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year on, and Farmerline has grown independently and through a vast array of new partnerships with various international and local organizations. With these partnerships, they have initiated projects that will help to serve Farmerlines aims; using web platforms and mobile applications to disseminate and collect agricultural data to/from smallholder farmers.
One of the many partnerships Farmerline entered into over the past year was one with Welthungerhilfe (WHH) in April 2015, which became effective on March 30th. This agreement centered on the development and implementation of a computerized TMS for the collection of “Farmer Data” and Farm/Field Data, the mapping of cocoa and coffee fields, the communication with farmers and the tracing of cocoa and coffee products.
Additionally, Farmerline set-up Project TAHMO. This will initiate a platform that will provide weather data and harvest tracking. Within this project Farmerline also created an app to improve information access and communication channels for smallholder cocoa farmers. Moreover, to provide innovative mobile-based agricultural information and messaging services to Eighty (80) communities Farmerline further collaborated with Trias Ghana a Belgium-based NGO. This reputable NGO is currently working with-in 14 different countries worldwide to improve the livelihood security of smallscale entrepreneurs, small-scale farmers and their organizations by working through their member based organizations. What’s more, Farmerline was privileged to partner with ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural
and Rural Co-operation (CTA) in building the capacity of actual and potential end users of its m-apps. CTA particularly selected Farmerline as a value added service provider for the hosting of twenty (20) m-apps training workshops, across selected regions in Ghana, highlighting the eminent reputation Farmerline has established for itself. Through these workshops Farmerline trained and provided hands-on experience to at least a total of 500 users and potential users of their innovative m-apps and agricultural information services. Besides this, the need to explore new and modern ways of collecting agricultural and market price data led to the piloting of a ComputerAssisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) system by SRID in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in some selected districts in Ghana.
Not only has the company’s staff almost doubled in size, but they have successfully established its headquarters in Accra. 75