iFPO

  • iFPO (spoke with Abhijeet Gupta Oct 28 2020, product video)

    • Member management including ID card and share certificate

    • Accounting system, less complicated than tally, share data with lending institutions 

    • Farmer app to track parameters of farm, what is being grown, etc. 

    • Works online / offline, used on desktop and mobile

    • "gram to home": show FPO stocks to market; Currently B2B want to open B2C eventually

    • Users can send whatsapp messages this info gets loaded to portal

    • FPO can list assets available for rent: farm equipment/machinery or warehouse space

    • maintenance fee is 6k per FPO

    • generate eway bills and GST filing reports

    • FPO network for comms between FPOs that are using the tool

    • Challenges: ease of use, local languages

    • Ifpo being used “across the country” incl 50 nabard related FPOs in Karnataka

    • Karabi works on digitization and data integration across domains. Built web portal for NABARD, used by 4300 FPOs (1mn farmers) to capture share details and manage comms between FPOs and NABARD