Hekitari

Building AI to increase yields for farmers

[Hekitari @Hekitari]

Two farmers, same village. Same crop, same planting date, same advice.
One yields 10 t/ha. The other 0.5 t/ha. The difference Every location is different.
InvestWise by https://t.co/9moyN8XHCx reads the soil, terrain & climate of any spot — what to grow, when, and how.

[Hekitari @Hekitari]

Last week we visited Kamonyi: 4 cooperatives, 420+ hectares of vegetables, all running Smart Farm Manager.
Satellite intelligence in Kinyarwanda. Smarter inputs. AI pest management.
We don't advise farmers. We run climate-smart farming as a service.
https://t.co/i5hbmz2Mci

[Hekitari @Hekitari]

Most countries can't credit-score farms, they don't even know where the farms are.
Rwanda mapped all ~11M of its land parcels into a 100% digital registry. Every plot has an ID.
That's a lending substrate almost nobody else has. And we build on it.
https://t.co/i5hbmz2Mci

[Hekitari @Hekitari]

Most AgTech AI is trained on data from the global north. We tried it on Rwanda. It broke.
Volcanic soils, clay valleys, 950m–4,500m altitudes, steep terrain, two unpredictable rainy seasons — all in one small country.
So we built https://t.co/9moyN8XHCx for this reality.