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MOBILE DATA COLLECTION
Agricultural Extension Programs
Agricultural extension programs improve yields and incomes for farmers. Trained agents visit communities to ensure the dissemination of current best practices, organize cooperatives, and implement secondary programs.
These agricultural workers are expected to travel extensively across their countries while ensuring they maintain consistent and high-quality work with limited training.
CommCare helps to alleviate spatial and consistency issues for agricultural extension agents.
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Benefits of Mobile Data Collection in Agricultural Extension Programs
Mobile apps can support online and offline data collection, facilitate record keeping, and generate easily shareable reports for farming supervisors.
Registration and case sharing enable tracking across visits, facilitating continuum of personalized training according to crop, farm size, & technique.
Multimedia integrations offer more engaging worker trainings, ensuring correct information is shared, while increasing worker performance.
Interaction with servers ensures market and technical information is accurate and up-to-date.
Decision support and checklists increase adherence to protocols, improving extension agents’ performance and efficiency.
Mobile apps and SMS can send reminders to extension agents to follow up on low-performing farmers.
Featured CommCare-Based Agricultural Extension Programs
CRS
India
The Rice-based Rainfed Agricultural System tracks the varying efficacy of rice crops…
CARE Pathways
India, Tanzania
CARE’s female self-help agricultural groups improve productivity and increase yields…
Technoserve: AgriPlus
South Africa
This FLW support system offers farmer tracking and multimedia-based counseling materials…
Catholic Relief Services
India
The Rice-based Rainfed Agricultural System tracks the varying efficacy of rice crops.
Catholic Relief Services is using CommCare to support an agriculture project in India through the Gates Foundation’s initiative, "Improved Rice-based Rainfed Agricultural Systems." Extension agents and supervisors track the progress of farms growing these various varieties of rice. Each rice variety's effectiveness is tracked and evaluated, leading to better livelihood outcomes in this agriculturally dependent region.
CARE Pathways
India, Tanzania
CARE’s female self-help agricultural groups improve productivity and increase yields.
Since 2013, Dimagi has been working on the CARE Pathways project, which is focused on helping female self-help agricultural groups improve their productivity and increase incomes. Dimagi has set up a custom, tablet-based scheduling and activity tracking system for CARE's extension workers, providing a "Knowledge Base" for on-site refresher training, as well as a complex data collection system to track group and individual performance on yield, income, and empowerment indicators. All content is locally contextualized a summarized in easily parsed custom reporting.
Technoserve: AgriPlus
South Africa
This FLW support system offers farmer tracking and multimedia-based counseling materials.
Technoserve supports agriculture extension workers and supervisors to track crop status, financials, and payroll information. The CommCare application records farmer information for easy access by extension workers and contains multimedia counseling materials such as the safe use of pesticides and seedling growing techniques.
The Latest on Mobile Data Collection in Agricultural Extension Programs
Updates and advice from our world-class partners and Global Services team
What’s Ahead for Mobile Data Collection in Agriculture?
A Q&A with Research Coordinator Jack Hetherington (ACIAR) on his advice for mobile data collection in ag programs.
How to Unlock the Power of Feedback
Oikoi (formerly AgImpact) shares their advice on how providing immediate feedback to beneficiaries can improve a variety of outcomes for the entire program.
Digitizing Coffee Agronomy Training & Monitoring
Global Technology Manager Kevin Zeigler discusses how three of Technoserve’s initiatives adopted mobile data collection platforms to train farmers in East Africa.
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applications that are everything
from simple and straightforward to
those with challenging and unique
designs and use cases.”
- Ted Barlow, President
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control the experience of our fieldbased
data collectors, which
drastically reduced human error.”
- Bhawna Mangla, Senior Research Associate
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