A national agronomist, for every officer and every grower.
Food security is decided plot by plot. ORTH puts the national protocols on every extension officer's and every grower's phone, in the local language, and sends the programme its adoption, pressure and crop-development data by region every season.
Your mandate covers productivity, resilience, safe food and farm incomes. One officer covers thousands of growers. Extension reaches a fraction of them, a few times a season, and the record of what was advised stays in a notebook.
ORTH gives every grower in the programme an agronomist on their phone, every day, in their own language, working from the national protocols, the approved-input lists and the residue limits of the markets the country sells into.
Three things a programme is for.
Food security
Yield is protected at the irrigation call, the spray window and the nutrition plan. ORTH makes each one to the national protocol, on every plot, every day.
The whole local food chain
Smallholders, cooperatives, extension officers, input dealers and packhouses on one standard, so the recommendation the officer gives and the one the grower gets are the same recommendation.
Best practice at national scale
Programme protocols, approved-input lists and regional calendars encoded once and applied everywhere. Revised once, and every region has it the same day.
The national protocols, from the manual to the field.
How a public extension programme reaches growers today, and how it reaches them with ORTH.
Every grower, every day, at a fraction of the visit.
What ORTH is worth to a public extension programme.
Technical advice at USD 1 per recommendation instead of USD 1,000 per technical visit.
Growers get an answer every day instead of a technical visit once a quarter. 90 times the contact.
73% of surveyed growers report a real difference to their operation. Half call ORTH their primary source of agronomic advice.
What you get with ORTH.
The daily brief for every officer across the farms they cover, so the visit goes where the pressure is building.
Growers ask ORTH on their own plots, in their own language, instead of waiting for the next visit. ORTH works in any language and runs offline on the mid-range Android phones most growers already carry.
The national protocols, approved-input lists and regional calendars built in, so the officer and the grower get the same recommendation, checked against the residue limits of the markets the country sells into.
Early warning by region and crop: disease and pest pressure raised as field notes and weather come in, to the officer covering the area and to the ministry.
Programme data each season: adoption, pressures by region and crop, crop development through the season and the record the programme reports on, aggregated, with no manual re-keying.
Cooperatives and input dealers on the same standard as the officers, so the advice at the counter and the advice in the field agree.
How it starts.
The programme’s data stays the programme’s.
Enterprise, sized to the programme.
The national standard, in every officer’s and every grower’s hands.
For a group, a network and its growers.
Seats for officers and growers, a dedicated environment, programme reporting each season.
- National protocols and approved-input lists behind every answer, in the local language.
- Your protocols behind every answer, on every farm.
- A private instance. Your data, exportable at any time.
- Validated by your own agronomists before rollout.