Impact Terra Pte. Ltd.

Smart Agriculture Myanmar is a 3-year program led by Impact Terra and supported by several agronomy, remote sensing, financial services and big-data partners that aims to: improve agricultural productivity of smallholder farmers by providing early warnings and timely advice to reduce crop loss, improve access to micro-loans for smallholder farmers by generating qualified leads, collecting loan origination data and risk assessments for micro-finance institutes (MFIs) to improve their products, lower their transaction costs and lower the risk profile of the porfolios SAM builds new and utilizes existing technologies and expertise to support these services for farmers and third parties: - Golden Paddy mobile application platform (information, communication and data collection with/from smallholders) - Golden Paddy recommendation engine (crop simulation models that predict crop stage and risks and provide early warnings and management messages) - Golden Paddy analytics platform (big-data collection and analysis platform feeding the mobile application, recommendation engine, management insights and customer portals) - Remote sensing platform (satellite based insights around crop stage, drought and flood risks and extreme weather events) The program is partially funded by the Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) facility of the Netherlands Space Office, focuses on Maize and Paddy farmers in Shan State and Bago region and aims to deliver these services to 500,000 farmers by 2021.