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52% of the employed people in Sub-Saharan Africa are active in agriculture

However, majority of them are still struggling with these 3 deeply interrelated problems: productivity, earning meaningful income and fighting climate change.

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Smallholder farmers in developing communities are facing more challenges

They have to battle climate change, low rates of productivity, lack of high-returns market access, and 60% of their losses are due to lack of the right technologies.

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What We Offer

FarmTech in a Nutshell

Digital Advisory
Farming Videos

"Accessing proper farming information is a big problem"

A Farmer in Western Kenya

"Lack of adequate extension services is the main challenge affecting agriculture in Kenya"

Robin Achoki
Former Chairman, KEPHIS

Rain is not the limiting factor in agriculture, lack of basic agricultural knowledge is.

Prof. Hamadi Iddi Boga
Vice President for Program Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA

"Innovations such as Web3, the third generation of the internet, and easy-to-use video-based technologies in local languages have the potential to drive change in agriculture in developing countries"

SciDev.Net

"Small holder farmers in Kenya and Africa in general are in dire stress due to low farm yields and unstable market prices. The only ways is to show them how to cut cost of production, provide stable and remunerable market access and improve price realization or increase yields."

James Nderui
Head of Business, Riari Agri Hub

"The shortage of extension services remains a significant challenge for farmers in Kenya, aggravated by a declining number of agricultural officers recruited by the government."

Sammy Waweru
Agriculture Journalist, Daily Nation, Kenya

"Extension provision in developing economies remains low for both women and men, and women tend tomake less use than men of extension services."

FAO


The Problem

What are we Solving?

In Kenya and Africa at large, smallholder farmers face a myriad of challenges around productivity, market access and climate change.

In Kenya, for example, farmers have highly limited access to extension officers with the current ratio at 1:1800 farmers, far below the recommended 1:400 by FAO.

Moreover, there is low awareness and poor adoption of climate-smart farming and modern farming technologies greatly caused by low knowledge levels among farmers who have few training opportunities.

Directly related to production is market access, where farmers are limited to selling their produce to local markets and traders who exploit them with low farm gate prices.

These problems have made Kenyan and African farmers economically disempowered, with climate change worsening the situation. This is as the continent continues to be malnourished and food insecure.

OUR SOLUTION

Introducing FarmHub

To contribute to solving this interconnected problem of productivity, market access and climate change, we are developing FarmHub.

FarmHub is a mobile app that provides farmers with digital advisory services through personalised e-extension and farming videos.

Digital Advisory

FarmHelp provides digital advisory where a farmer can ask questions by sharing photos and videos from the farm and they receive same-day responses from experienced extension officers located in a central office.
With this model, one extension officer can serve up to 120 farmers in a day, which is not achievable with the current farm-to-farm visit model.
Our model also greatly improves the extension- officer-to-farmer ratio from the current 1:1800 to 1:250.

Farming Videos

FarmVideos provides educational videos on climate-smart farming, correct application of farm inputs, emerging and affordable farming technologies, and agribusiness lessons.

Making Farming Easier!

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Digital Advisory

FarmHelp

Digital advisory where a farmer can ask questions by sharing photos and videos from the farm.

Farming Videos

FarmVideos

Educational videos on climate smart farming, correct application of farm inputs, emerging and affordable farming technologies, and agribusiness lessons.

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