Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness Project

EDMC's second year brought in spectacular grantees who combined 2 or more of the project's target sectors in order to efficiently increase market competitiveness and promote enterprise development. Of these, eAgro most definitely makes a clear statement and brings modern methods to an old profession by combining the world of agriculture with the world of technology.

E-agro is a web-based marketplace for agricultural commodities and services, available both online (www.eagro.am) and via mobile phone. It is aimed at promoting economic development and increasing the competitiveness of rural entrepreneurs and food-processing SMEs through creating new marketing opportunities, providing tools for smart farming and offering cost-optimization mechanisms.

The cornerstone of the E-agro project is the eagro.am portal, which was launched in June 2013 by the Microsoft Innovation Center Armenia with the support of the Government of Armenia. From October 2013 – March 2014, with the support of the USAID Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness project, a number of critical developments will be introduced in the portal for it to become a comprehensive farming, sales, and marketing tool for farmers and agro-processing companies in Armenia. The EDMC grant will assist with the final stages of programming, testing and overall set-up of this new tool and all of its services.

Presented here are small examples of what such systems can accomplish for a simple village farmer who makes a business out of the land he tills all day.

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