For farmers, suppliers and farmer organisations
ShambaLink
A market-linkage platform for agriculture. Farmers find markets, finance, inputs and equipment near them on a map, suppliers list what they stock, and organisations that support farmers can bring them on and follow every linkage they make.
- Users
- Farmers, suppliers, organisations
- Finds
- Markets, finance, inputs, equipment
- App
- Phone, for farmers and suppliers
- Dashboard
- Web, for organisations
Who it is for
Farmers and suppliers meet in the app. Organisations that support farmers can bring them on and follow what it does for them.
Farmers
Access farm services and market links. Farmers sign up in the app or are brought on by an organisation that supports them, then search for what they need from where they are.
Suppliers
Manage supplier listings and customer requests. Suppliers register themselves, set up their business so nearby farmers can find their equipment and inputs, and answer enquiries from their own dashboard.
Organisations
A co-operative, union, NGO, county programme or agribusiness enrols the farmers it supports and gets a dashboard of their activity and the linkages they make.
What a farmer finds
Each one is a map search from where the farmer is standing, filtered by distance and category, with directions out to it.
Markets
Where produce can be sold, by category, with distance and directions from where the farmer is standing.
Financial
Banks, SACCOs and insurers within reach, so credit and cover are a map search rather than a rumour.
Inputs
Seeds, fertiliser, agrochemicals, feed and veterinary supplies, listed by the suppliers who actually hold them.
Equipment
Tractors, ploughs and tillers, planters, sprayers, harvesters and irrigation equipment, for sale or hire.
For organisations
An organisation that brings farmers on gets a dashboard of its own. Not the platform's numbers, but its own farmers, their engagement and their linkages, over the last twelve months.
- Your farmers: how many are enrolled, and how many were active in the last 30 days
- Linkages: every farmer-to-supplier connection made, counted and charted by month
- Order mix: which services the linkages ran through, equipment against inputs
How people get in
Three different doors, on purpose, and who may open which is enforced in the database, not in the app.
Farmers sign up or are enrolled
A farmer can sign up in the app. An organisation can also set up accounts for the farmers it supports and hand over the login details, by an emailed link or a temporary password passed on in person.
Suppliers self-register
A supplier signs up, names their business, picks what they stock from equipment and inputs, and drops a pin on their location so farmers searching nearby can find them.
Admins are provisioned
Organisation and platform administrators are never self-signed-up. They are created deliberately, and what each can see is enforced in the database rather than in the app.
Next step
Link farmers to markets.
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