Deshifarmer
Bangladesh
DeshiFarmer is a Bangladeshi multi-agricultural stakeholder platform that provides services to farmers including agri-inputs, crop advisory, sorting, grading and packaging. With DeshiFarmer’s current solution, farmers can purchase agri-inputs and machinery, receive direct financial support from formal institutions and can apply for insurance for their crops. They have also managed to onboard channel partners as distributors. The company has outlined a strategic roadmap where they aim to offer embedded finance with built in crop insurance, export fresh produce, diversify their business model by marketing the findings of their data analytics to different stakeholders and own their own agri-input and machinery brand in the next few years. DeshiFarmer has received a mixture of grants and angel investment to assist the company in launching and kicking off its operations. The startup received $142,000 in grants from SwissContact, USAID and Banghabandhu Innovation Grant (BIG). The founders own collective investment amounted to $150,000 while angel investment totaled approximately $200,000.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services
Market and price data analytics
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Deshifarmer Limited
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Value chain actors , Traders
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
26,000 Farmers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
During the last 2 years of its operations, DeshiFarmer has provided 56,000 hours of advisory to over 26,000 farmers and earned over $1.4 million in revenue across more than 11 locations.
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Bangladesh
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital initiatives