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A comprehensive smart-farming solution that supports smallholders throughout the growth cycle.
It helps farmers select what to grow, procure sustainable inputs, manage risks, access financing, nurture and protect their soil and crops, prepare for weather events, and more.
An online marketplace that increases fairness and efficiency.
It helps farmers access warehousing and logistics, get fair prices for their produce, and reduce waste. At the same time, buyers will find sourcing from smallholders more convenient and predictabile than ever before.
Big data insights from smart farming to improve the food system.
We turn usage data into actionable information that help financial institutions to extend services to smallholders, input companies to refine their offerings, and firms and organizations to achieve better results with farmers.
A comprehensive smart-farming solution that supports smallholders throughout the growth cycle.
It helps farmers select what to grow, procure sustainable inputs, manage risks, access financing, nurture and protect their soil and crops, prepare
for weather events, and more.
An online marketplace that increases fairness and efficiency.
It helps farmers access warehousing and logistics, get fair prices for their produce, and reduce waste. At the same time, buyers will find sourcing from smallholders more convenient and predictabile than ever before.
Big data insights from smart farming
to improve the food system.
We turn usage data into actionable information that help financial institutions to extend services to smallholders,
input companies to refine their offerings, and firms and organizations to achieve better results with farmers.
On the surface, it’s an elegantly simple, lightweight
smartphone app designed with farmers, for farmers.
Under the hood, it’s a cloud-powered smart farming
platform on the cutting edge of agricultural technology.
Blooom GX supports farmers with
In short, everything that can help farmers thrive as independent agro-entrepreneurs.
Instead of storing rigid blocks of information for a select number of crops, Blooom can understand the needs of any plant based on its DNA. This means that the platform works with every crop in every climate.
To support farmers with best fit and best practice advice, the platform compares crop DNA information against the following variables:
In order to reach illiterate farmers, we train trusted members of the local community to serve as mentors, information hubs and market links for farmers. We call them Blooom entrepreneurs.
They provide timely best fit and best practice advice based on our platform, and serve as contact points between farmers, buyers and input vendors.
This not only helps farmers, but creates a new class of jobs in rural communities for the better educated and tech savvy.
Blooom GX makes an exhaustive assessment of the risks that farmers face, and creates a clear, actionable risk mitigation strategy.
Our assessment, combined with each farm’s detailed transaction history, provides data and insights for financial institutions that help them extend services to smallholders — a constituency that, up to this point, has mostly been beyond reach.
Farmers need to have a deep trust in change in order to embrace it. They are only going to switch to new crops and practices if they are convinced that they’ll be better off in the end.
Blooom combines soil data, plot size, input costs and food market forecasts to calculate ROI for each available crop before planting. This reduces the age-old unpredictability associated with farming, and helps farmers commit to the platform’s recommendations.
An online marketplace that creates new,
win-win arrangements in the food supply chain.
Blooom MX brings fairness, sustainability, predictability,
convenience and economies of scale into the interactions
between farmers, buyers and logistics companies.
Farmers and Blooom Entrepreneurs can transact with local buyers and retailers directly through the app.
This expands their options, helping
them sell more of their produce,
and get better prices.
In turn, buyers know in advance when, where and how much produce will become available. Moreover, data from Blooom GX enables them to see the quality that they can expect.
This enables them to plan their sourcing with increased precision, improve efficiency, and cut costs.
Currently, 30-40% of farm produce never reaches the market due to inefficiencies along the food supply chain. This harms rural farming families, and increases the price of healthy food for urban consumers.
Blooom MX enables farmers to pick only what is already sold, eliminating a major source of food waste. This improves ecological and financial sustainability, as well as food security.
Some of the harvested produce goes to waste because of the prohibitive costs of storage and transportation.
Blooom MX aggregates demand across larger areas, helping farmers and buyers access the warehousing and logistics that they need, at prices that they can afford.
Once farmers comply with export standards, they can access our dedicated export channels to North America’s and Europe’s organic and fairtrade markets.
This results in substantial income boosts, which enable many families to provide a better education for their children, and invest in their communities.
See how Blooom GX and MX join together
to connect stakeholders along the food supply chain,
improve farmers’ lives, and deliver sustainably grown,
healthy produce to consumers.
Our smart-farming engine knows all about farmers’ soils, inputs,
agricultural practices, as well as the weather conditions that they experience,
and the yields and the prices that they get.
We turn this data into actionable insights that our partners
can use to offer products and services that respond to
on the ground realities, and better serve smallholders’ needs.
If crop science companies want to understand how their products perform under real life conditions, they usually have to partner with, and manage dedicated farming cooperatives.
We can supply them granular data for a fraction of the cost — from not one, but all the farming communities that order their inputs through Blooom GX.
Different types of soil need different inputs. Furthermore, certain weather events results in sudden surges in demand for specific products.
We combine soil and microclimate data with farmers’ input use history, and with real-time data on the inventories of farming communities. This way, we can predict shortages, and ensure that products are available at the right place at the right time. A win for both farmers and suppliers.
By gathering detailed data across many farming communities, we gain insight into the differences in results that various development initiatives, incentives, and management structures deliver. In short: we learn what works.
Our goal is to use these insights to inform the decision making of governments, philanthropies and companies that work with smallholders, and help them deliver better outcomes for rural communities.
We deliver these farmer profiles to financial institutions in a familiar format, identical to FICO reports.
Our service enables them to assess previously data-less farmers with ease and confidence, vastly expanding the number of smallholders who can access credit and insurance.
Today, when forecasting yields, public institutions tend to extrapolate from the records of the preceding years. In our era of increasingly unpredictable weather, this is not sufficient.
Through our partners, we use satellite-based hyperspectral imaging to understand what is happening on each farm right now. This enables us to forecast food shortages with more accuracy, and support governments in taking the apporpriate countermeasures.
Our job is to deliver benefits to every stakeholder in the value chain.
We know that only a culture of co-creation, with sustainable,
small-scale farming at its center can help us conquer
our food system’s enormous challenges.
Instead of building from scratch, we aid and co-create. We use technology to strengthen existing infrastructures, and make everyone’s job easier. If you see yourself in the list below, Blooom is for you. Click to discover the details.
Are you working with a large number of farmers? Blooom can not only strengthen the sustainability of your supply chains and increase your impact on SDGs, but can also make your job more seamless and effective:
Are you buying and selling agricultural produce? Regardless of whether you operate in local or international markets, Blooom can help you source sustainably grown, fresh produce at a competitive price.
With us, you buy directly from farmers. This not only gives you better prices, but also leaves rural communities better off. Furthermore, the platform enables you to plan your sourcing ahead of time. Blooom helps farmers schedule harvests according to your timetable, and provide consistently fresh produce.
Since we keep track of inputs and farming practices on every square-feet of land, when you use Blooom, you know exactly what you are buying. We guarantee sustainable methods and healthy food for everyone, and if you’re an international buyer, we ensure that export standards are consistently met.
Are you in the business of producing and/or selling high quality seed varieties, fertilizers or crop protection? If your products meet our sustainability standards, we can help you extend your reach to smallholder farmers.
We not only help farmers access your products, but provide detailed advice on when and how they should apply them, and then track input use in real time. By combining this with weather insights, we are able to predict shortages and ensure that your product is in stock exactly where it is needed, at the right time and in the right quantity.
We also generate big-data based insights on how farmers use your products, and on the results that they achieve. This will give you a distinct market advantage over your comptetitors who are confined to lab testing or who have to manage their own real-life testing environments. Insights from Blooom IX can help you improve your offerings and become a leader in supplying the world’s over 500 million smallholder farms.
Are you a bank or an insurance company? We are well-aware of the challenges in extending credit and insurance to farmers that lack financial records.
With Blooom, we are filling the gaps with reliable data from multiple sources, delivered in a format identical to FICO reports. Our experience with smallholders is also at your service to help create tailored financial services that provide fair and meaningful support for farmers.
Are you working in the fields of data intelligence, machine learning or blockchain? Partner with us to co-create robust technological frameworks for strategic, ethical connections between smallholder farmers and other stakeholders in the food supply chain.
Are you working for a farmer organization? Blooom can make management tasks much easier, while improving your access to markets, improving yields, and increasing incomes.
We are keen to support governments, public bodies and NGOs that seek to improve our food system’s security and sustainability, and the health, the environment and the economic outlook of rural communities.
By using Blooom GX and MX, our farmers supply invaluable data. This helps our partners draw conclusions regarding the programs, incentives and support structures that produce the highest social impact per dollar invested.
Our ability to combine on-the-ground data with satellite-based hyperspectral imaging can help governments prepare for crop failures and food shortages.
The insights that we have gathered so far stand ready to support decision-makers in their pursuit of lasting change in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Get in touch to discuss how we can work together.
We offer tangible returns on social and environmental impact (for details, see our impact, oor our offer for governments and NGOs above), and we are focused on exponential business growth.
To explore in detail how Blooom rewards investors with a compelling return, please get in touch.
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Two award-winning social enterprises have joined forces to create Blooom: eKutir and Fairtrasa.
Together, we have worked with smallholders in the fields for a combined 20 years,
achieving transformative breakthroughs with technological and social innovation.
eKutir has led the way in developing data-driven, networked technologies to solve complex societal challenges. They are known for co-designing solutions with isolated and marginalized communities. Their approach has made them effective in addressing intractable issues that other technological solutions before them had been unable to resolve.
Fairtrasa has created a unique, three-tier model that is successfully transforming subsistence farmers into independent, export-qualified agro-entrepreneurs. The company has turned the typically philanthropic activity of farmer development into a $70 million per year social business, building a worldwide export network for sustainable smallholder produce.
Together, the two companies have impacted the lives of over a 100,000 farmers in Asia and Latin-America.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for their unwavering support.
