Mobile Apps: Potential ICT tools to disseminate technologies on value addition of mango, guava and aonla fruits
Mobile apps for technology dissemination
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21921/jas.v8i01.19568Abstract
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.
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Aonla Processed Products (in Hindi):
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Raw Mango Products ( in English) : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_harish70_patel.Raw_Mango_Product_English&hl=en
Raw Mango Products (Hindi): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_harish70_patel.AamKeUtpaad_New&hl=en
Ripe Mango Products ( in English) : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_harish70_patel.Ripe_Mango_Products_English&hl=en
Ripe Mango Products (Hindi) : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_harish70_patel.Pake_Aam_Ke_Utpaad&hl=en
