Smartphone Advisory App for Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Growers

Cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants has become a challenge in front of the agriculture sector and the cultivators as the post harvesting techniques are complicated and the market in unorganized. There is very less control of the government over the market of medicinal and aromatic plants. There are several marketing problems faced by the cultivators of medicinal and aromatic plants in Maharashtra. More ever the cultivation of medicinal plants is made easy by providing technical knowhow of agronomy of the medicinal and aromatic plants but the marketing of these plants is major challenge before the agriculture sector and cultivators. The proposed app will have a geocoded system and medicinal and aromatic plant related data. It will provide a platform to farmers which will help and guide them through various agro techniques possibly taken to enhance the production and storage that helps in secure application development.