How mobile apps have extended its tentacles in the realm of Agriculture

Before the advent of mobile app development, Ag professionals were working harder rather than smarter. But after the advent of mobile app, the scenario has shown something drastic where smart farming technologies have enables not only reduction of cost, but maximisation of yield as well as profits by keeping the efficiency intact.

There is no better way of smart farming rather than with the help of mobile app. It has really become a game changer not only for the on-the-go growers but also for ag retailers by enabling to perform vital tasks wherever and whatever they need it. Irrespective from scouting fields to managing agronomic data, or creating farm maps to flying drones which has encompassed a scenario that there is no job left that cannot be performed by the farming app. These apps have intensified the demand further and mobile app developers are still continuing to launch apps that are user friendly as well as simple to use.

Ag Guardian

“Ag Guardian was developed by a farmer for a farmer to save time and money”. Ag Guardian is as effective to be utilised easily and is considered as a great way to keep up with all the necessary field applications. After setup, it takes less than a minute to enter the product record:

• It selects the supplier from where ordered the product from.
• It selects the farms as well as field the product it is basically applied to.
• It enters the product quoted prices as well as quantity.
• It enables the user to compare the bill against the records that has been entered into Ag Guardian.
• It alleviates the probability of billing error as far as current scenario of farming is concerned.

It even has a page where the price quotes can be requested as far as suppliers are concerned in order to assist the farmers to locate the lowest prices for the input supplies. Hence this app is considered as a boon to maintain the warehouse by farmers.

AgriSync

It renders to provide the incomparable customer service with less paperwork. It is catered with faster service in case the equipment is broken down or technology bug by access with the trusted advisors. It seamlessly scale the enterprise in order to help the farmers with less expenditure. With service customer dashboard, it heels to stay organised with instant feedback from the customer. It supports live video chat. This app is quite simple as well as easy to use. Apart from these, there are few more features:

• Ticketing system in order to track support
• Individual and team web Dashboard
• Results can be easily shared
• Dashboard can be branded
• Hosts unlimited mobile video support sessions

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An app free for farmers is a smartphone app designed in order to measure the nitrogen uptake in a crop as well as generating nitrogen recommendations on the basis of photographs which calculates nitrogen uptake on leaf green colour, leaf colour as well as estimated fraction of brown leaves. It generates an intelligent recommendation in order to adjust the fertilisation program on the basis of measurements.

This app is user friendly as well as flexible as far as technical requirements are concerned and can effectively works with low resolution varying from 50-200 KB. It works with the same efficiency even if the internet coverage is poor. It saves the photograph and send them for further interpretation when reception is revived all over again.

AgCareers. Com

AgCareers.com is considered to be the leading provider as far as global talent solutions in agriculture are concerned. It strives to improve the agricultural industries by connecting the job seekers as well as employers  with the help of targeted as well as online tools that is not only economical but produces results. The app which came into the existence ever since 2013, not including better criteria by equating more precise results. Job seekers can even narrow down available jobs on the basis of keywords, industry sector, location, career type and even to a particular employer. The main difference between the current as well as previous version is the capability of uploading the resume through Google Drive or Dropbox which is really a boon for agricultural workers.

Above apps surely, would alleviate the arduous jobs of farmers and would raise the productivity of the farmer. Hats off to the mobile application development companies that are dedicating in the realm of agriculture which is known to be the backbone of any economy.

Robust Strategy to Promote New Apps

Robust Strategy to Promote New Apps

About 1300 apps are added in play store every day, and about 1000 in app store. With that statics in mind, it looks arduous to gain success with your newly launched app. Marketing, hence, becomes important aspect. Even the good products need marketing support behind them to become a successful one. Everpix is an example. Launched in 2009, everpix was great product which is meant for organizing and sorting the photos in the phone. By 2012 they had 55000 users, but the closed down by 2013. Why? Because of no promotional activity. But, with tech giants and top android mobile app development companies spending billions of dollars in marketing, startups and freelance developers finds it uneasy to cope up. But there are many platforms where you can promote your app for free or for at least reasonable price which people often forgets or don’t pay required attention. Here’s a list.

Optimization is best

According to Forrester, 63% of apps are found because of searches in app stores. Here ASO comes into play, as you need your app to be shown in top results you need to focus on optimization. ASO is same for apps as SEO for websites. It is the best and most efficient way to promote your app on the app store. ASO can be prove vital in any app success. It’s all about keywords, good keyword with low competition can get any app more downloads. Gaston Irigoyen, developer of Guidecental, discussed how ASO helped them to increases the downloads by 700%! Yeah you read it right, 700%.

Go social

Old yet effective, social media is used by giants as well as startups. With 1.79 billion active monthly users, Facebook is the pandora’s box for you to search the potential customers of the new app. Twitter is also a strong stage to showcase your app with 317 million active monthly users. Gary Vaynerchuk has a strong social media presence, which helps him greatly with any of his project. Fluper, a top android mobile app development company has also a wide social media appearance.

It’s a race

Organizing contests or referral program is also a fruitful way to bring your app into lime light. Just like Shuttl, a daily commuter app, who started a referral program where users can refer their friends and can earn free rides. Similar programs are often used by Uber, Ola and other taxi apps. This strategy not only helps to grow the downloads but also increases the daily use of the app and retention. Dropbox has the most popular referral program which offers 500 MB of extra space for every download. This has increased permanent signups by 60%. Between 2008 and 2015, 35% of daily signups were from referral program.

Video marketing

By 2019, 80% of the world’s internet traffic will be videos. Videos are short, informative and they attract attention easily. It is the quickest way to attract potential users, create a teaser video, promo video or walkthrough of the app can be effective to help gain downloads and it will also help users to know how to use the app (it’s complex). A good viewed video on YouTube can get your app word of mouth. Google play also allows you to add video.

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