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Digitizing Farm Records for Food<br />

Security<br />

FARMIS is an innovation which is basically<br />

implemented by SOKOPEPE for improving the<br />

lives of the small scale farmers in Kenya which<br />

gives power to engage with the financial<br />

institutions and provides them the technical<br />

information for them to increase the income and<br />

also it is used for their food options. The farmers<br />

in FARMIS were given up to USD162, 500<br />

which served 25,000 farmers<br />

Technologies used:-<br />

FARMIS are using both analogue and digital to<br />

manage the records that consists of<br />

PRODUCTION INFORMATION AGENTS.<br />

Through this PIA the farm book collects the<br />

information and data about the production and<br />

mobile phones are used to collect the data that<br />

contains the profiles which contains information<br />

online.<br />

FARMIS seeks to address a related challenge<br />

based on the lack of reliable data; to drive<br />

decision-making and inform households,<br />

governments and private institutions on the most<br />

appropriate interventions that would be necessary<br />

to improve crop production of the rural smallscale<br />

farmer as well as develop the most<br />

appropriate solutions to meet the peripheral<br />

challenges that hamper food production. So far<br />

7,235 farmers in Meru County are keeping<br />

records of their farm enterprises using the Farm<br />

Book. Some of them are already<br />

changing the type of enterprise in their farms<br />

through informed decision.<br />

Reference:http://sokopepe.co.ke/farmis-kenyaimproving-lives-of-farmers-in-meru/<br />

S.Navya Sahithi<br />

1 st year,CSE<br />

Bloomberg Technology<br />

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