M-Farm gives smallholder farmers easy access to price information via SMS

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Kenya - M-Farm is a mobile application that helps Kenyan farmers get market information and improve their agriculture productivity. Offering a simple, accessible, and affordable alternative to using the internet, small-scale farmers can text the number 3535 to request pricing information for a specific crop in a specific location.

The M-Farm team describes what they do as:

• Enabling farmers to inquire about current market prices of different crops from different regions and/or specific markets.
• Aggregating farmers needs/orders and connecting them with farm input suppliers.
• Enabling farmers to sell collectively and connecting them with a ready market.

M-Farm, created by a group of young, innovative girls, recently won the IPO48 software development competition and was awarded €10,000 in capital investment.

 To watch a video about M-Farm, go to: http://www.thinkinnovation.org/en/blog/2011/02/new-innovation-case-on-th...

 M-Farm website: http://mfarm.co.ke