TOLBI AI - Smart Agriculture Platform
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Overview
Most small-scale agriculture producers in Senegal lack access to the real-time information needed to manage their crops effectively. Without visibility into plant health, water needs, or market conditions, farmers lose significant portions of their harvests to preventable waste while food prices fluctuate unpredictably, and literacy barriers lock many out of digital tools designed to help them.
An AI-powered field management platform is changing that. By combining satellite imagery with natural language processing, the system monitors plant health, fertilization, and water needs in real time and delivers yield forecasts directly to farmers through automated phone calls in local languages, removing the literacy barrier entirely. Public organizations access the same yield data to anticipate supply shifts and stabilize market prices, while farmers use the forecasts to plan storage and manage market contracts before harvest.
The result is a more resilient agricultural system. By meeting farmers where they are, in their own language, on a simple phone call, the platform offers a model for responsible AI deployment that works not just for the digitally connected, but for the many.