Open AccessMobile Apps: Potential ICT tools to disseminate Technologies on Value Addition of Mango, Guava and Aonla Fruits
Author(s) -
H. C. Verma,
Neelima Garg
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of agrisearch
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2348-8867
pISSN - 2348-8808
DOI - 10.21921/jas.v8i01.19568
Subject(s) - dissemination , livelihood , quality (philosophy) , download , mobile apps , agriculture , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , business , world wide web , geography , biology , telecommunications , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
ICAR-CISH has developed four mobile apps on mango products, two on guava products and two on aonla products to disseminate value addition protocols of respective fruits. In this work, mobile apps have been developed to provide advisory on preparing quality processed products of main fruits of Subtropical region. For developing apps, cloud- based tool viz. ‘’MIT app Inventor2.0’’ was used. This tool can be used for app development using visual, event-based block programming method in browser itself. The apps were developed to provide advisories on preparation of quality processed fruit products such as different types of pickles, squash, murabba, candy, RTS drinks, etc. Apps provide audio facility as well as calculation of ingredients amount on a mouse click. These apps are very interactive and helpful to the farmers in preparing quality processed products of fruits even at cottage scale. These apps are available on ‘Google Play’ for free download. The information provided by app will be helpful in reducing post harvest losses of fruits, generation of employment opportunities and improve the livelihood status of the farmers.