mKrishi Fisheries: the Sea in Your Hand
The fishing industry, one that is particularly risky, costly and environmentally damaging, with the majority of its labour force living below the poverty line, has recently started enjoying a positively disruptive impact of technology formerly unknown to it. Contrary to how a solid portion of novel innovations, in their early days, is often chiefly available to those positioned high enough on the social ladder to be able to afford it, this new technology, in the form of a mobile phone application, is tailored to suit members of fishing communities and is thus financially accessible in its early adoption stages.
Software Engineer Dineshkumar Singh introduces us to mKRISHI Fisheries, a mobile phone application developed in India as a result of multi-dimensional research and field work among a number of partner organizations, with the aim of making the work of fishermen more efficient, profitable and, above all, safe.
As Dineshkumar explains: “In the app, fishermen are advised to enter regions only when the corresponding areas on the information map are blue in colour. The provision of an upfront forecast up to five days in advance means that the app helps even trawlers who go for multi-day fishing trips.”
Photo Credit: mKRISHI Fisheries
Apart from improving fishing and fish marketing, the system reduces diesel consumption, enables dissemination of weather warnings and can aid rescues during cyclones,
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