Agriculture Phone Application Development

In Lebanon,the difficult circumstances the country is facing, reduces the youth’s opportunities of job creation, employment and increases the unemployment rate and immigration trend. One of The LEE Experience’s main targets is youth. One of their programs being implemented currently with the International Labour Organization (ILO), provides support for agriculture and agro-food start-ups to reach many goals, one of them is to introduce the digital experience into the program to improve its efficiency and leverage its success rate.

In light of the project deliverables, The LEE Experience aims at developing an Agriculture platform for networking, e-commerce, fund raising and e-learning.

The proposed platform mainly consists of building a network that:

• Connects people in the agriculture sector starting with the projects' beneficiaries including farmers, workers, suppliers in the targeted communities and experts.
• Gives the Workers the opportunity to a) create their own profiles where they can share and promote their goods online so that buyers and anyone who signs in to the application could shop, and b) search for job opportunities within the local businesses.
• Enables the above-mentioned beneficiaries’ to truly work as one. Therefore, the app should serve as a document management including data capture tools, farm maps, library of labels and safety data sheet (SDS), and communication tools in order to improve the workflow and increase production’s efficiency. The app is the most convenient way to access, capture, manage and share the agriculture/ farm data from anywhere. It should be an online /offline app that allows beneficiaries to get things done while in the field, even without an internet connection. The app automatically syncs all the beneficiaries’ information to their secure account once they are back in range.
• Allows farmers/ business owners, suppliers and advisors to connect and resolve support issues on the farm/ Agri-food/labor by connecting farmers to multiple advisors/specialists from different companies/organizations/ establishments to submit and receive support in real-time via video/or call. Advisors/ specialists can manage multiple farmer services/ requests through a dashboard and remote video that allows them to see what the farmer sees in real-time. A Web-based customer service dashboard allows the advisor's organization/ company to see open cases, resolution status, and farmer feedback in real-time.
• The app can also make it possible for beneficiaries/ users to remotely monitor environmental conditions and make decisions related to their Agri-labour, crop production sites or water management systems by delivering customized insight for data from sensors in the field such as weather stations, soil moisture, and water distribution.
• Finally, in an objective to support local agro-businesses, the application will pertain a podium for crowd-funding where people from all over the globe could check businesses profiles, select one and send them a donation. 
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The provider will be responsible for developing, designing and assisting in the launching of the application, as well as the support and maintenance post-deployment.