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General information

Innovation ID154
Version ID103
Innovation TitleA smartphone app providing aquaculture extension Information
Innovation description A virtual aquaculture extension application has been co-designed with a local ICT company called Greenway. The app has been designed based on their previous agriculture and livestock App in use by 85,000 farmers. The Aquaculture App brings access to weather forecasts for the immediate area where the farmer is located. It also delivers messages about sourcing inputs (seed and feed), market prices and trends plus climate risks.
Reporting Staff Michael Akester (WF)
Year (Reporting)2018
Reporting statusApproved
Innovation TypeResearch and Communication Methodologies and Tools

Stage reached

Stage of InnovationStage 2: successful piloting
Year (Stage)2018
Stage DescriptionThe application is now in use by over 1,000 farmers. The Department of Fisheries and private sector Myanmar Fisheries Federation have received training in the use of the application. The App can be downloaded (http://www.en.greenwaymyanmar.org/) only onto an Android platform.
Has a lead organizationyes
Lead OrganizationGreenovator Co.Ltd
Top 5 contributorsDepartment of Fisheries Myanmar; International Development Research Centre; Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Interdisciplinary research group at Chiang Mai University; WorldFish

Contributions and mapping

All partners
Main CRP CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems
Flagship project FP1-Sustainable aquaculture
Cluster FP1-3-Aquaculture systems
Other CRPs-Flagships-Clusters

Scope

Geographic scopeGlobal
Regions
Countries

Targeted outcomes

Main Sub-IDO
Other Sub-IDO
Other Sub-IDO

Evidences

EvidencesGreenovator website (accessed April 2019)
[http://www.mmgreenovator.com/ ]

Green Way Myanmar (accessed April 2019)
[http://www.en.greenwaymyanmar.org/ ]

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Outcome Impact Case
Policy