Kitovu Technology Company

Smallholder farmers typically grow 2–4-hectare farms and realize low yields compared to global averages. Post-harvest, 40% of yields are lost due to poor storage and lack of market access. This impacts farm-level productivity and farmer incomes. These problems arise because farmers rely on guesswork, instinct, and traditional knowledge to make operational decisions. We started Kitovu to solve these problems. Kitovu builds climate-smart farm and post-harvest infrastructure, enabling smallholder farmers in distant pocket locations to access personalized agronomic advisory, storage, and market access services. Launched in March 2017 by a group of young people who believe they could help Africa feed the world, Kitovu Technology Company enables smallholder farmers to cut down input costs and increase yields and sales by providing precise inputs, personalized soil and crop health insights, and market linkages. Kitovu has built three main products that support climate-smart farming and enables access to post-harvest infrastructure; YieldMax, eProcure, and StorageX. YieldMax applies data science and remote sensing to provide smallholder farmers with a personalized agronomic advisory that delivers operational insights, input specifications, and crop health audits. We match the farmers' produce to partner buyers at harvest through our eProcure service. We also provide access to adequate storage and access to finance through StorageX, a platform that leverages Electronic Warehouse Receipts Systems to transform farmers' goods under storage into collaterals. Kitovu Technology Company has enabled the smallholder farmers it supports to cut their input costs by 20% while increasing their yields by 30% in Nigeria. As a result, they have increased their annual incomes by 40%. And we have won multiple National and International Awards for our work supporting smallholder farmers, including Total Startupper Awards for Innovation, Nigerian Innovation Award, UN STI Forum Award for Innovation, and World Bank Ideas for Action Award for Innovation. Kitovu is working to build a resilient food system for African agriculture to transform African Agriculture one smallholder farmer at a time.

Purpose

Vision: To become the most preferred and reliable name for African smallholder farmers in climate-smart agriculture. Mission: Eradicating extreme poverty among African smallholder farmers by building and deploying climate-smart farming and post-harvest infrastructure. Values: Service, Agency, Loyalty, Urgency, Tenacity (SALUT).

Nwachinemere Emeka

CEO, Kitovu Technology Company

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Summary

Kitovu Technology Company will halve the food insecurity in Africa by enhancing food production and distribution efficiency through the rollout of 5,000 Farmers Service Centers, empowering 5 million smallholder farmers by doubling their average incomes, by 2038.

Activities & Initiatives

Kitovu Technology Company will set up Farmers Service Centers in every area smallholder farmers live in Africa with Nigeria as a starting point. We will create user friendly technologies that will increase the productivity of African farmers and strengthen the food system. Also, we will provide affordable but stellar agricultural services to farmers and timely supply of affordable commodities to buyers. We will collect data extensively to drive research improvement and decision making. We will expand partnerships and supplier networks so as to reach out to more smallholder farmers audience.

Measures & Targets

Kitovu will measure progress by using the number of smallholder farmers impacted, as well as the number of Farmers Service Centers set up, by 2038. 

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