FarmerChat:
hyper-local, expert farming advice at scale
Helping millions of smallholder farmers access trusted agricultural knowledge instantly.
Millions of farmers make critical decisions every day without timely advice
Every season, smallholder farmers face decisions with lasting consequences: when to plant, what to apply, how to protect a crop. The right guidance at the right moment can decide a year’s yield and their family’s livelihood.
FarmerChat meets farmers where they are: in their language, on their phone, in seconds. No appointments, no jargon, no waiting for answers.
By the numbers
With FarmerChat, the cost per farmer to apply a new practice has dropped from $35 to under $1, and a single answer costs less than four cents.
FarmerChat delivers personalized farming guidance & tips instantly
Ask a question any way
Voice, text, or photo. Farmers communicate naturally in the moment, and FarmerChat responds.
Personalized to every location
Advice is tuned to local soils, crops, and climate so the guidance matches what actually grows there.
In any language
FarmerChat works in any language a farmer speaks. We build the technology that makes it possible.
“I became so happy after I listened to the details of my challenge through voice. It didn’t take money. It took the right information at the right time.”
FarmerChat Insights
Cultivating the Future: How Digital Green and OpenAI are Empowering Farmers with FarmerChat
Breaking Language Barriers: Empowering Ethiopian Farmers with Multilingual Digital Agricultural Tools
Nurturing Knowledge & Growth: Supporting Extension Agents & Small-Scale Farmers with AI
Open Source for Good
Explore the open research and datasets behind FarmerChat.
- Read the paper
Benchmarking Agricultural Speech Recognition
Open benchmarks for low-resource languages, so voice systems work for farmers who most need them.
- View on Hugging Face
FarmerChat Agricultural Q&A Dataset
Open dataset of 1.4M farmer questions and FarmerChat generated answers across languages and crops.