About
mFish is a mobile application that allows fishers in developing nations to digitally log their harvest. They receive access to information on weather, best practices, and market pricing when available. mFish Trace uses a blockchain solution, Fishcoin, that is developing incentives for fishers to use the app, exchanging key data elements for traceability for mobile top-ups.
mFish exists to create a data ecosystem and help address the inefficiencies and unsustainable practices within the fishing and aquaculture industry. This helps to prevent food waste, protect the livelihoods and wellbeing of fishers, and conserve commercially and ecologically important fish populations and their habitat.
Capability and features
Fishers use the browser based application to access education courses (best practices, stock status, data collection etc), catch/harvest logbook, market prices, weather forecast, and messenger services.
This equips them with best practice information and rewards producers for digitally logging their harvest with mobile top-ups.
NGOs can create content and use the Course Management System to educate fishers and fish farmers on best practices. They can also receive catch data from local fishers who are part of a fishery improvement project.
Governments can use mFish’s messenger for communicating directly with fishers, informing them about regulations, closures, gear restrictions etc. Governments can also receive data to get a better understanding of catch per unit effort for stock assessment, which improves their fisheries management plans.
Progress to date
To date, mFish has engaged over 16,000 fishers, and their application is available in over 30 countries in seven languages. mFish and Fishcoin are being piloted with Thai Union one of the largest seafood suppliers in the world, with pilots in the works with other producers in Alaska, Indonesia, Malaysia, Africa, Sri Lanka, and a leading sustainability brand in Mexico.
About
LenddoEFL’s mission is to provide 1 billion people fast and convenient access access to low cost, powerful financial products. They use AI, advanced analytics and behavioural data helping serve the underbanked people and small businesses in emerging markets.
LenddoEFL use new, alternative sources of data, such as psychometric assessments, mobile phone data, digital footprints and more. These can be used in place of traditional financial history to understand credit risk and identity verification.
Capability and features
LenddoEFL offers businesses a Software As A Service (SaaS) packages, improving the way financial institutions perform credit scoring and borrower verification. LenddoEFL integrate their API/button into their client’s applications, allowing them to on-board new borrowers and gather information. Thanks to LenndoEFL’s feature library, clients report increases f in portfolio size while maintaining risk levels, decreases in default without decreasing approvals, and a increases productivity due to efficiency gains and reduction in turnaround time. All of this adds up to significant return on investment, with ROI upwards of 1300% in some cases.
Progress to date
Lenddo have been recognised as one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies in Finance 2018, were the Grand Prize Winners at the 2017 MIT Financial Inclusion Challenge, and are a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
LenddoEFL have worked with over 50 leading financial institutions across 20 emerging markets and helped more than seven million people get access to financial services.
Lenddo have assisted over 5,000 farmers, and partner with FICO to reach emerging markets such as Russia, Turkey and India.
About
TaniFund is a crowdfunding platform for agricultural activities in Indonesia. TaniFund connects farmers with alternative financing from the broader public. Individuals and/or entities can choose to invest their fund into a cultivation project of their preference. TaniFund’s innovation is a solution for the unbankable smallholders farmers and, at the same time, benefits those with excessive funds with a profitable investment option.
Capability and features
TaniFund’s projects are exclusively for groups of farmers, not individuals. This approach allocates the responsibility to the group in keeping their farmer members in check (i.e. in microfinance, in repayment, whilst in TaniFund’s scheme, in ensuring levels of production).
Funds gathered from the public are not disbursed lump sum at the beginning of the project, unlike most banks and financial institutions, but weekly, according to the farmers needs. These amounts are calculated at the beginning—which then will be included in the prospectus—involving both the farmers and TaniFund’s team, before the project is even posted in TaniFund’s website. One uniqueness of TaniFund is that in this calculation, labor cost of the farmers are included so as to ensure that the farmers have a steady income, to cover their household expenditures.
The project period is designed as to provide more than one harvest, to anticipate any force majeures that can resulted in harvest failure. This is to keep the accountability in ensuring public’s funds invested in TaniFund’s projects. In the anticipation against agriculture practices that are prone to force majeures, is the diversification of projects’ location, so if half a hectare suffers a pest invasion, there is still half that can produce harvests.
The harvest produced from TaniFund projects is absorbed entirely by the marketplace TaniHub, and priced in accordance to TaniHub’s quality standard. This is a mitigation against price volatility in the market in the future (prices are agreed upon during the making of prospectus).
Progress to date
TaniFund has managed to crowdfund USD 1.5 million, distributed to 35 projects. TaniFund is the first winner of Mandiri Finspire and has crowdfunded over USD140,000 in less than 18 hours.
TaniFund has worked with over 855 farmers, and has partnerships with International Finance Corporation (IFC) and several Indonesian banks – channeling their loans to smallholder farmers.
TaniFund is working to incorporate climate smart practice into the projects, as to encourage resilience and climate adaptive practice in Indonesian agriculture landscape.
About
AgUnity is a global technology platform tackling the barriers to technology adoption in the last mile by providing these farmers with a smartphone and blockchain-based application solution, helping them to improve communication, access digital services, confidently transact with transparency and increase collaboration in the value chain.
Capability and features
The AgUnity app has been designed alongside the farmers who use it. The user interface utilizes geometric shapes and primary colors to make it accessible to those with low levels of literacy or digital skill, while the off-line capability means that farmers can reliably transact even when they do not have connectivity. Additionally, the proprietary operating system means that AgUnity can remotely update the app and add 3rd party digital services to the platform, which reduces the digital skill required for the user to operate the smartphone.
AgUnity is free for farmers. Revenues for AgUnity are generated from grants, third party royalties (e.g. solar lighting providers) and crop traceability data.
Progress to date
AgUnity has partnered with organizations including ADB, Fairtrade International, WFP, USAID and UNICEF to deliver this solution in eight different countries including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and Timor Leste. AgUnity has also been recognised for its innovative technology with 14 awards and prizes including the ‘Global Agripreneur of the Year’ in 2018 and Startup Avalanches global pitching competition in 2020.
In 2021, AgUnity was recognised as one of the 10 winners of the Women Enterprise Recovery Fund (WERF) for their work with women coffee farmers in Indonesia.
About
Green Way is a mobile app for farmers, traders and rural communities. It covers a range of crops and region-specific market prices and allows farmers to ask questions, with the option to attach photos, that are answered by verified agricultural experts.
Capability and features
Greenovator is an agritech company that launched its first app named Green Way, as a free-for-farmer mobile application in 2016. It was created to connect farmers with technicians for timely and high-quality answers to farmers’ questions and also access information on best farming practices. It has gradually evolved to also offer a tool to connect smallholder farmers with agricultural and livestock business stakeholders. The Green Way app is an independent, unique and inclusive platform in Myanmar providing digital connections with farmers, technicians, agri inputs businesses, traders and contract farming businesses. Moreover, it is now able to connect with consumers through a seller-buyers link featured through the Zaytangyi website.
Green Way is a free app to download and generates revenues from providing agricultural services such as consultancy, research and translations to INGOs, NGOs and enterprises.
Progress to date
As of late 2021, the Green Way app has 30,000 active monthly users and has been downloaded by over 280,000 farmers. Greenovator has partnerships with over 15 organizations including UNESCO, World Fish, LIFT, NZ Dairy, and so on. Greenovator also provides premium services to micro financiers.
A new feature of the Green Way app is Asein Yone Mat Tan (Asein meaning “green” and Mat Tan meaning “data”). It is the first digital farm management solution in Myanmar providing solutions for contract farming businesses.
The Asein Yone Mat Tan feature is the result of many research projects to find the best-fit solution for farmers, traders and contract farming organizations. With Asein Yone Mat Tan, farming timelines can be planned, farming activities recorded and this farming digital tool can help manage the farmers’ problems and track potential and actual yields and also provide traceability of the yields.
The development team created the Group Function, a place for users to start group discussions in a public or private setting for topics related to agriculture. It is aimed at strengthening existing networks and creating new networks of farmers with similar interests and goals.
About
neoInt is a traceability platform for agri-input manufacturers. While most solutions in the market only focus on product serialization, neoInt helps agribusiness professionals manage business processes related to Channel inventory and Channel Loyalty across the finished goods value chain: Factory->Warehouse(C&F)->Distributors/Dealers -> Retailer – >Farmer. The coupling of Channel Inventory and Channel Visibility creates a positive feedback loop between Agri-input firms and Channel Partners to provide transparency into their supply chains and distribution.
Capability and features
neoInt offer four intelligence modules:
1) Crop Production Intelligence Module to track hybrid seed production processes
2) Channel Intelligence Module to track channel inventory of agri-input products and run channel loyalty programs for retailers.
3) Field Marketing Intelligence module to track agents’ field marketing activities to farmers and channel partners such as dealers, distributors and retailers.
4) Market Research Intelligence to understand distribution structures, competitive intelligence.
Progress to date
To date, over 3 million farmers have been impacted by neoInt’s “B2B2F” application.
neoInt has been recognised as a top rated product by Bayer, Frost & Sullivan and Business Today
About
Farmforce is a cloud-hosted web and mobile platform enabling transparency and digital management in the first mile of agricultural value chains. Launched in Nairobi, Kenya in 2012, Farmforce supports companies and organizations to understand where their products originate and how they were grown. Clients manage their strategic sourcing partnerships with smallholder farmers to alleviate pain points and drive supply chain sustainability.
Capability and features
Farmforce provides digital traceability in procurement from over 250,000 smallholder farmers along 30+ agricultural supply chains. This mobile technology solution replaces existing paper-based processes and thereby provide traceability to the field level. This visibility provides actionable information for management while providing transparency and document compliance with any food and sustainability standards (Global G.A.P., Rainforest Alliance, Organic, FSMA) to simplify audits.
Progress to date
Farmforce has been used by over 500,000 farmers across 25 countries. It has successfully deployed a barcode based traceability to over 25,000 cocoa farmers, and is available in 14 languages.
The team are currently working on a diagnostic system for plant diseases and partial automation of certification auditing.
About
TaroWorks is a mobile software platform for managing field staff, business operations, and data collection in emerging markets. The two-part solution includes an Android app for field extension officers and a back-end app running on Salesforce.com for data management, analysis, business process creation and user administration. These features work in the most rural parts of the world with no connectivity, empowering field staff to create, edit, read/use data out of the Salesforce platform.
Capability and features
The application will allow the user to geo-tag a specific location offline, take photos (e.g. of farmer beneficiaries), capture signatures and allow for barcode/QR code scanning (e.g. for tracking products). Additionally, TaroWorks can serve as part of the intervention to beneficiaries by allowing mobilie users to show training videos, agricultural best practices guides, etc.
Progress to date
TaroWorks have over 60 clients operating all over the world in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and have helped multiple clients expand from one country of operation to different emerging markets in other parts of the world.
Lutheran World Relief is using TaroWorks to help estimate farmer crop yields and supply the information to unions. This increases transparency along the value chain so that farmers can negotiate better pricing on their crops and boost their incomes.
TaroWorks is developing extensions of the TaroWorks mobile application, adding functionality around procurement of products, inventory management, sales orders and mobile money integration.
About
The agriculture industry often faces issues with lack of transparency, management, labour problems etc. Drones for Agriculture are using aerial analytics and automation to solve key issues. First, drones are used to quickly map a large area of a plantation, then proprietary algorithms are used to analyse the crops for health. Finally, autonomous spraying drones perform targeted spraying on affected areas. Plantation owners also have a copy of the land map for management purposes to streamline operations.
Capability and features
Poladrone’s proprietary algorithms allow users to quickly and accurately derive useful information from images captured, such as accurate oil palm count, categorisation, health, roads, infrastructure, rivers, etc. These algorithms help to streamline the analytics process which is traditionally a very manual process.
Poladrone has its own agriculture spraying drone locally in Malaysia, allowing them to provide superior after sales services and support to our customers.
Progress to date
To date, Poladrone have mapped over 150,000 acres of plantations, won Echelon Asia 2017 and have been appointed as DJI Enterprise and Sentera dealers.
Poladrone have a partnership with Microsoft, co-develop AI solutions with their engineering team, as well as a R&D partnership with University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia’s largest and only university dedicated towards agriculture.
The team are currently build a spraying drone which is able to perform targeted spraying automatically on oil palm.
About
Pessl Instruments GmbH (Pessl), an Austrian AgTech company, aims to improve the climate resilience of smallholder Filipino farmers through a public private partnership called “Improving Productivity in Agriculture through Climate-Smart Technology” or ImPACT. Pessl has deployed over 32 proprietary agro-meteorological IoT devices that enable farmers to adopt Climate-Smart Agriculture in their daily farming activities. These devices autonomously measure and transmit environmental data, which is processed and delivered to farmers in the via a simplified mobile application. Farmers are able to use this data to reduce their chemical footprint and improve their yield.
Capability and features
ImPACT allows farmers to monitor all relevant climatic conditions and soil parameters, bringing their agricultural work management one step higher. ImPACT combines monitored and forecasted data to get a powerful tool, which optimizes production and lets farmers produce more with less.
With the help of climatic and soil monitoring and forecasting farmers can:
Progress to date
ImPACT has reduced the input usage of farmers, enabling more precise documentation of farmers’ daily activity and improved crop yields.
ImPACT have worked with a control group of 100 farmers, expanding to 5,000 farmers in 2019 and 10,000 farmers by 2020.
Deployment will be made sustainable through a service model, e.g. farmers pay $1 per month for the application and are therefore able to save money on chemicals and increase their incomes.
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