About
Golden Paddy offers real-time, specific and accurate productivity advice, connection to better buyers with better prices and terms, and connection to formal lenders with better rates and terms. All services are free for farmers, with Golden Paddy generating revenue from lead generation, advertisements, data insights and transactions.
Users avoid crop loss with timely and precise advice, receive better prices for their crops and pay less for customized loans.
Capability and features
As many farmers now have a smartphone and basic digital literacy, Golden Paddy has been developed as a mobile app based platform that provides services to the smallholders.
Impact Terra is utilizing its proprietary Crop Recommendation Engine (crop simulation models), Remote Sensing Engine (large scale crop growth and risk insights) and big-data platform to provide advanced services at scale to farmers and third parties.
MFIs and financiers use the loan origination services and credit scoring engine to make data-informed loan assessments. Agribusinesses use the platform to advertise and collect data. Non-profits use the platform to provide extension support to farmers.
Progress to date
Golden Paddy has gone from a mobile application to recommendation engine and satellite platform, and has raised over USD$3m to date. The platform has over 50,000 registered farmers, whilst securing strategic long-term partnerships across agronomy, technology, satellite insights, big-data, and financial services.
Golden Paddy is currently developing four technologies; their website and mobile app, crop simulation/prediction models, remote sensing models and an analytics platform.
About
GREENCoffee provides real time, 24/7 information, tailored to farmers and B2B partners in Vietnam. By using smart communication and information tools (e.g. smartphones, SMS, web portal) that integrate important data, farmers have access to relevant information products.
For example, a farmer receives frequent updates through personalised SMS, such as weather forecasts and seasonal predictions.
Capability and features
GREENCoffee is an information service – a multi-component (smartphone, SMS, web portal), farmer and B2B oriented information service that supports coffee cultivation in the central highland provinces of Vietnam.
GREENCoffee is engaging over 100,000 smallholder farmers to support their coffee cultivation practices and improve livelihoods.
GREENCoffee Information Services provides (on-request) tailored data analysis, information products and advice that support B2B partners to meet environmental guidelines and sustainable production criteria.
Progress to date
GREENCoffee has over 10,000 farmers currently using the platform, and is launching a social enterprise that will take over operations in 2019. The business will generate its own income through a farmer subscription model, as well as generating fees from B2B partnerships.
About
Koltiva is a “Farmer First” agritech firm utilizing proprietary technologies and services to enhance global supply chain traceability, inclusiveness, and sustainability. Koltiva serves both farmers and multinationals to create more sustainable and transparent supply chains. Koltiva aims to solve the “triple challenge” of increasing smallholder farmer incomes, enhancing environmental protection, and improving trade transparency.
Headquartered in Switzerland but with its roots in emerging markets, Koltiva is active in 17 countries. Koltiva’s competitive advantage continues to be the combination of proprietary technologies (agritech, fintech, climate tech) and “boots on the ground” services (KoltiSkills).
Capability and Features
Koltiva has long-standing experience working with the private and public sector to provide extension services and capacity building to smallholder farmers, and development of software solutions across more than 20 smallholder farming commodities and aquaculture. Koltiva’s end-to-end software and service ecosystem include:
KoltiTrace – SaaS web and mobile solutions, including GIS for land use analysis and IoT for every actor along rural and global supply chains. KoltiTrace contains KoltiTrace MIS, a Management Information System from seed to table, KoltiTrace CRM, a KPI and Event Management solution for member-based organizations, and KoltiTrace ERP, an Enterprise Resource Planning System for responsible businesses.
KoltiTrade – disrupts traditional trade systems from agri-inputs to commodities using technology. Physical movement of high-quality farm inputs and single origin trading of sustainable farm produce. This includes a mobile app for agri-input shops and an e-commerce platform for sustainable and traceable consumer products.
KoltiSkills – a ‘Boots on the Ground’ platform for extension services for farmer mapping, farm inspections, training and coaching, and verifications.
KoltiPay – an integrated fintech platform for responsible access to finance and payments.
Progress to date
As of the end of January 2022, Koltiva has 412,444 registered farmers and producers with 102,017 farmers currently active in responsibly-sourced supply chains.
Koltiva works with 4,921 SMEs and MNEs registered on its platforms across 24 different agriculture commodities along global supply chains, from input suppliers to manufacturers and retailers. More than 1 million eProcurement seed to table transactions with over US$193 million product value have been recorded in KoltiTrace applications, benefitting smallholder farmers with additional US$10 million in traceability and crop quality premiums.
KoltiPay has been launched in Indonesia to cocoa farmers and the first several hundreds of digital payments for fully transparent procurement transactions have been realized, including the first 200 smallholder farmers have received fully digitalized agri-input loans.
About
Htwet Toe is a simple and easy-to-use mobile platform that helps agricultural communities in Myanmar by providing professional advice, solutions and services to increase yield and productivity. Htwet Toe has partnered with companies such as Myanma Awba Group and TerraSphere, to create a platform where farmers and agricultural communities can readily access a wide spectrum of content to help improve harvest yields, achieve better selling prices and build a strong agricultural community.
Capability and features
Htwet Toe contains comprehensive farming guides for more than 35 domestic crops and assists farmers with various aspects of farming from seed selection to harvesting and selling their produce. The application provides farmers with localized crop prices to use as a benchmark to negotiate with middlemen. Farmers can send in recorded voice messages and receive a response within 12 hours from trained agronomists. Htwet Toe generates contextualized agro-meteorological advisories for farmers based on their geodata, crop data and satellite weather data and produces action plans to optimize farm productivity. Htwet Toe also contains an e-commerce platform where farmers can search, browse and order selected input products directly to their farm.
Htwet Toe’s digital community feature gathers farmers and different supply chain players in forums where they can connect with one another, exchange ideas and conduct business transactions.
The platform’s Q&A section allows farmers to interact and communicate with trained agronomists in near real-time to get timely advice. Farmers can also test their knowledge on different aspects of farming by participating in daily quizzes and winning rewards.
Hwet Toe is a free app and generates revenue through advertising, e-commerce, partnerships with agribusinesses, social enterprises and INGOs, loyalty programs, sales lead generation, and its Village Link Satellite Service (VLSS) – the company’s B2B platform providing remote-sensing data for agribusiness clients.
Progress to date
Htwet Toe provides value and services to more than 400,000 Myanmar farmers and continues to be one of the most used agriculture apps in the country, with around 46,000 monthly active users, as of early 2022.
The agronomists at Htwet Toe have answered more than 100,000 specific questions, helping farmers to solve problems and improve yields. The dedicated team at Htwet Toe continues to connect with farmers via-mobile and on-ground, having conducted over 110 field training exercises that have benefitted 5,500 farmers and extension workers across Myanmar in 2018-2020.
The company aims to reach 1 million farming families and food producers, most of them smallholder farmers.
Htwet Toe has partnered with companies and NGOs including Myanma Awba Group, Maha Agriculture, Mercy Corps, Misui Co, Care Myanmar, WWF, SarVision, Terrasphere and Weather Impact.
About
SIPINDO is an application that solves a wide range of common smallholder farmer challenges, helping them increase their incomes through shared information about their crop performance to supply chain actors from upstream to downstream. The application is used by farmers, buyer – consumer and agriculture practitioners and also support ±150 field officers of EWINDO, giving everyone access to fast, efficient solutions to agronomic challenges.
Buyers use SIPINDO’s search functionality to find and contact farmers directly, which increasesmarket volumes of farmer products and benefits both parties.
Capability and features
SIPINDO’s application allows smallholder farmers to directly contact their colleagues in other regions, research prices and trends in demand for commodities on the market, find procedures for handling pests and diseases, discover cropping patterns and estimated harvest time.
The platform helps farmersestimate their production, as well as selling harvests directly to buyers, avoiding the price games of middlemen.
Farmers can also find out the level of soil fertility to be more efficient in using fertilizer in their specific location while apps also supporting climate data trend for assisting farmers on weather forecast.
Progress to date
To date, SIPINDO has worked with over 20,000 farmers, and has collaborated with PRISMA, Netherlands Space Office (NSO), ICCO Cooperation, Bogor Agriculture University, University of Twentee (UT-ITC), Nelen & Schuurmans, and AKVO.
The platform will soon feature more accurate daily weather forecasts, irrigation advice, advanced pest and disease (chemical and non-chemical management option), enabling farmers to maximise their yields and incomes.
About
SimpleAgri was launched in 2016 by a team of Agricultural IT specialists with a combined 60+ years of global agriculture experience and a deep passion for sustainable farming and small landholders.
SimpleAgri digitizes farm management through capturing the day to day operational processes giving full transparency and traceability that then enables landholders to make incremental changes for improving productivity, worker safety, quality and produce yields.
SimpleAgri focuses on supporting small landholders and farmers in low-socioeconomic regions working through Industry Bodies, NGO’s, Government Bodies and Co-operatives/clusters to help improve land management practices and their long-term commercial sustainability.
Capability and features
SimpleAgri provides secure private mobile and web access that give landholders secure private access to a landholder’s farming operation. The platform can be integrated to external ERP take data feeds and IoT devices. The geo-spatial capability has a built-in mapping engine which allows drill down features over the common mapping platforms.
Operators are able to replicate any operational activity related to the land or their farming/plantation business. This basic foundation provides landholders with the power to create do forecasts, and budgets, manage farm inputs (materials, labour, equipment) and monitor /adjust the day to day operations based on the actual results. In capturing processes, SimpleAgri assists landholders to be pro-active in the assessment of the impact of their decisions and to make changes that focus on improvements to yield, quality and workers safety through i changes in work practices, innovation and education.
The application is deployed in three packages: i) Multi-nationals and Co-Operatives, ii) Enterprise and Business and as iii) an Industry Platform which is intended for use in specific agri-sectors by Industry Bodies and NGO’s to operate as an industry landbank and platform for collaboration that is free for use to small landholders and farmers .
Progress to date
SimpleAgri has customers in Colombia, Thailand and Malaysia covering tea, sugar, oil palm, rice, various fruits and flowers.
In 2018, SimpleAgri rolled out project servicing 650+ small landholders of passionfruit and physalis fruit. The project will be expanded to Peru and Ecuador to assist 2500 + small landholders.
The Agronomist Workbench and enhancements for group/cluster management are currently in development.
The platform is GIS enabled with a drone plug-in coming that will allow drone data to be stored within SimpleAgri and overlayed with SimpleAgri operational and sample information. The platform will also support blockchain for external supplier and trade portals.
About
MyCrop is a technology enabled initiative that empowers farmers through “Farmer Mitras” (village level entrepreneurs). MyCrop delivers information, expertise and resources that increase their productivity and profitability.
MyCrop provides farmers with geo-mapping, individual farm plans and farm automation customized to weather, soil, pest, crop data a on near real-time basis.
This flexible technology platform serves as a one-stop solution for farmers, delivering all resources at their doorsteps and providing near real-time actionable insights customized for each farmer.
10% of farmers use the technology on their smartphones, whereas the other 90% benefit from the Farmer Mitras who assist them in using the application.
Capability and features
The MyCrop platform consists of two mobile/tab applications and a web-based dashboard.
It has a sustainable data-driven, scalable, self-learning Agri-food system which serves as a farm/farmer management solution, predictive analytics & monitoring tool, decision support system & agriculture e-commerce platform enabling a farmer to reduce the cost of cultivation, increase yield & ensure the better realization of the finished product.
The platform is an enabler for agriculture ecosystem players, providing them last mile access to farmers to deliver their offerings more economically and efficiently.
MyCrop is free for farmers, generating revenue from input companies and banks who benefit from improved data-driven decision making.
Progress to date
MyCrop has been honored as a Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum, recognised as “Best Startup for ICT in Agriculture” by ICFA, and is currently working with more than 4,000 farmers in India & Indonesia with more than 30 Farmer Mitras.
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