E-AgriBusiness is a platform comprising a variety of applications including one for linking actors in the agricultural sector, credit, insurance and savings. The said platform is intended as a place of exchange, innovation, intermediation and promotion of food products in Africa. It allows farmers in particular and all actors in the agricultural value chain in general to interact. Thus, through their actions, they can promote and market their products in order to allow agriculture in all regions to be accessible to all stakeholders in the national territory.
e-agribusiness is a platform for connecting actors in the agricultural sector. On the one hand, it allows Farmers (including the most vulnerable) living in the most remote areas and having neither the Internet nor smartphones to find new outlets for their productions on local, regional and international markets, and on the other hand provides buyers with relevant information to facilitate their purchases. The same system makes it possible to receive advice from experts on new farming methods and the weather by SMS to avoid the risks associated with climatic hazards during the production stage.
How it works?
- Any farmer can subscribe to the service and pay for their publications via mobile money
- Any buyer can subscribe to the service to receive notification
- The farmer publishes his harvest (tonnage, price…) using one of the available channels
- Posts are moderated, then accepted or not
Features
- Recording of recorders
- Publication of offers by: SMS, USSD, web, mobile, call center in local language
- Moderation with acceptance or refusal of offers: e-agribusiness website
- Distribution of offers: E-agribusiness website, social networks, TV, radio, LED panels
- SMS weather service
- Advice to farmers by SMS and by voice via our experts
- Notification to subscribers (SMS, email)
- Search engine on the E-agribusiness website (localities, availability and price of products, mapping of availability by product, etc.)
Advantages
For the sector: promotion of actors and products
For farmers:
- Reduction of crop losses
- Sale at the right price
- Technological and financial inclusion
- Increased income and improved living conditions
For buyers
- Better targeting (geographical areas, available stocks, prices, reliable contacts)
- Facilitation of purchases
For States/development partners:
- Support for the implementation of agricultural policies
- Provision of relevant indicators
- Support for financial inclusion
- Help to reduce poverty
The largest agricultural market in Africa
e-agribusiness provides farmers in remote areas with easy-to-use tools based on GSM and voice-activated telephones in local languages to manage and grow their activities by having access to the same functionalities that users of areas covered by the internet in order to reduce the digital divide
Our custom-designed weather service allows, for example, to take the GPS coordinates of their fields and provide them with the weather forecast by SMS for the next 10 days through satellite weather stations that are 90% reliable.