App Profile: BOAT - Digital Agric community

The BOAT application provides three key products for its users.

1) A digital community hub with focus on building a thriving community of people who share a common interest when it comes to agriculture. The platform will enable open discussions and interactions of every key player in the Agricultural ecosystem. This platform will serve to inform, educate and support farmers as well as agricultural enthusiasts. In the long run, this hub is going serve as a nexus for information flow that will drive farmer’s productivity and increase the profitability rate of farming in the nation by providing resources and opportunities to scale farming activities.

2) A digital wallet that will allow users have access to financial services such as deposits, savings, local funds transfer, withdrawals, peer to peer transactions with a lending product that has a planned structure to meet the needs of the crop and livestock farmers. By addressing these needs, risks can be managed and mitigated.

3) An agric service that self-reports monitoring, evaluation, and other agricultural services to help farmers that are validated through digital solutions. The solution forecasts and estimates the yields of crops and livestock for farmers across stages in any agricultural cycle so that farmers can be better prepared for data validation for loan products.
The users of the product will be a mix of farmers (new & old), students, industry enthusiasts, industry experts, Agri-tech companies, and partners/coalitions.