ICT and AG Profile: Input Tracking System - Armajaro

Supported by USAID’s Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies (FACET) project under the FIELD-Support LWA, this profile discusses Armajaro Trading, which is utilizing barcodes and SMS—linked to their customized GIS—to more effectively track and manage input distribution and usage amongst its 3,000 cotton outgrowers. Although the initiative is fairly new, it is expected to significantly increase efficiencies in input management and tracking, improve transparency (amongst farmers as well as amongst company agents at remote outposts), and reduce misuse.

The FACET project aims to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa use information and communications technology in sustainable and scalable approaches to improve the impact of their agriculture related development projects.