Farmlogics is an ag-tech company that builds farm management software for agribusinesses working with large networks of smallholder farmers. Its platforms digitize the value chain from farmer registration and field visits to procurement, warehousing and sales, so every crop, field and farmer can be traced.
Farmlogics started in 2016 with a team of agronomists, developers and consultants, and has offices in India, Kenya and Ghana. According to Farmlogics, its seven platforms are active in more than 10 countries and have reached over 500,000 farmers.
The problem
Smallholder farmers grow much of the world’s food, but the sector is fragmented. Agribusinesses buying from them often work in remote areas with little internet access and no standard way to record what was grown, collected, shipped or paid. At the same time, buyers and regulators expect traceable produce for export and certification.
The platform
Farmlogics pairs a cloud platform with an offline-first mobile app. Field teams record data without a connection, and it syncs when they are back online. Satellite insights add a view of the farms themselves.
The platform is split into products for different kinds of agribusiness:
- Contract farming: farmer onboarding with geo-located field data, digital contracts, input distribution, field monitoring, procurement tracking, and settlements that match produce received against inputs issued
- Agri ERP: crop planning, inventory across locations, finance and billing, HR and payroll for farm labor, and live dashboards, on phones and desktops
- Livestock management: herd productivity, feed costs and early detection of health issues
- Poultry management: batch-wise mortality, feed use and profitability
- Agri consulting: traceability implementation, sustainability monitoring, carbon credit projects and ERP rollout and training
Farmlogics has published case studies on its work with Barry Callebaut on cocoa, Guinness Ghana Breweries on sorghum, and Eliho Ghana on cocoa traceability.
The product suite
Underneath those solutions sits a set of Farmlogics products, each aimed at one part of the chain:
- Outgrowers: for contract farming companies, with farmer profiling, agri input sales and produce purchase
- Campo: tracks crop cycles and field officer performance, with field mapping, fertilizer trials and pest reporting
- Farmvoy: crop procurement and last-mile input delivery, with delivery agent allocation, route creation and stock management
- Makeforms: custom mobile forms with workflows and analytics for field data collection
- Value Chain: for commodity traders and food producers, with field fund management, procurement and warehouse management
- Fulfil: seed-to-plate operations, with a farmer CRM, agri input sales and produce purchase
Across the suite, Farmlogics uses blockchain for traceability of agricultural produce, offline data capture for areas with poor connectivity, satellite imagery for field mapping and climate predictability, and analytics to help farmers use fewer resources per unit of land.
Project scope
Lightrains worked on the blockchain layer behind Farmlogics’ traceability. Procurement, shipment, invoice and warehouse records are written to a permissioned Hyperledger Fabric network and verified on chain.
- Hyperledger Fabric in AWS Cloud
- On demand data streaming pipeline
- Data layer
- Crop procurement
- Offloading/Acceptance/Rejection
- Shipment
- Sales Invoice
- Warehouse operation
- Client authentication logic
- On chain asset verification
- Failover strategy