You run a farm
Find out whether your farm is a fit.
Tell us what you farm, its scale, and where it is located. We will come back within five working days and, if it is a fit, arrange a visit.
See if your farm qualifies
Farmci
The data that makes livestock farmers financeable.
The hard part is not finding capital. It is knowing which farm to lend to, on what terms, and how the risk moves after the money arrives. Farmci builds the record that answers those three questions, from the farm itself, every cycle.
Accelerator and programme partners
- TotalEnergies
by UNESCO x Nestlé- Orange Corners
- EIT Food
The problem
A farm can be well run and still be unfinanceable.
Banks lend against documents. Most Nigerian livestock farms cannot produce one, and not because they are badly run. Nothing about how they run is written down in a form a credit committee accepts, so a good farm and a failing farm look the same from the outside. That is a data problem before it is a money problem.
The size of what cannot be read
An industry this large, and almost none of it on paper.
$32bn
Sector value
17%
Of agricultural GDP
30m
Livelihoods supported
How it works
We turn a production cycle into a record a lender can read.
Four stages, from readings taken on the ground to a document put in front of a credit committee. Collect, combine, model, evaluate.
- 01 Collect
Readings from inside the house and the pond
Sensors record the conditions a cycle depends on, from the day the animals arrive to the day they leave.
- 02 Combine
Joined to what the cycle actually cost
What was stocked, what was spent on inputs, and what the animals sold for, all against the same timeline.
- 03 Model
Written up as one cycle that can be compared
Backspace turns a finished cycle into a plain account and sets it against farms running the same system.
- 04 Evaluate
Put in front of the people who lend
Guarantor takes the Farmci Record to banks, insurers and development finance institutions and works out what they need to see.
What it is built from
Four parts. One record.
Two ways in
Do you run a farm, or do you lend to one?
The same record answers both of you. Take the door that is yours.
You lend, insure or invest
See what we would put in front of you.
Ask how the Farmci Record is built, what goes into it, and what it shows when a cycle goes wrong.
See how we assess a farm