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Agricultural intelligence, your way.

Tools and services for the farm, the conversation and the organisation.

Grounded in the field.

Explore the thinking, evidence and everyday decisions behind our work.

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Our people, our purpose and the principles behind our services.

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Intelligence for the people
that feed Africa.

We’re Openfarms Lab. We build agricultural intelligence that helps farmers decide what to do next and organisations support the people who grow our food.

For farmers For organisations
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Rooted in Nigeria. Built for Africa. Switch between the ground perspective and live overhead AI crop tracking

The whole season.
Not just one answer.

Good advice starts with knowing the farm. Our AI Extension Worker brings together the crop, the work already done and the questions that come next.

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One company, three ways to work

Choose the way that fits your work.

From a farmer’s phone to the organisation supporting them. Pick one to look closer, then open its page.

SmartFarmer

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WhatsApp interactions

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Business services

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Your farm.
Your season.
Your next step.

Practical support, with the context that makes it yours.

SmartFarmer

Our app for farmers, bringing farm information and seasonal work together in one place.

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A separate way to interact with Openfarms Lab through a familiar conversation.

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One farm. A season of context.

Tomato, Field 2

Near Kaduna · Example farm record

  1. Week 1

    Seedlings transplanted

    A starting point for the season.

  2. Weeks 4–6

    Weeding and fertiliser recorded

    The work stays with the farm.

  3. Week 8

    Spotting on lower leaves

    A new observation, with the history behind it.

Crop, location and planting date give the next question a starting point.

Season record.

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Closer to farmers.
Further, together.

For businesses, institutions and organisations working across agriculture.

We work with organisations that already reach farmers, researchers who test our work, and sponsors who fund the evidence behind it. Bring your field relationships, your questions and the problems you want to solve.

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Made for the realities
of the field.

Our starting point is the phone, the network and the farming practices people already use.

Mobile first
A simple, affordable experience on the phone a farmer already has.
Patchy networks
Built for limited data and intermittent connectivity, with work saved and retried.
Local context
Crops, practices and seasons that matter where the farmer works.
A familiar conversation
Connect through WhatsApp, with a conversation at the centre of the experience.

How it works

From the farm to a better next step, and back again.

Each season adds to the record, each answer can be checked, and what happens in the field makes the next answer better.

The farm and its season are recorded. A conversation, in the app or on WhatsApp, brings that context into an answer. Checks and people review where needed. What happens in the field is compared with the answer, which makes later answers better. The farm Field, crop and season The record Work, photos and observations A conversation In the app or on WhatsApp Checks Safety, rules and people where needed A next step With its reasoning and its limits What happens in the field is compared with the answer
Illustration of the idea. How far each step applies depends on the service and the organisation.

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Better advice begins
with better evidence.

Agricultural advice carries real consequences. We design it to show what it used and where uncertainty remains.

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Grounded in the field

Our approach to farm context, human oversight and measured outcomes.

Put the work to the test

Explore our benchmark and evaluation priorities.

Understand the AI

How AI is used, its limitations and the choices around your data.
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Get to know
Openfarms Lab.

Product, engineering and field relationships, brought together around the people growing our food.

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See the season through a farmer’s eyes.

Explore the farming journey
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A company built around a shared purpose.

Meet Openfarms Lab
Where we work
Nigeria
Regional focus
FCT, Lagos and Rivers
Our crop focus
Cassava, tomato and maize

Built to be trusted

Clear about what the AI does, and what it does not.

AI answers say they are AI, uncertain cases go to a person, and your information comes with clear choices.

Our approachAdvice that can be checked in the field. AI transparencyHow AI, human oversight and your choices fit together. Policies & legalPrivacy, data rights, terms and providers.

Let’s grow something
that matters.

Farmers, researchers, extension workers, businesses and partners: there’s a place for you in this work.

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