Initiative Story

To help and empower farmers monitor and conserve irrigation water, manage their crops and herds, with an aim to increase yields, boost productivity and achieve efficiency.

We aim to achieve this by adopting a tripple-bottom line approach as an accounting framework that considers social, environmental and financial elements. The financial element will be realised through a monthly subscription financial model wheras the environmental element will be achieved through the monitoring and tracking of irrigation water by utilizing affordable smart sensor technology and cloud computing.Finally, the social element will be achieved through providing meaningful employment to key social groups like the youth and women who will be involved in capacity building and technology transfer to farmers and stakeholders.

Budget Breakdown

Application Development and Services = Kshs. 800,000

Purchase of trial set of sensors, getways and other components = Kshs. 300,000

Acquisition of Hosting Equipment and Servers = Kshs. 400,000

Adminstration costs for the Year = Kshs. 300,000

Marketing Logistics = Kshs. 1,000,000

Key Social Groups Capacity Building = Kshs. 400,000

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