Agriculture & AgritechSolutions

Agriculture employs more than 40 percent of Kenya's workforce and contributes about a third of GDP, yet the sector has historically been underserved by technology. This is changing fast. Across the country, smallholder farmers are using smartphones for the first time, agribusinesses are looking for ways to improve supply chain efficiency, and development organisations are funding digital tools that can help farmers increase yields, access markets, and build financial resilience against drought and crop failure. Tukoweb Solutions is at the forefront of this shift, building agritech platforms that are designed for the realities of Kenyan farming rather than imported from Silicon Valley and applied without local context.

Our agritech work spans several categories. For agribusinesses and cooperatives, we build digital farmer registration systems that capture land details, crop types, and production data for thousands of contracted farmers, enabling better input distribution, offtake planning, and certification management for export markets. For precision agriculture applications, we integrate affordable IoT sensors that monitor soil moisture, temperature, and nutrient levels, sending alerts to farm managers when conditions require action. We have also built AI-powered crop disease detection apps where farmers photograph a sick plant and receive a diagnosis and recommended treatment in seconds, with the entire service working in Kiswahili as well as English.

Market access is another critical area where we see transformative potential. We build agri-marketplace platforms that connect smallholder farmers directly with institutional buyers, cutting out exploitative middlemen and giving farmers access to fair price information. These platforms handle everything from listing produce and negotiating prices to coordinating logistics and processing payments through M-Pesa. We also build the data collection and monitoring and evaluation tools that development organisations and county governments need to track the impact of their agricultural programmes across thousands of farmer beneficiaries.