Overview

farmbetter is an agtech company that delivers AI-powered agricultural advisory to smallholder farmers through a WhatsApp chatbot, an Android app for extension agents, and an organisational dashboard for cooperatives and agribusinesses. We operate across nine countries; Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, India, Nepal, Colombia, and Ecuador reaching roughly 53,000 farmers through a network of over 1,000 extension agents.

We run a B2B SaaS model: cooperatives, agribusinesses, and development partners license our platform to extend the reach and quality of the advisory their agents already deliver. One live example is ADAM AI, our Twilio-based chatbot deployed with Kenyan cooperatives.

Our advisory content is delivered in ten languages and built on Google Gemini/Vertex AI, combining agronomic science with locally documented farming knowledge including indigenous practices we’ve formally researched and digitised across East Africa, South Sudan, and Latin America.

Our approach has also generated evidence of impact. Earlier field work found a 55.5% increase in yields over six months, with 17.6% of participating farmers doubling their income. More recent programmes have continued to test and strengthen the model across different agricultural and operating environments.

We are building the digital infrastructure that allows climate-resilient agricultural practices and services to reach farmers at the last mile. What sets us apart operationally is that our impact isn’t self-reported. Our AgriPath programme has been independently evaluated through a randomised controlled trial in Uganda, Tanzania and India. That’s the kind of evidence base most agtech platforms at our stage don’t have, and it’s what lets us go into a cooperative or a corporate partner’s conversation with numbers instead of anecdotes.

We’re now looking to convert that evidence and reach into the next stage of commercial scale.

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