Mr. Santosh Khawale
Dhenoo.
Business Summary
We have built a unique digital platform specifically targeting dairy farmers and their needs. Product provides free access to the knowledge related to dairy farming, best practices, and network of experts, fellow farmers. Following modules are incorporated in the digital platform serving the stakeholders on various aspects.
- Knowledge Sharing
- Forum
- Farm Management
The Entrepreneur:Mr. Santosh Khawale
Santosh is a Strategic Designer and Innovation Consultant focused on developing solutions for companies using strategic design approach. His professional work experience of 10+ years dwells into Industry, Academia and NGO’s.
Challenges in Agriculture:
- There are well-known challenges faced in food and agriculture sector and there are future challenges due to forecasted population growth across the globe.
- Digital divide between farmers and outside world is affecting badly and hampering growth of agriculture sector.
- Indian farmers specifically don’t have access to advancement in agriculture; hence there is dependent traditional knowledge-base. They have insufficient information that lead to wrong decision, and failure in managing their farm.
- Farmer doesn’t have access to formal training to manage their farm. Government policies and schemes are not sufficient to fulfil the gap.
Our Solution:
- Dhenoo is establishing a ‘digital agriculture ecosystem’ by building a digital platform and facilitating environment for innovation, collaboration, co-creation and sharing for farmers and agripreneurs.
- Company is focused on digital literacy, for rural populations and making technology available for every farmer to ensure his growth, increased profitability, knowledge enhancement, updated information.
Our Product:
- To start with, we are building a unique digital platform specifically targeting dairy farmers and their needs.
- Product provides free access to the knowledge related to dairy farming, best practices, and network of experts, fellow farmers.
- Product by virtue of its digital technology delivers the certified courses, training and workshops.
- It seamlessly on boards all farmers irrespective of their language and geographical barrier.
- Product enables the state of the art tracking and monitoring system for a farmers and also important alarms and notifications.