Project Details

Farmerline


Description

Farmerline has made interacting with rural farmers a lot easier. It has developed a platform that communicates with a network of 200,000 farmers in their native languages while collecting data. The platform provides farmers with valuable market data, while also enabling companies to gather farm-level information. This information is very relevant to farmers, including management practices tailored to particular locations and the crops grown.
Farmerline.org can also get the food prices for nearby markets, thus reducing farmers' travelling.It provides farmers with services that helps them sell more food, anything from weather forecasts to market prices, in a way they understand and can use. Farmerline’s system generates automated phone calls, and the “content and language is different depending on the country the farmer is in.” The farmers simply pick up a call and listen to a message. It’s a powerful way to communicate timely and valuable information.

Project website

https://farmerline.co/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C7. E-business
  • AL C7. E-agriculture
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Coverage
  • Africa

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2012

End date

Not set


WSIS values promotion

Promote ICT network and facilities (agriculture).


Entity name

Farmerline

Entity country—type

Ghana Private Sector

Entity website

https://farmerline.co/