Claims:CLAIMS:

What is claimed is:
[1] A Virtual agri services system (102) based in at least a mobile communication device comprising of: downloading and installation of the specific application at the user end device terminal in text menu; facilitation of creation of an account and onboard of the end user(104) by providing his/her personal identification details; accepting various input data from the said end user(104) under different categories which are saved on a central cloud based server; devising of queries based on a plurality of external parameters; wherein the remote location of the said end user is identified using the Geo stamp by the said application(102); routing the query from the external cloud based server to a human expert/group (106a/108a,108b,108c,108d) for required analysis; generating a response to the said query in a plurality of voice or text or video modes; display of the said response at the said user end device terminal in text or voice or video form.

[2] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said application is farm-specific. (104a, 104b, 104c).

[3] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a unique identification code is assigned to the said end user (104) in order to validate the input data from the respective communication device.

[4] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a farm inventory represented by different icons is displayed on the data entry screen of the said communication device.

[5] A system as claimed in claims 1 and 4, wherein the said end user (104) uploads a query as guided by the menu.

[6] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application also entails the creation and onboard of various farm based enterprises (104d) and activities along with usage of inputs with cost in Enterprise Resource Planning mode to enable its efficient management.

[7] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the authenticity of the data during the surveillance of farm(104a,104b,104c) and enterprises(104d) through a plurality of online and offline modules in the form of scheduled observations and non-scheduled observations has been designed.

[8] A system as claimed in claims 1 and 7, further characterized in that, a comparison is enabled to measure the intensity of damage or quantify the identified problem with a pre-determined economic threshold levels.

[9] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application facilitates soil health
tracking.

[10] A system as claimed in claim 8, comprising the generation of a unique soil
sample ID, complimented with an image of the soil carrying the geo- coordinates in order to identify the location through the geo-stamp.

[11] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the query posted by the end user (104) is sent to a human expert group (106a,106b /108a,108b,108c,108d) for analysis via the external cloud server.

[12]. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application facilitates crop life cycle
based expert advisory system.

[13] A system as claimed in claim 1, comprising of receiving the data through the said cloud server; analyzing the received data; formulating the necessary advice (106a,106b/108a, 108b,108c,108d) and sending the same to the said end user (104) via the external cloud server through asynchronous mode.

[14] A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the advisory response generated by the respective human expert group(106a,106b/108a,108b,108c,108d) may be received by the said end user in at least one of text, voice or video modes.

[15] A system as claimed in claim 1, which comprises of updating the knowledge (106a,106b) and skill of the said end user from time to time in at least one of text, voice or video modes.

[16] A system adapted in the said communication device comprising an inbuilt application facilitating the management of the input requirements by farm input aggregator(110a,110b,110c); enabling the direct interaction of the said end user with a plurality of input agencies(110b) or companies for an online price bargain on the same platform.

[17] A system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the said application further comprises of aggregation of the inputs of at least one of the individual farms(104a,104b,104c) or farmer groups (104) at a plurality of informal and formal levels.

[18] A system as claimed in claim 16, where the said application is further characterized in that, the aggregation of the inputs is saved on the external cloud server based on temporal and spatial hierarchies.

[19] A system adapted in the said communication device comprising an inbuilt application facilitating the management of the output requirements by farm output aggregator (112); enabling the creation of a virtual online marketing platform.

[20] A system as claimed in claim 19, wherein the said online marketing platform displays at least one of the required marketing parameters visible to the prospective buyers to enable direct purchase of the produce.

[21] A system adapted in the mobile communication device comprising of an in-built application which facilitates direct interaction of the end user with the financial institutions(114a).

[22] A system as claimed in claim 21, further characterized in that, it enables the
direct submission of an online loan application to the financial institutions(114a) either directly or through at least one of the recognized formal organizations with much lesser requirements of the collaterals.

[23] A system as claimed in claim 21, wherein the said financial institutions (114a) get easy access to monitor the financial health and thereby suggest midterm suggestive action.

[24] A system adapted in the mobile communication device comprising of an in-built application which provides for the crop performance based insurance through the direct interaction of the end user and the insurance provider (114b).

[25] A system as claimed in claim1, wherein the application facilitates the development of business intelligence for end users.

[26] A virtual agri services method comprising of: downloading and installation of the specific application at the user end device terminal in text menu; facilitation of creation of an account and onboard of the end user(104) by providing his/her personal identification details; accepting various input data from the said end user(104) under different categories which are saved on a central cloud based server; devising of queries based on a plurality of external parameters; wherein the remote location of the said end user is identified using the Geo stamp by the said application(102); routing the query from the external cloud based server to a human expert/group (106a/108a,108b,108c,108d) for required analysis; generating a response to the said query in a plurality of voice or text or video modes; display of the said response at the said user end device terminal in text or voice or video form.
, Description:FORM 2

The Patent Act 1970
(39 of 1970)
&
The Patent Rules, 2005

COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
(SEE SECTION 10 AND RULE 13)

TITLE OF THE INVENTION

“VIRTUAL AGRI SERVICES SYSTEM ”

APPLICANTS:

Name : Virtual Agri Services Private Limited.

Nationality : INDIAN COMPANY

Address : 8-1-523/302/1&2, C-2, 2nd Floor, Stellar Frontier, Brindavan Colony, Opp: Ratnadeep Super Market, Above LG showroom, Tolichowki, Hyderabad-500008, Telangana, India.

The following specification particularly describes and ascertains the nature of this invention and the manner in which it is to be performed:-

VIRTUAL AGRI SERVICES SYSTEM

TECHNICAL FIELD:

[001] The present invention relates generally to information technology systems, more particularly, to a virtual agri services application to access rural information services and integrated management to support agriculture.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:

[002] The usage of Information Technology in agriculture and other rural sectors is primitive in nature considering the coverage of robust client base of about more than 98 million farmers and 137 million farm is in itself a formidable task through the conventional system. Even though there are some IT innovations in this sector, they have several lacunae, as a result of which they did not survive long during the pilot stage itself. Hence, there is spatial and temporal divide and disjoint between farm, farmer and the other institutional players and stakeholders in the network.

[003] U.S. Pat. No. 6,553,299 describes integration of Real Time Kinematics (RTK) global positioning system (GPS) technology with precision farming methodologies to provide highly accurate seeding, cultivating, planting and/or harvesting operations. However, the system does not extend to forming a human or machine generated expert advice to a specific query instantly available to a farmer.

[004] US Pat. No. 8,938,218 describes methods and systems for obtaining time specific, location specific, and crop specific data through sensors and passing it to a remote store for generating expert advice by human or machine for the farm personnel in local language, in response to a query generated through a mobile terminal by farm personnel. However, this system does not deal with updating the knowledge and skill of the farmers through the knowledge bank.

[005] US Patent No. 8,909,210 describes a mobile device capable of supporting applications for semi-literate farmers and agricultural industry workers, wherein such applications primarily employ audio form to provide data and information, and promote audio based interactions. This system, however, does not facilitate the face to face interaction through video over IP protocol.

[006] Pat No. CN102142973 describes system and a method for rural information service and comprehensive management. It has no agri-suveillance, life cycle based expert advisory, input aggregation and output aggregation
[007] US Pat No. 6990459 describes a system comprised of hardware, software and business processes for developing an optimal custom farm management plan, and in particular, a single year or multi-year crop selection, acreage allocation, and resource management strategies for production agriculture. This system, however, does not specialize in developing a knowledge bank to update the knowledge of the local farmer or end user.
[008] In the light of the aforementioned prior art, there exists a need for a system and method that would overcome or ameliorate the above mentioned disadvantages. The present disclosure enables farm, farmer and situation centric and life cycle based expert advisory with built in surveillance on pest, diseases and nutrient deficiencies and weather. It also provides for farmer, farm and crop inventory with socio-economic, climatological and bio-physical profiles. It also facilitates business intelligence development for policy makers, administrator, experts & scientists, farmers.
BRIEF SUMMARY:
[009] The following presents a simplified summary of the disclosure in order to provide a basic understanding to the reader. This summary is not an extensive overview of the disclosure and it does not identify key/critical elements of the invention or delineate the scope of the invention. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts disclosed herein in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.

[0010] A more complete appreciation of the present invention and the scope thereof can be obtained from the accompanying drawings which are briefly summarized below and the following detailed description of the presently preferred embodiments.

[0011] Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to a virtual agri services system and method based in a mobile communication device to enable smart agriculture through android based devices and web interface.

[0012] Yet another exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is that the application once launched displays a dashboard with interactive icons for profile, farms, crops, advices, samples, activities and random observations to get customizable schedules for tasks and activities for preparation of action plans, process monitoring and impact evaluation for various hierarchical entities including workforce.

[0013] According to a non-limiting embodiment of the present invention, this system facilitates life cycle based expert advisory for surveillance on pest, diseases and nutrient deficiencies and weather.
[0014] In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the system also facilitates the creation and on-board of various farm based enterprises and also the management of inputs and the costs associated thereof, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
[0015] Another non-limiting aspect of the present subject matter is the provision to facilitate authenticity of data during surveillance of farms and enterprises for various threats that pose serious losses to the end user, online and offline mode, ePest and Surveillance modules in the form of scheduled observations for field staff and unscheduled observations for the end users has been designed.
[0016] In accordance with another non-limiting aspect of the present invention, the system also facilitates soil health tracking of the respective field or farm.
[0017] According to another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is to facilitate experts to advice the end user for the problems in agriculture in an asynchronous mode of communication in text, voice and video based interface. This feature also enables the end users to request face to face interface with the expert through video over IP and virtual one to one and one to many, many to one and many to many interfaces for online meetings and live sessions.

[0018] Preferred embodiment of the present subject matter is the moral hazard at the time of collection of soil samplings by generating a unique soil sample ID through a mobile application with time and geo-stamp. This system facilitates capture of a photograph of the said soil sample along with the respective geo-coordinates.

[0019] Yet another exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to updating the knowledge and skill of end users in the form of text, voice and video to enable the end users in online mode through web interface only.

[0020] Another exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is to facilitate the management of the input requirements by farm input aggregator; enabling the direct interaction of the said end user with a plurality of input agencies or companies for an online price bargain on the same platform.

[0021] Another non-limiting aspect of the present invention is the management of the output requirements by farm output aggregator; enabling the creation of a virtual online marketing platform.

[0022] According to yet another exemplary aspect of the present invention, the system enables direct submission of online application to at least one of the financial and insurance institutions with built in accountability and traceability.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS:

[0023] Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments, in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals have been used to designate like elements, and wherein:

[0024] FIG.1 is a diagrammatic representation of the hierarchical organization of
Virtual Agri Services system and its working on a single platform.

[0025] FIG.2 is a diagrammatic representation of the Level III players.

[0026] FIG.3 is a diagrammatic representation of the Level II players.

[0027] FIG.4 is a diagrammatic representation if the Level I players.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

[0025] It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangement of components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The present disclosure is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or of being carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.

[0026] The use of “including”, “comprising” or “having” and variations thereof herein is meant to encompass the items listed thereafter and equivalents thereof as well as additional items. The terms “a” and “an” herein do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one of the referenced item. Further, the use of terms “first”, “second”, and “third”, and the like, herein do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another.

[0027] Referring to FIG. 1, is a block diagram depicting a virtual agri services system(102) and method based in a mobile communication device to enable smart agriculture through android or the web interface. Entity 102, Virtual AGRI Service system is a cloud based virtual platform which seamlessly connects the level I, II and III players geographically and temporally.

[0028] Level III Players in the Virtual Agri Service system are farmers or farmers groups who would be the end users of the services of VAS who require farm based customization of information for efficient management and profit making.

[0029] Level II comprises of two groups namely, - Level-II A and Level-II B. While Level-IIA comprises of players whose main role is to assess, refine and demonstrate the technology before it is being given to the farmers, Level-IIB units deal with the farm input aggregation, farm output aggregation, and financial and insurance services.

[0030] Level-I players as demonstrated by the FIG.1 mainly comprises of domain
who provide the required solutions to the queries raised by the level-III player, farmer or
farmer groups.

[0031] Customization at each level actually refers to the training that is provided to the
various players at the different levels who are new to the software solution on its proper
usage.

[0032] Referring to FIG.2, it represents the Level III players according to the hierarchical
organization of the Virtual Agri Service system. It represents the farmers or farmers groups who would be the end users of this service and who require farm based customization of information for efficient management and profit making.

[0033] The end user downloads the android app from the Google Play Store and installs on the android based communication device such as a mobile .The end user touches the “New User” button while in the online mode and provides all the required details such as title, surname, first name, middle name, gender, date of birth, age, state, district, Mandal, village, mobile number, email ID , surname along with the photograph and a click on the “Save “ button completes the registration, thereby saving the aforementioned details on a cloud based server. This step completes the formal on-boarding of the end user by himself in a matter of a few minutes depending on the type, nature and speed of the internet.

[0034] Another exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is that the application once launched displays a dashboard with interactive icons for profile, farms, crops, advices, samples, activities and random observations to get customizable schedules for tasks and activities for preparation of action plans, process monitoring and impact evaluation for various hierarchical entities including workforce. The end user logs on to the android application in online mode, soon after which he gets access to the dashboard with interactive icons for profile, farms, crops, advices, samples, activities, random observations and get schedules.

[0035] Upon press/touch of the profile icon, the profile in edit mode is displayed and the end user can save the various details regarding the personal profile. Similarly, upon press/touch of the “farm” icon, various data entry fields’ related to socio-economic, geo-spatial, bio-physical and topographic data to on board the farms of different end users(104a,104b,104c) would be displayed and accordingly the end user can create/edit the data under the “farmers” icon. Entities 104a,104b,104c,104d are to represent one , two, three or four pieces of land which a farmer or a farmer group/organization (Level-III player) possess for which the farmers use the customized information for better output.

[0036] Further, a touch/press of icon on crops, user would be enabled to access data entry screen that contains bio-physical, geo-spatial and temporal details of various farm based enterprises(104d) viz. agricultural/horticultural/pastoral/forest plantations crops and livestock based activities such as dairy, goatry, piggery etc. to enable creation and on-boarding of such enterprises and activities along with usage of inputs with cost in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) mode to enable its efficient management.

[0037] In order to facilitate authenticity of data during surveillance of farms(104a,104b,104c) and enterprises(104d) for various threat that pose serious losses to end users, online and offline mode, ePest and Surveillance module in the form of scheduled observations for field staff and unscheduled observations for the end users (example: farmers or managers) has been designed. Upon touch of icons of the respective observations, respective data entry screens would be enabled to facilitate online reporting of status of damage along with photo and various data parameters on various threats. Upon recording of such observations users, would be prompted to save and upload the surveillance activity to the cloud server for immediate advisory based on economic threshold levels.

[0038] Yet another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure enables the soil health tracking of the respective farm or field. To report any infirmities that prevail upon the performance of soil, it is necessary to test the soil at periodic intervals to assess the input requirements to maintain its health and fertility. The soil sampling activity being performed in participatory mode with the involvement of department officials and farmers that goes a long way in the sustainable maintenance of soil health. In view of heavy work pressure and lack of time, the department officials resort to collecting the soil samples elsewhere on the roadside and submit to soil testing laboratories for assessment of as if the samples are collected from the representative farmers' fields. This leads to moral hazard and interpretation and drawing of conclusions out of such data would have disastrous consequences. Therefore it envisaged to contain this moral hazard right at the time of collection of samplings by generating a unique soil sample ID through a mobile app with time and geo-stamp. The Soil Health Tracker on the Virtual Agri Services system is made accessible to fend users through icon called “Sample” in their respective dashboards. Upon a click/touch/press of this icon, user would be prompted to select the farmer, farm name and type of sample and prompted to either take geo-coordinates or capture photo along with geo-coordinates. Upon click/press/touch of save button, the mobile app generates a unique sample ID with built in data and time stamp.

[0039] With reference to FIG.3, it is mainly constituted by the Level-II players of the Virtual Agri Services system, wherein Level-II is further categorised into Level-IIA (106a,106b) and Level-IIB(110a,110b,110c,112,114a,114b).Level-IIA 106a,106b) comprises of players whose main role is to assess, refine and demonstrate the technology before it is being given to the farmers.

[0040] FIG.4 depicts Level-I players, who are mainly domain specialists and undertake research to explore conventional and cutting edge science for the sustainable crop production under varying agro-ecologies. They provide answers to the queries raised by the level-III players (farmers or farmer groups) via Level-II players.

[0041] In accordance with another non-limiting exemplary aspect of the invention, it facilitates the experts to advice the farmers for the problems in agriculture in an asynchronous mode of communication in text, voice and video based interface. It is envisaged to use the modern computation and telecommunication technologies to extend demand driven, situation, farm and user specific advisory to the disjointed and highly segregated users across various states.

[0042] Upon a click/touch/press of “Advices” button on the farmer's dash board, a data entry screen would be enabled to enter name of the farm, type of threat and other basic details in a very intuitive way without resorting to the physical type of entries such as selection from the dropdown list or voice/video recording of the problem. There is a facility to capture photo and geo-coordinates simultaneously. Upon the user doing this operation, a save and upload the request enables the user to raise the request and wait for advice. The expert advisors (106a,106b /108a, 108b,108c,108d), according to nature of specialization were tied to the users at the back end and the requests raised by the users would be automatically routed to the designated expert. The expert has the access to see and respond to the requests through web based dash board. Upon getting a request from the farmers, an alert would be generated in the dashboard of the respective expert, and upon click on respective request ID, the expert would be navigated to the user, farm and crop inventory to enable proper assessment of through an authenticated data on farm, crop, activities, observations and weather. The expert has the options to respond to the request either in text or voice or through face to face video interface. The expert after responding to the request for advisory has the option to post the response. Once the expert press/touch/click the post button, the response to the request would be routed the user and the user gets an SMS of such response on his mobile and an alert in the mobile app if the farmer has the access to a smart phone. The entire module is built on asynchronous mode to facilitate network throttle and facilitate effective usage of lag time of the expert and the farmers. Users also have to facility to request for face to face interface with the expert through Video over IP and virtual one to one or one to many online meetings.

[0043] Yet another exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to updating the knowledge and skill of farmers in the form of text, voice and video to enable the end users in online mode through web interface only. In order to facilitate updating the knowledge and skill of users and other farm based producers of various enterprises, the state-of-the-art technology in the form of text, voice and video is enable to the farmers in online mode through web interface only. Users during their lag and free time have access to various technologies to improve the performance of crops, livestock etc. in a more efficient way.

[0044] As depicted in FIG.3, Level-IIB players deal with the farm input aggregation(110a,110b,110c),farm output aggregation(112),and financial(114a) and insurance services(114b). Another exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is to facilitate the management of the input requirements by farm input aggregator(110a,110b,110c); enabling the direct interaction of the said end user with a plurality of input agencies(110b) or companies for an online price bargain on the same platform. To overcome the issue of high price, it is envisaged to aggregate the input requirements of all the isolated individual farms(104a,104b,104c) either at informal group level or at village, tehsil, district or state level and have a direct price bargain with either input dealers or the input companies to facilitate supply of farm inputs at affordable costs. This would pave the way for not only reducing the cost of cultivation and but also gives opportunity for higher returns from the farming.

[0045] Another non-limiting aspect of the present invention is the management of the output requirements by farm output aggregator(112); enabling the creation of a virtual online marketing platform. It is envisaged to create an online virtual marketing platform, where details like quality, quantity, price and periodicity of supply of future harvest of farm commodities are made visible to the prospective buyers to enable direct purchase of at reduced transactional costs and also without the interference of middle men.

[0046] According to yet another exemplary aspect of the present invention, the system enables direct submission of online application to at least one of the financial (114a) and insurance institutions(114b) with built in accountability and traceability. In order to overcome the problem of informal credit and give better access institutional credit, it is envisaged that the Virtual Agri Services Farm Financer (114a) enables the capital starved farmers(104) to submit online loan application either directly to a bank/financial institution (114a) or through recognized formal groups or organizations with much lesser requirements of collaterals. This would empower the farmers?(104) to gain confidence and use modern technology for increased productivity and returns. Users need to fill an online application through an entry screen and exercise option to select the financial institution through dropdown list and submit the application. The bank/financial institution(114a) on the other end gets access to verify the credentials vide farmer, farm and crop inventory to entail fulfilling the Know Your Customer norms. After ascertaining the credit worthiness, the bank would communicate the loan approval and credit the loan amount directly into the farmer’s savings account. Bank(114a) also gets access to monitor growth and performance individual loaner through a series of observations that are being periodically updated which would enable the bank to assess the financial health and suggest and midterm corrective actions.

[0047] The insurance agencies suffer from the infirmity of physical reach of the farmers to on- board them on to crop insurance. This entails expansion of insurance network in terms of establishment, manpower and infrastructure. To overcome the above infirmities, it is envisaged that the Virtual Agri Services system farm Insurer (114b) on-boards the farmers quickly and help the farmers to get coverage under the farm insurance.

[0048] Although the present disclosure has been described in terms of certain preferred embodiments and modifications to preferred embodiments may be possible that are within the principles and spirit of the invention. The above description and figures are therefore to be regarded as illustrative and not restrictive.

[0049] Thus the scope of the present disclosure is defined by the appended claims and includes both combinations and sub-combinations of the various features described herein above as well as variations and modifications thereof, which would occur to persons skilled in the art upon reading the foregoing description.

CLAIMS:

What is claimed is:
[1] A Virtual agri services system (102) based in at least a mobile communication device comprising of: downloading and installation of the specific application at the user end device terminal in text menu; facilitation of creation of an account and onboard of the end user(104) by providing his/her personal identification details; accepting various input data from the said end user(104) under different categories which are saved on a central cloud based server; devising of queries based on a plurality of external parameters; wherein the remote location of the said end user is identified using the Geo stamp by the said application(102); routing the query from the external cloud based server to a human expert/group (106a/108a,108b,108c,108d) for required analysis; generating a response to the said query in a plurality of voice or text or video modes; display of the said response at the said user end device terminal in text or voice or video form.

[2] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said application is farm-specific. (104a, 104b, 104c).

[3] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a unique identification code is assigned to the said end user (104) in order to validate the input data from the respective communication device.

[4] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a farm inventory represented by different icons is displayed on the data entry screen of the said communication device.

[5] A system as claimed in claims 1 and 4, wherein the said end user (104) uploads a query as guided by the menu.

[6] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application also entails the creation and onboard of various farm based enterprises (104d) and activities along with usage of inputs with cost in Enterprise Resource Planning mode to enable its efficient management.

[7] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the authenticity of the data during the surveillance of farm(104a,104b,104c) and enterprises(104d) through a plurality of online and offline modules in the form of scheduled observations and non-scheduled observations has been designed.

[8] A system as claimed in claims 1 and 7, further characterized in that, a comparison is enabled to measure the intensity of damage or quantify the identified problem with a pre-determined economic threshold levels.

[9] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application facilitates soil health
tracking.

[10] A system as claimed in claim 8, comprising the generation of a unique soil
sample ID, complimented with an image of the soil carrying the geo- coordinates in order to identify the location through the geo-stamp.

[11] A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the query posted by the end user (104) is sent to a human expert group (106a,106b /108a,108b,108c,108d) for analysis via the external cloud server.

[12]. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application facilitates crop life cycle
based expert advisory system.

[13] A system as claimed in claim 1, comprising of receiving the data through the said cloud server; analyzing the received data; formulating the necessary advice (106a,106b/108a, 108b,108c,108d) and sending the same to the said end user (104) via the external cloud server through asynchronous mode.

[14] A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the advisory response generated by the respective human expert group(106a,106b/108a,108b,108c,108d) may be received by the said end user in at least one of text, voice or video modes.

[15] A system as claimed in claim 1, which comprises of updating the knowledge (106a,106b) and skill of the said end user from time to time in at least one of text, voice or video modes.

[16] A system adapted in the said communication device comprising an inbuilt application facilitating the management of the input requirements by farm input aggregator(110a,110b,110c); enabling the direct interaction of the said end user with a plurality of input agencies(110b) or companies for an online price bargain on the same platform.

[17] A system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the said application further comprises of aggregation of the inputs of at least one of the individual farms(104a,104b,104c) or farmer groups (104) at a plurality of informal and formal levels.

[18] A system as claimed in claim 16, where the said application is further characterized in that, the aggregation of the inputs is saved on the external cloud server based on temporal and spatial hierarchies.

[19] A system adapted in the said communication device comprising an inbuilt application facilitating the management of the output requirements by farm output aggregator (112); enabling the creation of a virtual online marketing platform.

[20] A system as claimed in claim 19, wherein the said online marketing platform displays at least one of the required marketing parameters visible to the prospective buyers to enable direct purchase of the produce.

[21] A system adapted in the mobile communication device comprising of an in-built application which facilitates direct interaction of the end user with the financial institutions(114a).

[22] A system as claimed in claim 21, further characterized in that, it enables the
direct submission of an online loan application to the financial institutions(114a) either directly or through at least one of the recognized formal organizations with much lesser requirements of the collaterals.

[23] A system as claimed in claim 21, wherein the said financial institutions (114a) get easy access to monitor the financial health and thereby suggest midterm suggestive action.

[24] A system adapted in the mobile communication device comprising of an in-built application which provides for the crop performance based insurance through the direct interaction of the end user and the insurance provider (114b).

[25] A system as claimed in claim1, wherein the application facilitates the development of business intelligence for end users.

[26] A virtual agri services method comprising of: downloading and installation of the specific application at the user end device terminal in text menu; facilitation of creation of an account and onboard of the end user(104) by providing his/her personal identification details; accepting various input data from the said end user(104) under different categories which are saved on a central cloud based server; devising of queries based on a plurality of external parameters; wherein the remote location of the said end user is identified using the Geo stamp by the said application(102); routing the query from the external cloud based server to a human expert/group (106a/108a,108b,108c,108d) for required analysis; generating a response to the said query in a plurality of voice or text or video modes; display of the said response at the said user end device terminal in text or voice or video form.

ABSTRACT:
Virtual Agri Services system and method generally belongs to the field of information technology systems, more particularly, to a virtual agricultural service application to access rural information services and integrated management to support agriculture. The present innovation addresses the problem of spatial and temporal divide of farm, farmer and expert advisor and other players who are greatly disjointed by creating a robust virtual electronic network of various individual and institutional stake holders. Virtual Agri Services system is a virtual online application to enable smart agriculture through android based mobile interface and web interface, comprising of different modules namely,-Farmer and Farm Inventory, Agri-surveillance of pest, diseases, mites, nematodes, rodents, weeds and nutrient disorders, Soil Health Tracking, Life Cycle Based Expert Advisory through text, voice/video over IP, Online training, Farm Input Aggregator, Farm Output Aggregator, Farm Financier and Farm Insurer. It facilitates a life cycle based expert advisory system