One Million Farmer

Advisory and Information for Agricultural Productivity

This theme covers extension services and Climate Smart Agriculture advisory, as well as the delivery of credible and actionable information in real-time directly to Kenyan farmers to increase productivity. This will help them transition from time, labor, input and resource-intensive practices to more efficient and sustainable planning, production, and management systems.

DigiCow

A mobile-based service delivery platform enabling vet service providers to digitize their work with farmers, allowing for data-driven decisions. The platform also supports e-extension, enabling farmers to adopt technologies and link them to input suppliers, aggregating demand as a business enterprise and significantly increasing milk productivity.

Kuza Biashara

Curates and incubates youth Agripreneurs and equips them with portable digital kits to offer bundled services like extension, inputs, mechanization, and aggregation services to smallholder farmers to increase their productivity and income.

Hello Tractor

Provides technology IoT hardware and software for tractor owners to better manage their equipment, fuel, and operators while servicing smallholder farmers in need of mechanization services resulting in an increase in crop productivity.

Shamba Pride

Combines a franchise model, technology and village youth agents to bridge inputs, services and information gaps among rural smallholder farmers.

SunCulture

Develops and offers solar-powered smart irrigation systems

Precision Agriculture

Reaches farmers with personalized agricultural advice through their mobile phones

Aquarech

Uses a mobile-based service delivery platform linking fish farmers to feed suppliers and markets which aggregates demand as a business enterprise resulting in a significant increase in productivity.

EzyAgric

EzyAgric provides a digital marketplace for genuine agro-inputs, reliable extension content and services, financial services, and profitable markets to farmers and agro-vets at the comfort of their farms/shops.

Market Linkages

Looks at tools to help Kenyan farmers produce high quality, high yield crops as well as help link them to markets, including digital platforms to sell farm produce.

M-Shamba

A digital extension platform that uses interactive voice response services to extend and transfer agricultural technologies to smallholder farmers.

Farmshine

A digital platform that connects farmers with information, suppliers and service providers they need to help them access the markets.

Farmer Financial Inclusion

It focuses on innovators, organizations and businesses that link Kenyan farmers to credit and savings products, insurance, and other innovative financial services, enabling them to invest in their farms.

Amtech

An agri-tech company that offers loans to small-scale farmers who are registered in groups through credit scoring enabling them access other services.

Apollo Agriculture

An agri-tech company that helps small-scale farmers maximize profits by bundling services such as financing, farm inputs, advice, insurance and market access.

agriBORA

Makes smallholder farmers visible, bankable and accessible by offering farmer groups access to technology to support their production activities through tools for data.

ACRE Africa

An insure-tech company that provides farmers with crop and livestock, index and other insurance products to shield them against unpredictable weather conditions.

Farmerline

A social enterprise that develops solutions to increase farmers’ access to resources and income. We do this by leveraging innovative financing, technology and a network of partners to help farmers increase yield and make more profit

Data Analytics and Agricultural Intelligence

Focuses on solutions that have leveraged data infrastructure, remote sensing and mapping technologies, precision agriculture tools, and computing power to enable data-driven decision-making by policymakers, public agencies, and private service providers in the agriculture sector.

AgroCares

Partners with Fadhili Africa to provide a handheld scanner that allows instant, on-the-spot and affordable monitoring of nutrients in the soil, feed and leaf. It is combined with an app thus providing quick on-site access to key nutrients in the soil with an option to provide advice on fertilizer applications.

Oakar Services

A geospatial consulting firm focused on providing GIS, remote sensing, and other related geospatial consultancy services

UjuziKilimo

A real-time soil testing service using technology to provide precise and actionable agricultural information to farmers using sensors and mobile phone technologies

Cropnuts

Provides laboratory, precision agriculture and soil fertility and fertilizer use advisory services. Partnering with farmers to increase their profitability by raising crop yields through better soil and fertilizer management and by reducing their input costs through a combination of building healthy soils and adopting precision farming technology.

Sherpa Space

Sherpa Space is a smart Agri-tech company that optimizes crop production and thrives to achieve carbon neutrality through precision agriculture control, leveraging sensor tech and AI for vertical farms, greenhouse and open field farming. Our mobile apps provide cost effective, user-friendly interface for monitoring and control of their farming system, with advanced pest predictive capabilities. Our goal is to pioneer data-driven agriculture globally.

Previous Cohorts

Astral Aerial

Operates affordably priced drones that can cover 1000 acres per flight, with sensors to detect crop health.

Agri-Wallet

Provides a mobile financial tool to connect farmers to agri-buyers, agrovets and service suppliers and a special digital wallet which combines savings, input supply, market access and loans to

Arifu

A personal learning tool farmer can chat with on any mobile device to learn new skills and access opportunities

Digital Green

Offers FarmStack that is an open-source product suite enabling data sharing among farmers, agriculture service providers, and government organizations by addressing key barriers to data sharing at each level of the agricultural ecosystem.

TruTrade Africa

Uses cloud-based mobile and online applications to provide smallholder farmers with linkages to market and fair prices for their produce