By Kingsley Samuel
The FarmAll Ecosystems Limited has unveiled farAI, a digital platform designed to connect farmers, cooperatives, input suppliers, buyers, transporters, financiers and policymakers across Nigeria’s food system.
In a concept brief submitted to the Office of the President, the Lagos-based agricultural technology company said the platform was designed to link activities across the value chain and generate data to support food production and policy decisions.
FarmAll said farAI was already in use by farmers, adding that it combined digital services for farm advice, input supply, weather forecasts, market prices, produce sales, logistics, credit and insurance.
The company said its farmer-facing application provides artificial intelligence-based crop and livestock advice, including diagnosis of pests and diseases from photographs. It also offers a Nigerian pest and disease information library, localised weather forecasts and planting guidance.
Farmers can use the platform to find listed input distributors, compare indicative prices, place orders and participate in cooperative bulk purchases. They can also track farm operations, record harvests and list produce for buyers.
The ecosystem includes FarShare, for community savings and group input purchases; FarmTakers, a marketplace connecting farmers with verified buyers; CooHub, for cooperative administration; FaraiGo, an agricultural haulage marketplace; and FarVest, which the company says links investment to monitored harvests and off-take agreements.
FarmAll said farAI was designed to work through USSD, offline access and local languages, including Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Pidgin, to reach farmers without smartphones or reliable internet access.
The company cited estimates that smallholders make up about 80 per cent of Nigeria’s farmers and produce roughly 90 per cent of agricultural output, while only about seven per cent can access credit. It also said post-harvest losses cost the country more than $10 billion annually.
FarmAll said transaction histories and farm records generated through the platform could help farmers demonstrate their creditworthiness, while digital records could assist government in verifying beneficiaries of agricultural support programmes.
“Transaction-based credit identity makes the smallholder bankable and insurable, unlocking private capital rather than relying on public funds,” the company said in the brief.
It added that linking farmers to buyers and transport services could help reduce produce losses and improve farmers’ access to markets.
The company said farAI aligned with the Federal Government’s food security priorities and the National Agrifood System Strategy and Action Plan for 2026 to 2035, which seeks a digitally enabled, market-oriented sector.
FarmAll Ecosystems Limited is headquartered in Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos. Its founder and chief executive officer is Samuel Akinyode.
