Farm.ink is a social enterprise with a mission to improve the profitability of smallholder farmers in East Africa and beyond. They do this by building innovative technology solutions to increase market access, improve transparency and encourage responsible trading practices.
They build technology to help farmers share information and connect with each other.
WHAT THEY DO
All of their technology is developed in-house. They work hand-in-hand with the local digital farming community to understand the solutions that they need.
Their technology combines digital groups with chatbots to provide an accessible, scalable channel. Over 1 million messages are sent and received through their chatbots every month.
Better access to information means better decision making. Type farming question into the Africa Farmers Club chatbot and instantly search 1000s of farmer questions and answers.
They build natural language processing algorithms to find and analyse social farming data.