INTRODUCTION
IQL reimagines relationships and interactions between farmers and their agriculture ecosystem - all in a digital environment.
Process
People
Software
FOR THE ENTERPRISE USER
Are you working with a large number of farmers? Farmers friend helps you, your extension officers as well as your finance department manage your portfolio. From commercial to small scale, Farmers Friend will help you save time and money.
View farmer portfolio remotely
Track seasonal progress and yield data
Monitor on an aggregate or individual basis
For the Farmer
Farmers Friend is the one place for you to manage all aspects of your operations while providing you with key environmental analytics to ensure the best health of your farm.
Farmers Friend is the farming ecosystem that stimulates reduced costs, improved performance, and streamlined efficiency.
Overview
Farmers Friend is the one place for you to manage all aspects of your operations while providing you with key environmental analytics to ensure the best health of your farm.
Streamline the tracking of your day-to-day farming activities on or offline
View, manage and access your farming data in-field or from anywhere in the world
Create your digital footprint to facilitate access to insurance, finance, and inputs
ABOUT THE IQL ECOSYSTEM
Farmers Friend is an integrated agricultural ecosystem allowing its enterprise customers and its farmers to connect and transact more efficiently. We bring the ecosystem closer to the farmer by directly linking them with our Insurance agency Agnovate, our farmer finance desk and our ever growing product range through our partnerships. The result is a frictionless environment to monitor your business and save you money all through a digital environment at your fingertips.
Insurance
It will never be possible to predict the future, but we can always prepare for it. If your fields, crops, and land are
adequately protected from risk events such as a change in soil moisture or changes in the off-take price of a crop, seasonal
preparations become far simpler.
Farmers Friend allows access to a comprehensive set of industry leading insurance products offered by Agnovate Insurance.
Products such as Soil Moisture Insurance (SMI) and Wheat Grade Insurance (WGI) effectively mitigate the systemic risk
experienced throughout operations. These products protect you as the farmer against perils faced on a constant bases that
remain out of your control.
Finance
Growing and maintaining your crop is a strenuous process with unexpected financial roadblocks along the way. Farmers need
have funds available to deal with such difficulties.
Purchasing new inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, and more, enables the farm maintain production levels for harvest. These
costs often exceed your financial parameters as the grower.
Through comprehensive agricultural finance, we can assist you in having inputs readily available for use to maintain the
productivity of your planting program.
Analytics
Data collecting, management, and processing are significant factors involved in preparing land for you as the farmer.
Analysing this data will often allow you to effectively monitor the health of crops on a real-time basis. Data analytics
enhancing your understanding of the data to better equip you for the season ahead.
Basing such decisions on proven past trends leads to a reduction in waste and an increase in potential profits realised in
harvesting through adaptive resource and crop management.
GIS
Farmers Friend utilizes Geographical Information Systems in order to capture your farms fields and operation. This offers
valuable insights such as instant NDVI readings, Soil Moisture content as well as Yield and Harvest reporting.
Making it easy and accessible all at the touch of your fingertips, Framers Friend allows you to understand exactly what is
happening on your farm at any given time.
Inputs
Through real time tracking of your operations, you are able to see what is needed regarding your fertilizer applications,
spray programs and ordering of inputs.
Farmers Friend enables easy input management to allow ordering and procurement of the stock. By have such produce on hand,
farming practices become far easier to maintain.
Activities
Farmers Friend allows you to track all activities from land preparation to harvest. This will gift you the peace of mind of
staying on top of your operation all season round.
Through daily weather updates and rainfall measurements, the stress of land irrigation is minimised. By following such daily
reports on Farmers Friend, crop management becomes a digitally automated process at your fingertips.
Insurance
It will never be possible to predict the future, but we can always prepare for it. If your fields, crops, and land are
adequately protected from risk events such as a change in soil moisture or changes in the off-take price of a crop, seasonal
preparations become far simpler.
Farmers Friend allows access to a comprehensive set of industry leading insurance products offered by Agnovate Insurance.
Products such as Soil Moisture Insurance (SMI) and Wheat Grade Insurance (WGI) effectively mitigate the systemic risk
experienced throughout operations. These products protect you as the farmer against perils faced on a constant bases that
remain out of your control.
Finance
Growing and maintaining your crop is a strenuous process with unexpected financial roadblocks along the way. Farmers need
have funds available to deal with such difficulties.
Purchasing new inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, and more, enables the farm maintain production levels for harvest. These
costs often exceed your financial parameters as the grower.
Through comprehensive agricultural finance, we can assist you in having inputs readily available for use to maintain the
productivity of your planting program.
Analytics
Data collecting, management, and processing are significant factors involved in preparing land for you as the farmer.
Analysing this data will often allow you to effectively monitor the health of crops on a real-time basis. Data analytics
enhancing your understanding of the data to better equip you for the season ahead.
Basing such decisions on proven past trends leads to a reduction in waste and an increase in potential profits realised in
harvesting through adaptive resource and crop management.
GIS
Farmers Friend utilizes Geographical Information Systems in order to capture your farms fields and operation. This offers
valuable insights such as instant NDVI readings, Soil Moisture content as well as Yield and Harvest reporting.
Making it easy and accessible all at the touch of your fingertips, Framers Friend allows you to understand exactly what is
happening on your farm at any given time.
Inputs
Through real time tracking of your operations, you are able to see what is needed regarding your fertilizer applications,
spray programs and ordering of inputs.
Farmers Friend enables easy input management to allow ordering and procurement of the stock. By have such produce on hand,
farming practices become far easier to maintain.
Activities
Farmers Friend allows you to track all activities from land preparation to harvest. This will gift you the peace of mind of
staying on top of your operation all season round.
Through daily weather updates and rainfall measurements, the stress of land irrigation is minimised. By following such daily
reports on Farmers Friend, crop management becomes a digitally automated process at your fingertips.