iGrowers Information Hub is a social enterprise that was formed to create community-based spaces for farmers to be able to access up-to-date farming information, technologies, climate smart agronomic services, and most importantly a direct link to the market.
The community-based spaces dubbed iGrowers InfoHubs consist of communities of small-scale farmers willing to work hard and produce good quality produce for fair market prices. The InfoHubs are run from a community based office where last mile agricultural technologies and service provision are coordinated and where community youth service providers are contracted to offer farmers with various farm services including but not limited to harvesting, planting, threshing, soil sampling, pruning, and many more.
Our farmers enjoy fair prices because we coordinate last mile Avocado harvesting and aggregation using community-based hub agents and youth.
Through trained youth service providers, we harvest farm produce from hundreds of small-scale farmers ensuring tradeable volumes of consistently high quality standards are delivered to our customers.
Through the iGrowers Infohub farmer application and the iGrowers satellite monitoring system, small-scale farmers are able to access farming information and updates on the latest technologies available to them. Climate information and monitoring of pests and diseases ensure that farmers have real-time information that helps them make the right decisions.
By attaching each small-scale farmer to an iGrowers Agriculture Extension officer, the farmers are able to access field and on-farm training and extension services provided to them. The farmers are also able to have demonstrations of new technologies right on the farms..
Our business sustainability is anchored on two things. One is the use of scalable ICT systems that smoothen our farmer service delivery and help small-scale farmers easily access last mile training, technology dissemination, and various agronomic advisory services. Second, the use of iGrowers Infohub Extension Agents (iIEA) who directly support the farmers and contract community youth to work as farm service providers.