Field notes

Research, product updates and stories from the frontlines of Nigerian agriculture.

AIJune 2026

How we cut Tuta absoluta misdiagnosis by 38%

A look at the data pipeline behind our Crop Doctor vision model and the Nigerian-specific tomato dataset we built.

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SatelliteMay 2026

Reading NDVI for smallholders under 1 hectare

Why Sentinel-2 alone isn't enough for fragmented farms — and how we fuse climate signals to fill the gap.

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ClimateMay 2026

Rainfall is shifting in the Middle Belt. Here's the data.

Five seasons of Open-Meteo + station data show planting windows moving 9–14 days later in Benue and Plateau.

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FinanceApril 2026

Designing credit scores from farm activity, not collateral

How agritech data can unlock formal credit for the 70% of Nigerian farmers banks currently refuse.

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AgronomyApril 2026

Maize in 2026: what changed and what to plant

Variety guidance from our agronomists across the Northern Guinea and Sudan savannahs.

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ProductMarch 2026

Building for 2G: lessons from 18 months in the field

Our mobile-first, offline-first principles — and the trade-offs we made to keep AgroForth usable on a ₦15,000 phone.

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