FarmAI

About
ListenField’s mission is to provide comprehensive farming solutions that can significantly cut costs, enhance yield quality and stabilize yields, using their API precision farming technology platform. Their mobile app, FarmAI, uses IoT integration, predictive analytics for climate and crop growth, and analysis of satellite imagery to give farmers actionable data for decision-making in every step of the farming process.

Capability and features
ListenField’s core technology empowers their clients to:ListenField’s mission is to provide comprehensive farming solutions that can significantly cut costs, enhance yield quality and stabilize yields, using their API precision farming technology platform. Their mobile app, FarmAI, uses IoT integration, predictive analytics for climate and crop growth, and analysis of satellite imagery to give farmers actionable data for decision-making in every step of the farming process.

ListenField’s core technology empowers their clients to:

1. Significantly cut the cost of obtaining highly accurate field surveys with advanced field insight technology
2. Use predictive analytics data to determine optimal planting and harvesting dates, identify phenological stages, and economize on the use of inputs
3. Access AI models that help anticipate pest infestations. Their technology platform provides field insights from below and above ground and from satellite imagery, for accurate and timely monitoring of yield performance and risks
4. Produce crops with superior quality characteristics eg. sweetness, protein and amylose content. This will be achieved through their AI and crop modelling combined with phenology and genotype selection.

ListenField’s goal is to enable farming communities to construct a business intelligence dashboard, derived from ListenField’s comprehensive and automated digitized database. This dashboard will help monitor crop health, anticipate weather patterns and assess as well as predict crop yield and productivity. This platform will help farming communities manage and monitor their output and crop quality in a timely and cost-effective manner. Their technology will also facilitate inspections to obtain third-party sustainability certifications, which have considerable commercial value for farmers.

Progress to date
To date, FarmAI is being used by about 30,000 farmers in Thailand, directly and through their clients. ListenField was one of the finalists of the 2019 SEED Low Carbon Award, which is supported by UNDP and UNEP, and has partnerships with several organic farming communities and the Bank of Thailand.

The IFC has also selected ListenField as a partner for a project involving rice-farming communities in Vietnam. The project is also being supported by Angel’s Fine Foods, an Australian distributor of gourmet food products