eProd: Digital Agriculture Supply Chain Platform

Structure, Trace, Scale & Connect with Solutions

eProd is an interoperable supply chain management system for the agricultural sector. Development organizations can integrate it into the agricultural projects they finance. It helps structure farmer data, monitor production, ensure traceability, and improve access to markets and finance. The system is offline-capable, user-friendly, adaptable to local needs, and can interoperate with other digital solutions like advisory apps, financial platforms, and field hardware.

By integrating eProd, development projects gain reliable tools to track results, support farmers with timely information, and connect value chain actors. It also enhances transparency, facilitates impact reporting, and ensures better resource targeting.

Using eProd helps development partners scale effective solutions and drive inclusive, data-informed agricultural transformation.

This technology is pre-validated.

9•7

Scaling readiness: idea maturity 9/9; level of use 7/9

Adults 18 and over: Positive high

eProd integrates adult farmers into structured markets and improves their access to finance, services, and advisory information.

The poor: Positive high

Digital registration and service delivery allow poor farmers to access freely information, inputs, and credit, supporting their integration into value chains.

Women: Positive high

eProd supports the inclusion of women by enabling access to tailored services, finance, and market opportunities, helping overcome common gender barriers in agriculture.

Climate adaptability: Moderately adaptable

eProd supports climate-smart agriculture by enabling early yield forecasting, crop failure alerts, and climate risk monitoring through field data collection.

Farmer climate change readiness: Moderate improvement

The platform helps farmers adapt to climate change by integrating with crop insurance, facilitating access to finance, and delivering targeted weather and production advice via SMS.

Problem

Fragmented Farmer Data: Development programs often lack reliable, up-to-date farmer and production data to design and monitor interventions effectively.
Unstructured Value Chains: Weak coordination between value chain actors leads to inefficiencies, post-harvest losses, and limited impact of funded projects.
Exclusion from Markets: Many farmers remain disconnected from local and export markets, reducing the effectiveness of inclusive growth strategies.
Inability to Meet Compliance Standards: Partner agribusinesses and producers struggle to meet traceability, environmental, and social standards required by global buyers.
Limited Financial Inclusion: Without proper farmer profiling and transaction history, it is difficult to link beneficiaries to finance within project frameworks.
Digital Divide: Poor connectivity, lack of user-friendly tools, and low digital skills among stakeholders hinder the integration of technology into field activities.
Monitoring and Evaluation Challenges: Difficulty in collecting and analyzing real-time data slows down impact tracking, learning, and reporting.
Sustainability Risks: Project benefits may not last beyond funding cycles due to limited adoption of scalable, integrated systems.

Solution

Reliable Beneficiary Registration: eProd enables accurate registration and mapping of farmers and groups, ensuring targeted project delivery and resource allocation.
Structured Value Chain Interventions: Tracks production, aggregation, and payments to improve efficiency and reduce post-harvest losses in project value chains.
Market Linkages for Farmers: Provides full traceability and digital records, helping connect smallholders to formal buyers, processors, and export opportunities.
Support for Compliance and Reporting: Collects necessary data for donor compliance, traceability, and social or environmental standards (e.g. EUDR, CSDDD).
Facilitating Access to Finance: Generates digital transaction and repayment records to support linking beneficiaries with finance partners or project-funded loans.
Offline Operation for Rural Projects: Works on basic Android phones and collects data offline, suitable for remote field locations without reliable internet.
Integrated Monitoring and Learning: Centralizes all project data, simplifying monitoring, adaptive management, and reporting to donors or stakeholders.
Data-Driven Impact and Scaling: Real-time dashboards and analytics enable tracking of results and support scaling of successful interventions.

Key points to design your program

Development organizations aiming to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as no poverty (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), gender equality (SDG 5), and climate action (SDG 13) are turning to digital tools like eProd. eProd empowers projects to register and support smallholder farmers, monitor field activities, track inputs, ensure traceability, and improve access to markets and finance. The platform’s offline capability, multilingual support, and modular structure make it ideal for inclusive rural development and project scaling. With eProd, development partners can deliver measurable results, strengthen reporting, and build resilient value chains.

Steps to Integrate eProd in Development Projects

Initial Engagement
Contact eProd Solutions to discuss project goals and alignment with SDG targets.
Schedule a needs assessment to determine the best configuration for your intervention.
Licensing Agreement
Choose a subscription package based on beneficiary numbers:

Basic: 1,254 USD/year for up to 1,000 farmers

Standard: 3,135 USD/year for up to 5,000 farmers

Standard Plus: 5,016 USD/year for up to 10,000 farmers

Additional farmers: 0.23 USD per farmer annually

Formalize access with a License and Service Agreement.
Infrastructure Setup
Equip field teams and local partners with Android smartphones or tablets.
Ensure basic internet for data sync—offline data collection is fully supported.
Data Preparation
Gather and organize farmer lists, group profiles, and mapped fields for onboarding.
Identify any additional modules needed for monitoring, finance, or compliance.
Training and Capacity Building
Arrange user training workshops for all team members and implementing partners.
eProd offers simple manuals, video guides, and ongoing support.
Pilot Implementation
Test the system in a target community or region, focusing on registration, monitoring, and reporting features.
Collect feedback and refine processes before scaling up.
Full Deployment
Expand to all project areas and beneficiaries.
Use eProd’s dashboards to monitor outputs, track SDG indicators, and manage interventions in real time.
Ongoing Support and Evaluation
Access regular technical support and software updates.
Use analytics and reports for donor compliance, project learning, and adaptive management.

eProd enables development organizations to deliver high-impact, data-driven projects that strengthen value chains, enhance transparency, and empower smallholders—accelerating progress toward the SDGs.

1,250—5,020 USD

Annual subscription depending on project size

IP

No formal IP rights

Countries with a green colour: Tested & adopted
Countries with a bright green colour: Adopted
Countries with a yellow colour: Tested
Countries with a blue colour: Testing ongoing

Countries where the technology is being tested or has been tested and adopted
Country	Testing ongoing	Tested	Adopted
Benin	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Burkina Faso	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Cameroon	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Côte d’Ivoire	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Democratic Republic of the Congo	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Ethiopia	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Ghana	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Guinea	–No ongoing testing	Tested	–Not adopted
Kenya	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Madagascar	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Malawi	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Mali	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Mozambique	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Nigeria	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Rwanda	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Senegal	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Sierra Leone	–No ongoing testing	Tested	–Not adopted
Somalia	–No ongoing testing	Tested	–Not adopted
South Sudan	–No ongoing testing	Tested	–Not adopted
Tanzania	–No ongoing testing	Tested	–Not adopted
Togo	–No ongoing testing	Tested	–Not adopted
Uganda	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Zambia	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted
Zimbabwe	–No ongoing testing	Tested	Adopted

This technology can be used in the colored agro-ecological zones. Any zones shown in white are not suitable for this technology.

Agro-ecological zones where this technology can be used
AEZ	Subtropic - warm	Subtropic - cool	Tropic - warm	Tropic - cool
Arid
Semiarid
Subhumid
Humid

Source: HarvestChoice/IFPRI 2009

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that are applicable to this technology.

Goal 1: no poverty

eProd connects smallholder farmers to markets and financial services, directly improving income opportunities.

Goal 2: zero hunger

Improves production efficiency and reduces losses, supporting food security.

Goal 4: quality education

Provides targeted training programs and webinars—such as Africa Grains Online in partnership with Buhler—covering supply chain management, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and compliance with international standards, to build capacity among farmers and agribusiness staff.

Goal 8: decent work and economic growth

Digitalizes agricultural operations, increasing efficiency and supporting job creation.

Goal 9: industry, innovation and infrastructure

Provides digital infrastructure for agriculture and drives innovation through partnerships, integration with AI and IoT, and continuous collaboration with sector organizations.

Goal 12: responsible production and consumption

Enables traceability and transparency for safer, higher-quality agricultural products.

Goal 13: climate action

Supports climate-smart agriculture by providing and linking datasets for yield forecasting, risk monitoring, and compliance with standards like EU Deforestation-Free data collection.

Goal 15: life on land

Promotes sustainable land and input management by integrating soil testing results and providing nutrient advice, helping to prevent overuse of fertilizers.

Goal 17: partnerships for the goals

Facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing by partnering with organizations such as UNEP, WFP, ITC, FAO, DIASCA, and CGIAR.

The steps to use the eProd system vary depending on the user's role—such as government officials, extension officers, agribusiness managers, or development partners. Each user type has specific responsibilities and needs, which eProd addresses through tailored functionalities. To ensure effective utilization, eProd Solutions offers customized training sessions that align with the unique workflows and objectives of each user group. By contacting eProd Solutions, users can receive personalized guidance and support to maximize the system's benefits for their specific context.

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