Farm Vibe

1. Unemployment caused by Covid-19 - Unemployment rate in Ghana is expected to reach 7.60% by the end of 2020.(Trading Economics) 2. Strengthening food security - The agricultural sector is experiencing adverse disruptions in the supply chain due to covid 19.(KPMG) 3.Economic Growth- There is a slump in projected GDP growth for 2020 at 2.6% (KPMG)

The focus is to develop a digital virtual farm and a market place where majority of Ghanaian  can farm at a place of convenient to boost domestic production and consumption of food commodities and create employment, increase and strengthen  food security, and provide healthy lifestyle in Ghana.

•Food security

According to the  World Bank, 805 million people in the world do not have enough food to eat and 791 million (98%) of this figure reside in developing countries (Ghana).

•Employment

Provide livelihoods and create sustainable opportunities for women and men along targeted chain. 

•Unemployment among the youth caused by covid 19

In 2019, the estimated youth unemployment rate in Ghana was at 13.69 percent. of the total labor force in 2019. The unemployment rate is the percentage of a country's labor force that are without jobs but are available to work and actively seeking employment.

Due to the nature of the economy and its population size of over 30 million people, Ghana’s estimated GDP per capita amounts to just over 2,200 U.S. dollars in 2018 and forecast to rise continually over the next few years. Almost half of the country’s population works in the services sector, and around 33 percent work in agriculture (Published by H. Plecher, Feb 12, 2020)

The focus is to develop a digital virtual farm and a market place where majority of Ghanaian  can farm at a place of convenient to create employment, increase and strengthen  food security, and provide healthy lifestyle in Ghana.

Digital  Platform

•The Virtual farm and market place  platform will be built using a micro service based architecture to ensure ease  scalability. The platform will be hosted on any of these cloud providers (AWS S3  among others).

•The payment gateway will be a Ghana local service for FICA compliance.

Processes

•Once an individual signs up on the digital platform by creating an account, they can select the farm units they want to sponsor and begin to farm on.

•The individual can secure the farm land, plant the seeds, complete the full farming cycle, and cover the logistics to sell the harvest.

Our target audience will be Ghanaian youth who are  unemployed

•Aged 18-35 years

•Persons within the range of lower middle to upper income earners.

•Youths who prefers convenient way of farming.

Impact on their lives

Providing Employment

•Ghana GDP Growth advanced 7.9% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2019. Agriculture sector accounts for 22 percent, mainly crops (17 percent) of Ghana's economy this will be bridged by;

•Providing jobs for Ghana’s growing population and creating sustainable opportunities for 50,000 females and 40,000 males along targeted value chains, as well as identify and address gender inequality through our digital virtual farm and market place.

•Providing livelihoods for those in the transport sector, hospitality and restaurant chain

Food security

Each night, 1 in 9 people go to bed hungry (The Economic Times, 2015). Ghana Statistical Service, reports poverty rate in Ghana as 23.4% in its Ghana Living standard survey in 2017. FAO (2012) estimated that nearly 870 million men, women and children were chronically food-insecure – in other words, they did not eat enough nutritious food each day for a healthy life (source world vision international report)

•Digital virtual farm and market place that allows people to farm at their comfort of their homes.

•Deploying of extension officers on the platform to educate people

•Convenient 

•Tracking full-cycle by pictures and videos via their dashboard. 

•Google Maps, Routes and Places

It bring the real world to users with street view imagery. Help virtual farmers to locate their farm lands. 

•Body cam / Helmet cam

•USSD

Providing a two-way communication using  Long and Short code for user with no technological know how to request, accept and make payments.

•GPS tracking system

 GPS tracking system also known as a real-time system as this method automatically sends the information on the GPS system to a central tracking portal or system in real-time as it happens

•Information and communication technology (I.C.T) and its related fields such as Google map, Global Positioning System (GPS), mobile devices and applications (apps) have become more advanced, diversified and globalized.

•Uber as a case study: The three affordances are the processes for creating something new (Uber car ride sharing) to disrupt existing services (traditional taxi services) in Ghana. However, it is the mobile device affordance that the respondents could not afford to lose or change for the Uber car ride sharing. It is their strongest affordance. The ownership of mobile devices has overwhelmingly influenced the Uber car ride sharing service in Ghana. Consequently, this is the factor that has disrupted the traditional taxi services in Ghana.

How

The focus is to develop a digital virtual farm and a market place where majority of Ghanaian  can farm at a place of convenient to boost domestic production and consumption of food commodities and create employment, increase and strengthen  food security, and provide healthy lifestyle in Ghana.

Why

Food security

Each night, 1 in 9 people go to bed hungry (The Economic Times, 2015). Ghana Statistical Service, reports poverty rate in Ghana as 23.4% in its Ghana Living standard survey in 2017. FAO (2012) estimated that nearly 870 million men, women and children were chronically food-insecure – in other words, they did not eat enough nutritious food each day for a healthy life (source world vision international report)

One year

Rural population in Ghana was reported 43.94% of the total population in 2018. we are estimating that in one year all  persons in our rural population will benefit from our solution

Five years

Within five years we are estimating that all persons of the total population will benefit from the solution. 

One year goals

•To solve unemployment among the youth

•Alleviate poverty

•Providing decent work

Next five years

•Zero hunger

•Curb many social vices

•Impact the economy through our digitize platforms

•Funding

Farm productivity has been constrained due to several challenges including low availability and high cost of credit (30%/year), overburdened extension services, underdeveloped irrigation infrastructure, low use of improved seeds etc

•Perception about agriculture among Ghanaian youth.

•Storage facilities

•How to extend technology to the farm communities

•Investment funding to develop the platform and sponsor the youth into agriculture

•Educational campaigns about agriculture and its benefit for the youth.

•Partnering with telecommunication company to help provide internet connectivity at the various farm communities or introducing the use  USSD to communicate and disseminate information's.

The team has more than two years experience in agriculture, marketing and finance.

Well endowed with technological trends. innovative and hardworking. 

•Funding

Farm productivity has been constrained due to several challenges including low availability and high cost of credit (30%/year), overburdened extension services, underdeveloped irrigation infrastructure, low use of improved seeds etc

•Perception about agriculture among Ghanaian youth.

•Storage facilities

•How to extend technology to the farm communities

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