Agrivi will see farmers;

• Take control of all farming activities.
• Get Knowledge about the best practice farming process.
• Reduce risk of lower yield caused by pest & diseases.
• Make data driven decisions for improving productivity.
• Save time, reduce costs and ensure profitability.

Agrivi, simply gives you a clear picture of how your farm operates while providing efficiency and sustainability elements accessible from the comfort of your mobile phone, tablet or laptop. Agrivi comes with a free app downloaded at the Google App Store or the iPhone App Store enabling you to enter your farm records on any device you may have with you.

Agrivi is segmented in crop management, finances and resources.

• Crop management, lets you register crop production, mark fields; that is, track the field of crop production using Google maps.This technology, further links with Google forecasts, and gives you forecasts for the farm, to as far as 3 years ago and further years to come. This ultimately sensitizes the farmer and updates the farmer on risks expected, thus, reducing negative growth of crops. Crop management further allows a farmer, to record tasks partaking the crop and farm. Acts like, planting, harvesting among others can be recorded under tasks. This are then synchronized with alarms, which always remind the farmer of impending tasks.

• Finance segment, gives a picture of how the farmers run their; sales, expenses and investments. Farmers also get to record their statistics of the farm produce which they can custom as sales. The farmers gets to record how his sales go. Expenses like, electricity, labor and fuel can also be recorded. These give an insight on how the expenses are used and how much is spent on them. Investments too are given a recorded and easily monitored template. Agrivi further provides a graph representation of this data, which helps the farmers to easily keep track their farm records.

• Resources refer to what is contained in the farm.Elements of People, field, mechanization, items and inventory are recorded here. This segment contains the ‘heart’ of the farm. Each farmer should keenly fill this section since all other segments are linked to this segment for synchronization.

Agrivi is meant for the farmers who want to improve output and synergy of resources in their farm all from the comfort of their mobile phones, tablets or laptops.

To experience this new innovative technology, visit our website and simply click on AGRIVI at the top menu.

Getting to this stage was no easy task. First, a record 792 applicants from 74 countries applied. After an expert review of the proposals, the list was narrowed down to 76 semi-finalists. Finally, the global public weighed in, casting an unprecedented over 407,000 votes to bring the competition down to 30 finalists. The passion and dedication of these 30 entrepreneurs came through clearly as they offered solutions to solve local and global problems through innovative startups.

In July 25-26, 2015, these entrepreneurs gave their final pitches to determine who would be chosen as a Tech-I winner.

We are excited to announce that we managed to emerge 2nd Best Start Up in the World with Mexico’s Carlos Francisco taking the first place. We are excited about this award as it shows our commitment to improving farming not only in Kenya but Sub Saharan Africa as a whole. Special thanks to our esteemed clients and partners that helped us during the voting stage to voice our innovation . Congratulations to everyone!

From Left: Eunice Kariuki Director of Partnerships, Innovation & Capacity at ICT Authority Kenya, Taita Ngetich Co-Founder Illuminum Greenhouses, Su Kahumbu-Stephanou Founder iCow, Francis Nderitu ICT Authority.