Mfarm limited, an award winning software solutions and agribusiness company has announced the partnership with Samsung that has seen them release their mobile application, which is available on both Android and Samsung’s Bada based phones.The mobile tool allows farmers to receive accurate, real-time crop price information daily, 6 days a week, being sourced from 5 major markets in Kenya: Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Kitale. The M-Farm web application gives monthly analysis of the crop prices in different markets, showing the price trends. Therefore, the farmer is able to make informed economic decisions on what to plant when, how to price his produce and where to sell.
The official launch shall be on the 5th of June 2012 at Ole Sereni hotel Nairobi alongside the Pivot East conference. The m-farm app can be found at Samsung Apps store. source: www.ihub.co.ke/blog
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MFarm Ltd is a software solution and agribusiness company. M-Farm, is a transparency tool for Kenyan farmers where they simply SMS the number 3535 to get information pertaining to the retail price of their products, buy their farm inputs directly from manufacturers at favorable prices, and find buyers for their produce.
MFarm is designed to:
- Enable farmers to inquire current market prices of different crops from different regions and/or specific markets.
- Aggregate farmers needs/orders and connect them with farm input suppliers.
- Enable farmers to sell collectively and connect them with a ready market.
Source: www.mfarm.co.ke/about
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