eMlimi is an Android-based mobile application that brings together buyers, farmers and other actors to benefit from aggregation of commodities in Malawi villages, enhance access to appropriate extension information, market information, weather information, nutrition information among others.
The application facilitate efficient trade of agricultural commodities, consumer goods and other services. Buyers, farmers, extension service providers, private companies and BDS providers registers into the platform and access services such as;
- Agronomic information on various commodities (right from land preparation to post-harvest management)
- Commercialization information
- Aggregated agri-commodities
- Nutrition Information
- Quality standards and specification
- Prices and price trends
- Reliable and verified buyers/markets season by season
- Business development service providers
- Community Empowerment and Visioning
- Weather and climate resilience & adaptation enhancement information
The platform is accessible on Google Play Store and can be accessed by users of Android phone. eMlimi platform objectives includes:
- Improved access to markets for farmers increasing household incomes
- To facilitate access to agri-services information for improved profitability
- Improve access to market information and market services for enterprise competitiveness
- To open up new market landscape for farmers, input companies, buyers and BDS providers
- To widen the outreach and serve millions of farmers
- Available appropriate technologies and resources to extension workers and farmers in the language that they can understand