Laptop or computer scientist creates application to support farmers

A Ugandan laptop or computer scientist has created a net application built to assistance farmers in record maintaining and obtain to facts on the finest expenditure selections.

The application also aids farmers keep track of their functions, financial data, and presents assistance on thriving farming approaches and the most effective-farming approaches.

Ms Mercy Nekesa, an entrepreneur in Mbale City and a founder of Raining Greens Ltd, designed the app.

The app, which can be accessed via a browser on cell equipment, was crafted in between very last July to February this yr.

Ms Nekesa is just one of the 150 women of all ages business people who was geared up all through the Mounting Girl Coaching in Mbale last thirty day period.

The education was organised by Check Publications Constrained in partnership with dfcu Lender and Uganda Investment decision Authority (UIA) in the fifth version of the  Soaring Woman  initiative.

The initiative aims at recognising, celebrating, and endorsing a society of mentorship amid women of all ages in company. 

It also equips business people with basic company skills to start out, develop, and control unique varieties of organizations.

Ms Nekesa, who graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in the US, told Daily Monitor  last 7 days that the application aids farmers boost their generate and earnings.

“The application allows the farmers select the greatest farming sectors to make investments in based on features this sort of as their site, price range, and local climate. It assists farmers to observe their farm functions from any locale at any time,” she stated.

Ms Nekesa reported the software package also does monetary evaluation of the farm in genuine-time to make sure that farmers have accurate information and use accepted farming solutions.

“Farmers can use the application to monitor all the procedures ranging from planting, labour input, harvest, and earnings, amongst other folks so that they can ably make the appropriate conclusions,” she mentioned.

The laptop scientist included that the computer software also will make it a lot easier for organisations and firms to keep track of many farmers from wherever at any time.

“This computer software will become the go-to resource for selling thriving professional farming in Uganda since in excess of-reliance on subsistence is the key induce of the continued high poverty levels,” she reported.

Ms Leslie Mutumba, the financial commitment government (SMEs) at UIA, claimed gals enterprises participate in a essential job in the progress of the place.

“We realised that most of the SMEs in the place are ladies-owned. We only want them to streamline the way they run their business enterprise, in particular as regards to keeping records and formalising their enterprises,” she reported.

The Uganda Nationwide Panel study launched in 2019 showed that 75 per cent of Ugandans without the need of formal education interact agriculture.

All through the launch of the Parish Enhancement Design in Kibuku District early this year, President Museveni reported 39 per cent of Uganda’s 41 million inhabitants reside from hand to mouth.