Agricultural voice extension for smallholder farmers
Provide smallholder farmers with an expert agronomy hotline. Diagnose crop browning, identify armyworm outbreaks, and receive fertilizer guidance in Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo over ordinary 2G phone calls.
Overcoming the extension officer deficit
Across Nigeria, there is approximately one human agricultural extension officer for every several thousand farming households. Farmers in remote farming communities often lack timely advice when armyworms attack maize or fungal blight strikes cassava.
VoiceReach acts as a tireless, round the clock Voice Extension Officer. Farmers call from their fields using standard keypad phones. They describe what they observe on their leaves or soil in their native dialect, and VoiceReach analyzes the symptoms and prescribes actionable treatments.
Human escalation and case tracking
When an unfamiliar disease outbreak occurs, the system flags the call, creates an extension case record, and escalates the farmer ticket to a human agronomy specialist for a scheduled callback.