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
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
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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