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
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.
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