Ghana ,
Value Chain Director, Farmerline Limited
Farmerline is a for‐profit, cash‐flow positive, Ghanaian company that has built a social business, software technology, and partnership network reaching over 200,000 farmers across 5 countries in 3 years. Their mission is to enable millions of farmers to become successful entrepreneurs by building global technologies that leverage local expertise. Bright’s work has helped to disseminate and collect information to and from farmers through mobile technology, helping them to access good agricultural practice guidelines, weather reports and real time market information across nine crops.The data gathered by Farmerline allows for farm mapping, supply chain management, inventory tracking and mobile money transactions. Bright has disseminated good agricultural practice information to 5000 smallholder farmers, increasing their knowledge base and improving crop yeld and incomes by more than 50%.
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