DomainStudy

Abstract: Even if you live in a big house and you have a farm, you don’t have the time to take care of the farm. City dwellers largely face two problems, if they don’t trust the produce available in the market and want to grow their own.There is either a space problem or a time problem or both.

Agriculture in India: Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India, more so in the vast rural areas. It also contributes a significant figure to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sustainable agriculture, in terms of food security, rural employment, and environmentally sustainable technologies such as soil conservation, sustainable natural resource management and biodiversity protection, are essential for holistic rural development. Indian agriculture and allied activities have witnessed a green revolution, a white revolution, a yellow revolution and a blue revolution. As farmers don't have proper awareness on usage of pesticides.So,it effects the quality of the crops. There is overwhelming evidence that some of these chemicals do pose potential risks to the ecosystem in general and human beings in particular. It is estimated that around 800,000 people in developing countries have died due to pesticides since the onset of the Green Revolution. Nearly 20,000 people in developing. Countries die each year because of pesticide consumption through their food. Though all sections of the population are exposed to the risks of pesticides at different levels,the direct exposure risk is more among workers in production centres, supply chain and end-users. So,farmrevol provides a solution for consumers to take quality food by renting lands from farmer and specifying the crops to be grown and pesticides to be used. http://ppqs.gov.in/sites/default/files/1._statewise_consumption_chemical.pdf

Problem Statement: Today more people are willing to pay more for getting good quality food crops because of use of heavy pesticides used by farmers in order to cope up with the market demands. Also this creates a heavy toll on the farmers because of multiple factors like middle-man, sudden decline in market demands etc.

Solution Approach: Our solution provides a platform for both farmers and consumers to directly trade crops as per the consumers' requirement needs.

Value Proposition: This disrupts the existing market value chain by removing the need for the middle-man and helps both consumers and farmers to get good quality crops (as farmers will know the exact amount of crops that they need to grow and don't have to go for quantity over quality) and also the farmers as they don't have to go through the middle-man for selling their crops and can make more profits rather than undergo distress selling.

Supply Chain Management: Supply chains are principally concerned with the flow of products and information between supply chain member organizations—procurement of materials, transformation of materials into finished products, and distribution of those products to end customers. Today’s information-driven, integrated supply chains are enabling organizations to reduce inventory and costs, add product value, extend resources, accelerate time to market, and retain customers.The real measure of supply chain success is how well activities coordinate across the supply chain to create value for consumers, while increasing the profitability of every link in the supply chain. In other words, supply chain management is the integrated process of producing value for the end user or ultimate consumer.The supply chains of different agricultural commodities in India, however, are fraught with challenges stemming from the inherent problems of the agriculture sector. The agriculture supply chain system of the country is determined by different sartorial issues like dominance of small/ marginal farmers, fragmented supply chains, absence of scale economies, low level of processing/value addition, inadequacy of marketing infrastructure etc. Early processing-based supply chain management success included improved relationships between warehousing and transportation within companies as a result of reduced inventory and better response time to customer requests for products and services. Supply chain management then entered a logistics stage where other functional areas within companies joined forces to incorporate manufacturing, procurement, transportation,distribution, and marketing to effectively compete in the marketplace. This stage was aided by the use of telecommunications, electronic data interface, and other technological advances that made the transfer of information more transparent across the functional areas between companies.