Produce Traceability Software Tanzania

What it does

Farmer & Produce Traceability

Buyers increasingly want to know where a consignment came from, and financiers want to know that the farmers on the list exist. Most Tanzanian agribusinesses can produce a total tonnage and a payment sheet, but not a chain from a numbered lot back to the farms that filled it. That chain is now the difference between selling into a formal market and selling into the local one.

Farmer registry with ID, photo, household and bank or mobile money details
GPS farm boundary mapping and plot area calculation
Crop, variety and expected yield per plot per season
Input distribution on credit — seed, fertiliser, chemicals — per farmer
Input recovery and deduction at the point of purchase
Extension visit logging and agronomic advice records
Collection point weighing with farmer, weight, moisture and grade
Printed and SMS receipt to the farmer at delivery
Farmer payment runs by mobile money with deduction of input credit
Warehouse intake, lot creation and lot composition by farmer
Grading, drying, moisture and quality test records per lot
QR code per lot resolving to a public traceability page
Export consignment assembly from lots, with documentation pack
Season reporting: volumes, yields, prices, recovery rates and losses

Tanzania

Agriculture in Tanzania

Offline collection — Weighing at collection points happens far from coverage. The app captures offline and syncs later, printing or texting a receipt to the farmer immediately either way.
Input credit recovery — Advancing inputs and recovering at purchase is standard practice here and is a common source of loss. Recovery is automatic at the weighbridge rather than reconstructed at the end of the season.
Cooperatives and AMCOS — Structured to work with cooperative and AMCOS models as well as direct-from-farmer buying, including member-level statements.
Warehouse receipts — Lot records are kept in a form compatible with warehouse receipt system practice, which matters for crops where the WRS route is how farmers access finance.
Traceability for buyers — Each lot carries a QR code resolving to a page showing region, collection dates, farmer count, grade and quality tests — which is what formal and export buyers increasingly ask for.

How we work

Scoped first, built in phases

We look at the process

Not a sales meeting. We sit with the people who do the work now and find where the time and money actually go.

You get a written scope

What will be built, what it costs, how long it takes, and what is explicitly out of scope. In writing, before anything starts.

Built in phases

The part that hurts most is delivered first and put into real use, so value arrives before the whole project is finished.

Trained and supported

Your staff are trained on the real system with real data, and support continues after go-live.

Register farmers first. A verified farmer registry with GPS-mapped plots is phase one and delivers value on its own — it is what funders, buyers and certification bodies ask for before anything else.

Frequently asked

Farmer & Produce Traceability — questions we get

Does the collection app work offline?

Yes. Weighing, farmer identification and receipting all work with no connection and synchronise when the device reaches coverage.

Can we recover input credit automatically?

Yes. Inputs advanced to a farmer are recovered from the value of what they deliver, with the deduction shown on their receipt and statement.

What does the QR code show a buyer?

A page identifying the lot: region of origin, collection window, number of contributing farmers, grade and quality test results. Personal farmer details are not exposed publicly.

Can it map farm boundaries?

Yes, by walking the plot boundary with the app. Area is calculated from the polygon, which is also how expected yield estimates are validated.

Does it work for cooperatives?

Yes, including member statements and cooperative-level reporting, alongside direct buying models.

Trace a lot back to the farm it came from