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Not for profit organisation, established and funded by Syngenta International AG, an agro chemical and seeds company that works in over 90 countries and has 26,000 employees

Strategic and operational independence from the company

Mandate to support smallholder famers:

– increasing productivity through improved technology

– improving access to markets

– mitigating farming risks

SFSA is engaged in developing outgrower management schemes in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Peru

Development of Farmforce is co-funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO

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From a market perspective, smallholder contract farming has many challenges for businesses:

SourcingAg

produce

RequiredQuality

(Standards)

Transparent Operations

Harvest Traceability

Financing of Farming

Operations

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• Difficulty Managing Paper Records

• Low Trust in Data on Paper

• Traceability is not Universal (side buying, swapping)

• Field Staff Activity Is Unclear

• Difficult to Pinpoint Fraud and Forged Data

• Scaling is Difficult

Before Farmforce – Paper Based Systems

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Digital Data Collection

Monitoring of Field

Staff

Real-time Information

Greater Scheme Efficiency

More Manageable Operations

Field Agents are the Primary Interface with Small Holders

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Farmforce - Website and Mobile App

The Farmforce Server is a cloud based web application. It is used by cooperatives, farmer business organizations and other aggregators to

organize and monitor farming activities

The mobile client runs on Android phones and is used by

field staff to enter data.

Runs offline.

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Office Based Users

Field Staff

Agent Authenticated on the mobile network.

Transparency and Reliability – At the Farm Gate

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GPS Coordinates to Track Location

Barcodes for Traceability

Printed Verifiable Receipts

Integrated Scales

Online Auditable Transactions

• Loan Management including Input Loans

• Transparent Harvest Management

• Credit Recovery at Harvest

• Field Staff can be monitored

• Fraud and Theft can be prevented or detected

• Future: Credit Scoring of Farmers

• Future: Increased Arms Length Bank Lending

Farmforce – Financial Implications

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• Doreo Partners – Scaled Up

• Maize Intensification in Nigeria

• 2000 Farmers

• Loans to Groups

• The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe - Piloting

• Cotton Processing In Zimbabwe

• 30,000 Farmers in Pilot Area

• Loans to Individuals with Recovery at Harvest Purchase

• Horticulture & Seed Companies – Rolling Out

• Operations Management is Live

• Loan Management in the Future

Farmforce – Current Clients using Loans

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Demo done by:Faith Kamenchu

Skype Name: KamenchuMobile: +254 (0) 722 933916

Faith.kamenchu@farmforce.com

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