the farmer to view any money requests and also he/she can ask to borrow money from the common cooperative account.