The AgroXchange© is a geospatial database of farms and farmers that leverages the market penetration of smart devices in Nigeria and the GPS location component of smart phones to facilitate rapid data collection
and information dissemination in real-time and near real-time. The main objective of the geospatial database is to reduce the cost of doing business for farmers, aggregators, offtakers, and processors in establishing market linkages. Thus bridging the gap of availability of disaggregated farm data, access to markets, commodity trade facilitation and ensuring traceability.
AgroXchange© is premised on the principle that every farmer is a business entity and demonstrates Orbital Solutions goal to drive insight.
AgroXchange© was developed by Orbital Solutions Global Services Limited, an independent Geographic Information Systems (GIS) company domiciled in Nigeria. Orbital Solutions recognises the inefficiencies in the Nigerian agricultural value chain and its impact on cost of doing business in the farm to table supply chain. A major prerogative of farmers in Nigeria, especially small holder farmers, is profit which is guaranteed through access to market.
A market driven digital solution that recognizes the importance of access to market to food security in Nigeria
Target Users
The target users include but are not limited to the following:
- Farmers
- Input suppliers
- Aggregators
- Off-takers
- Processors
- Retailers
- Investors
- Banks
- Donor partners
Establishing market linkages in agriculture requires up-to-date and disaggregated data on the Nigerian agricultural sector. However, such disaggregated data, including information on the location and activities of smallholder farmers are not available in the public domain. Geospatial technology and sustainable data collection processes play a significant role achieving a farm geospatial database. The geospatial database, combined innovatively with smartphone technologies using push notifications, delivers significant improvements on the cost of doing business for players in the agricultural value chain interact.