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HUB

Harvesting

Country:

Myanmar, India

Crops/Commodity Focus:

All Crops / Not Specified

Category:

Farmer Advisory

About

HUB is a digital platform that collects, manages and shares data on smallholder farmers to expand their access to the agricultural value chain, by leveraging satellite data and AI. HUB's software solutions are designed to be 'plug and play' and they can be connected to customer's management information systems through APIs (application program interface). Once clients have the software, which includes mobile data collection, credit risk scoring and farmland monitoring, they can also access the remote sensing data which provides information on the crop activity of individual farms.

Capabilities & Features

The lab tests 14 parameters of soil & recommends fertilizer dose for 100 crops, and can be connected to a mobile phone or computer. It has 6 hours battery back-up & solar charging facility. Other solutions in the market mostly cost around 20-50 times more than Harvesto's solution and some of them do not do the quantitative analysis of soil and are difficult to use.

Progress to Date

Harvesting and the HUB Digital Platform has empowered over 5,000 farmers, giving them actionable insight on crop activity and connecting them to other providers in the agriculture value chain.

Harvesting are working with CGAP (WorldBank) on a funded pilot project with Pride Uganda that resulted in the country's first credit risk scoring system. FMO, the Dutch development bank, is helping to fund a pilot project with Maha MFI in Myanmar. ILO funded a pilot study in India. Mercy Corps Social Ventures recently became an investor to help the development and deployment of the HUB worldwide.