SENEKELA - Price collection and dissemination market intelligence service for farmers

Start
January 2012
End
April 2021
Project cost
25 000 € /an
Role in the project
Market and ICT expert

Countries

Mali

Fields

Market

Sectors

Cashew Cereal Fertilizer Gum arabic Shea Corn Millet Rice Sesame

Main goals

SENEKELA is a package of services proposed by Orange Mali to Malian farmers or their representatives and accessible via mobile phone. These services aim at enhancing the productivity of the farms and at providing information in order to allow farmers to market their production in better conditions.

Specific objectives

  • Implementation of the data collection system (market price for agricultural products) and their modelling in a database
  • Implementation of an Information Service by Orange named SENEKELA on 4 agricultural chains (cashew, shea, onion, maize) through the USSD service and a call center of agricultural advisors. It includes a data collection system of market prices on products and their modeling in a data base

Beneficiaries

Orange clients and Malian farmers

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Alassane Sogodogo

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