Shambani

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Shambani puts everything a Tanzanian farmer, buyer or agribusiness needs into one app, instead of scattering it across phone calls, middlemen and guesswork. Here is what is inside.

Map your field boundaries, record what is planted where, and track each crop from planting through to harvest.

Photograph a sick plant and get the likely disease and a treatment, on the spot. Works without a network connection.

Forecasts for your own farm location, so you know when to plant, spray or harvest.

Keep as many plans as you have seasons or ventures. Record income and costs, issue invoices, and read profit and loss, receivables and a full ledger in the currency you chose.

Ask any farming question in your own language and get a straight answer, day or night.

Buy and sell crops, livestock, seeds and inputs directly with people near you, with delivery and in-app payment built in.

Run a real shop: a point of sale with cashier accounts and shifts, stock that counts itself down as you sell, sales and stock reports, and one tap to publish any product to the marketplace.

Hire a tractor or harvester for the season instead of buying one, or earn from your own machine on the days it sits idle.

Every order you placed, every order you received and every booking you made, in one place with its delivery status.

Get paid and pay inside the app, top up by mobile money, and withdraw when you want to.

Find farmers, buyers and businesses near you, follow them and message them directly.

Book a paid consultation with an agronomist, a veterinarian or an extension officer when a question needs an expert.

Hire vetted hands by the day or by the job for planting, weeding and harvest.

Ask questions, share what worked and read advice from farmers growing the same crops as you.

Join learning groups for a crop, a district or a co-operative, and take short courses together.

Messages are end-to-end encrypted, so only you and the person you are writing to can read them.

Use Shambani in 12 languages, including Swahili, English, French, Amharic, Hausa and Zulu.

Pick your own currency and see every price converted at rates the server refreshes through the day.

Get your account verified so buyers and sellers know who they are dealing with.

We built Shambani because Tanzanian agriculture runs on relationships and hard-won trust. Our job is only to make those connections easier to find, and fair to everyone on both ends of a deal.

Shambani by Paygala