e-mlimi: Transforming Farmer's Lives through Technology

Monday, July 15, 2019

Recurring droughts afflict Malawi’s agriculture sector, threatening the welfare and livelihoods of Malawi’s smallholder farmers, who constitute 80 percent of Malawi’s population. In a country where thirty-eight percent of its population lives below the poverty line, and 47 percent of children are stunted, there's need for a game changer in the Agricultural sector.

To save the situation, World Vision and its partners VisionFund Malawi and Farm Concern International, have a mobile application known as e-mlimi through which farmers are remotely trained on farming practices as well as linked to potential markets.