What is MIS?
The Market Price Information System (MIS) is a voice-based system that provides market price information in English and five local languages: Wollof, Mandinka, Fula, Jola, and Serehuleh. It consists of two main modules: the data collection module and the data dissemination module. The data collection module uses an Android mobile app and a web interface for inputting market prices, requiring literate users. The dissemination module utilizes a cloud PBX to handle incoming calls from subscribers, providing market prices for specified crops, markets, and languages based on the caller's registration details.
MIS now covers 29 markets across the country and provides prices for 29 crops and commodities, including tomato, onion, cabbage, hot pepper, big pepper, okra, sweet pepper, egg plant, bitter tomato, sweet potato, cowpea, roselle, amaranth, local rice, maize, early millet, late millet, broken rice imported, long grain rice imported, lettuce, wonjo hibiscus leaves, imported onion, tomatoes small size, carrot, cassava, Irish potatoes, lemon, banana, and decorticated groundnut.
Overall objective: To enable vegetable producers, particularly women, to have affordable and sustainable market price information, climate advisory information, and business service development support to improve agricultural production and productivity.
Ways to Register
- People or farmers in the regions who wish to register can contact the marketing federation in their regions.
- The public can also register by using the registration link and submitting the form.
- Those who also wish to register can call or send SMS to the MIS Support number 3695000.
How to access the Market Price Information
- Voice Call - Registered users can access the latest market prices by making a phone call to the MIS number 3000021.
- WhatsApp Chatbot - Registered users can also use WhatsApp to access market prices by sending a message to the MIS WhatsApp number 7304370.
Climate component
The MIS also includes a climate information component to disseminate voice-based climate information to farmers in local languages.
How the System Works: Initially, garden members across the country identified their facilitators and the profiles of those facilitators were recorded. The facilitators specified the crops, markets, and language they wanted to use to communicate with the system. Their information was then entered into the system. Market price collectors go to their designated markets on a weekly basis and send the latest market prices to the system through the mobile app and web tools. Facilitators can call the system at any time to hear current market prices, and garden members can also use their facilitators to access this information.