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Agronomic Intelligence for All

The Problem
Farming is all about daily cropping plans — after all, your consequent yield is your net worth

Inaccessible Unaffordable Wrong


90% market untapped av. $15k ≃ 22% yield loss
(Smallholder Farmers) + $500 /year Climate change

[GSMA 2021] [CTA 2020]

The most challenging is getting regular & accurate cropping plans in time !
The Solution
Mobile app based on AI-enabled crop-specific & Climate-resilient models delivering day-to-day cropping plans in
local language

Accessible Affordable Right Answers


Sensor-Free 10 x cheaper 30% Yield increase
Unbaked (USSD pay) Pay-Per-Plan stage-wise advisory

We turned 20 Years on-the-ground experience into Agronomic Algorithms for real-time simulation of crops need !
Crop’s Talk
✓ Your one Stop Destination for Crop Advisories
(Smart irrigation, Fertilization, pest & disease
control, cropping practices, etc.)

✓ Add & manage unlimited crop plots

✓ Receive alerts related to your Crops

✓ Mange Crops issues with SOS Crop Advisories

✓ Locate your nearest input provider Direct-to-


Farm delivery

✓ Take on-line training in local language

✓ Sell your crop yield at higher price

✓ Engage with financial institution


Freemium Business Model for Farmers

Free Premium Viral

Smart irrigation Fertilization Invite Farmer


Pest/Disease
Or
SOS Crop Advisory
Choose a pricing plan
Why Freemium ?

1. Market 2. Completive adv 3. Value prop 4. Cost


Africa 300 M smallholders Our algorithms substitute One click Our algorithms
33 M registered ICT costly tools of existing generation adapt to any crop
solutions in any country
1% CR = 3 M users
= $ 300 M

4 Rules of successful Freemium business


Market Size

$22.1B $2.3B $500 M

WORLDWIDE AFRICA MENA


Digital Agriculture +300 M Smallholder Farmers + 7 M Smallholder
CAGR 9.6% 90% untapped Market 1% market share
≃ $ 5 M / year

Source: Worldwide Digital Agriculture Market Size [2022-2028] Industry Trends, Share, And Growth Analysis
Vantage Market Research. July 25, 2022 ]
Competition
Crop-based Sensor-based Climate-based

Accuracy
climate- & stage-wise

Inclusivity
all farm sizes

Affordability
Hardware-free

Usability
Local language / UX
Focused on Delivering PLANET SCALE IMPACT

Food Security Climate Change BIO-DIVERSITY FINANCIAL INCLUSION


A quarter of the world’s GHG 80% of global deforestation 500 million smallholder
Solving for low yield & crop
emissions come from is a result of agricultural farming households –
failure: Vegetables and
agriculture, forestry & land-use production. represent 2.5 billion people –
legumes yield to drop by
change. Excess use of fertilizers and rely on agricultural production
~35% by 2100.
Enabling Carbon Zero chemicals is impacting soil for their livelihoods.
35-50% food produced goes
farming to curb global warming. health & food safety. Need to enable $0.5 Trn agri
waste annually & results in
Helping adapt food Our Tools helping Monitor, lending globally, of which
25% of wastage of fresh water.
production to climate change Analyze and Improve $170 Bn is unmet demand.
Biodiversity.

Given the complex and scaled challenges in the food and agriculture industry it is essential to enable Food Safety for billio ns of
people by providing Productivity, Predictability & Traceability solutions
Reach on Farming Value Chain

Digitize Farm Access To Knowledge Access To Finance Access To Market Traceability


Management &
Sustainability
Digitize Farm Operation & On-app trainings Loans Access to Inputs Ensure quality
Crop Intelligence Crop-specific content & Insurance Sell farm produce Access to certification

Potential customer/partner Potential customer/partner Potential customer/partner

Strengthen farmers and institutional resilience towards climate changes


Customer Segments
Contract Farming Financial Institutions
Farmers Inputs Companies
Companies
SMSA, Coops & Foundations Food Processing Companies Seed Companies Mico-investment Companies
Smallholder Farmers Exporters & Retailers Agro Chemicals Companies Insurance & Banks

Key Problems Key Problems Key Problems


▪ Extra-contractual marketing ▪ Decentralized digitation via ▪ Decentralized digitation via
and diversion of supplied inputs Field agent is not real time Field agent is not real time
leading to yield reduction and expensive end expensive
▪ Exert farmers to follow ▪ Exert farmers to follow ▪ Exert farmers to follow
Package-of-Practices & Package-of-Practices & Package-of-Practices &
monitor for maximum yield monitor for maximum yield monitor for maximum yield
▪ Digitizing farming activities ▪ Digitizing farming activities ▪ Digitizing farming activities
real time and et scale real time and et scale real time and et scale
Value Offering Value Offering Value Offering
▪ Share advisories and ▪ Analyze performance of ▪ Credit scoring &Assess
documentation with farmers inputs at scale Farmer’s agri worthiness
▪ On-field data at scale with near zero field agents (crop health, water stress, yield prediction,…)
▪ Support and Engage with Farmer’s at scale via reliable communication channel
Business Model

Contract Farming Financial Institutions


Farmers Inputs Companies
Companies
SMSA, Smallholder Farmers Food Processing Companies Seed Companies Mico-investment Companies
Cooperative & Foundations Exporters & Retailers Agro Chemicals Companies Insurance & Banks

B2C B2B B2B2C


Independent Aggregated
Farmers Farmers

Freemium SaaS-based SaaS-based


Subscription Services Services

Adaptable Business Model for each segment


Crop’s Talk Value Proposition
Most important to Farmers
✓ Intuitive Farmer app
✓ Easy to use point of
access for Farmers
✓ On the go & real time ✓ On-demand support
✓ Peer to peer networking critical actionable insights to Farmers
to farmers

✓ Communication channel

Least important to Compagnies Most important to Compagnies

✓ Increased Farmer
Engagement & Loyalty

✓ Power of Distributed devices to


collect on-field data and
monitor farmers activities
Zero Field Agent
Least important to Farmers
Crop’s Talk Impact
Improved
interactions
between Improved
farmer & farmers
company Improvement
awareness,
in productivity engagement
& resilience to and loyalty
climate change

Power of devices to
collect on-field data
and monitor farmer Short even Considerable
activities near zero reduction in
Near Zero response
Dependency on time to solve
agent’s effort &
Field Agent critical crop expenditure
health issue

Empower Farmers to improve their productivity and their climate resilience & Serve value chain players
Traction

15 paying users Paying Pilot Paying Pilot


Tunisia Ivory Coast Senegal

30 K TND
Pre-Seed Fund

November – December 2022


Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture in Senegal – Dakar : Digitizing farming operations for + 3000 smallholder farmers
Ecole Superieure d’Agrnomie Yamousoukrou (Ivoary Coast) : Digitizing farming operations of 80 cooperatives
The Product’s Features Roadmap

Digitize Farm Access To Knowledge Access To Finance Access To Market Traceability


Management
▪ Add unlimited crops ▪ Receive customized ▪ Investment profile ▪ Locate your nearest ▪ Access / Adherence
Features for

▪ Receive Day-to-Day content ▪ planting & yield history input provider to Compliance and
Farmers

advisories ▪ Subscribe to crop- ▪ Engage with Micro- ▪ Order recommended Certification like
▪ Smart irrigation plans specific on app investment institution inputs online Global G.A.P
▪ Fertilization plans training ▪ loan simulation ▪ Direct-to-Farm
▪ Pest & Disease control delivery
▪ Sell you farm produce
2022 2023 2024 2023 2024

▪ Add training / courses ▪ Farmer Profiling ▪ Track inputs distribution ▪ Crop Geo-tagging
Features for
Third party

▪ Add content ▪ Geo-coordinates & plot ▪ track input performance ▪ Report


/ crop profiles per crop per region ▪ Farming activities
▪ Agri-worthiness ▪ Buy farm product history
estimation ▪ Standard conformity

2023 - 2024
Team

Rabeb FERSI Samir CHEBIL Yassine AWADNI Chahine FERSI Sami BEN ROMDHANE

Co-Founder & CEO Co-Founder & CSO CTO Developer Advisor


Agronomist engineer Agronomist engineer & 8 years experience UX/UI Vice President,
7 years experience as Researcher Product Development Mobile app back end Technical Fellow
Farming Counsellor National & International Cybersecurity at eBay
expert Web & Mobile Technologies
20 years experience with San Francisco Bay Area
farmers

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