Computer scientist creates software to support farmers

A Ugandan computer scientist has designed a internet application built to support farmers in document keeping and access to data on the finest expense decisions.

The app also aids farmers continue to keep keep track of of their operations, monetary data, and offers assistance on successful farming methods and the finest-farming approaches.

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

The application, which can be accessed by means of a browser on cellular devices, was created in between previous July to February this yr.

Ms Nekesa is a person of the 150 females entrepreneurs who was equipped in the course of the Soaring Lady Teaching in Mbale last thirty day period.

The training was organised by Watch Publications Constrained in partnership with dfcu Bank and Uganda Financial commitment Authority (UIA) in the fifth version of the  Rising Woman  initiative.

The initiative aims at recognising, celebrating, and endorsing a lifestyle of mentorship amid girls in business. 

It also equips business people with fundamental business expertise to start, expand, and deal with distinct forms of companies.

Ms Nekesa, who graduated from the Point out College of New York at Buffalo in the US, informed Each day Monitor  final week that the app aids farmers enhance their deliver and cash flow.

“The application helps the farmers decide on the ideal farming sectors to invest in dependent on facets these kinds of as their area, spending budget, and local climate. It will help farmers to keep track of their farm pursuits from any spot at any time,” she claimed.

Ms Nekesa mentioned the software package also does economic analysis of the farm in true-time to make sure that farmers have accurate data and use accredited farming solutions.

“Farmers can use the app to monitor all the processes ranging from planting, labour input, harvest, and earnings, amid others so that they can ably make the appropriate conclusions,” she stated.

The pc scientist included that the software package also helps make it easier for organisations and providers to track many farmers from any place at any time.

“This computer software will turn out to be the go-to useful resource for marketing productive commercial farming in Uganda for the reason that above-reliance on subsistence is the principal trigger of the ongoing large poverty ranges,” she reported.

Ms Leslie Mutumba, the expenditure govt (SMEs) at UIA, reported women of all ages enterprises engage in a vital function in the progress of the state.

“We realised that most of the SMEs in the place are women-owned. We only want them to streamline the way they operate their business, in particular as regards to keeping records and formalising their organizations,” she mentioned.

The Uganda Countrywide Panel study launched in 2019 confirmed that 75 per cent of Ugandans without official instruction interact agriculture.

During the launch of the Parish Advancement Design in Kibuku District early this 12 months, President Museveni explained 39 % of Uganda’s 41 million populace stay from hand to mouth.