CSIR-Aroma—an Android app for information on aromatic crops and advisory digital tool for farmers and entrepreneurs.
This app provides information on the aromatic crops covered under the CSIR-Aroma mission which includes crop cultivation, harvesting, yield, quality, popular varieties and distillation processes. Pest and disease-related information, along with their symptoms and management has also been provided. The farmers can interact with scientists to obtain any scientific advice related to their crops especially disease and pest information. Geocoded aroma cluster details have been provided for each crop. Information related to the products that are developed under the aroma mission has been provided for industry and entrepreneurs. A market platform has also been provided so that registered buyers and sellers can contact each other. The locations of the distillation unit’s have been provided, which will be very helpful for the farmers to distil their produce from nearby distillation units.