SmartNoma is the digital agricultural extension platform built for institutions operating at last-mile scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. We give your extension agents verified, offline-ready agronomic guidance — and give your programme team real-time field visibility and automated M&E compliance reporting.
The problem
Nigeria's agricultural extension system runs at roughly one agent to every 10,000 farmers — far beyond the FAO-recommended ratio of about 1:800 to 1:1,000. In practice, most smallholder farmers in Northern Nigeria receive expert agronomic advice less than once a growing season, if at all — a gap widely documented in FAO extension guidance and Nigerian agricultural-sector reporting.
Most farmers in your network never receive verified guidance. Your programme reports reach — but not advisory quality.
You cannot confirm whether extension agents visited farms, what advice was delivered, or whether it matched validated protocols.
Reconciling paper field records into M&E reports takes weeks of manual work — and still produces data that donors question.
SmartNoma exists to resolve all three — with a single platform designed for last-mile agricultural programme delivery.
How it works
SmartNoma does not replace your extension agents. It multiplies what each one can deliver — by converting peer-reviewed science into simple, offline-ready tools they can use in the field, and by giving your programme team complete visibility over every interaction.
Each Action Card is generated from iSDA soil data, CGIAR AgWise models, and IITA AKILIMO protocols — personalised to the farm's GPS coordinates, crop type, and growth stage. Cards are cached on the agent's Android device and remain fully accessible with zero network connection.
Pre-generated Hausa audio is embedded in every Action Card. Farmers receive guidance they can hear and act on — without needing to read, and without the agent needing to memorise or improvise.
Who it's for
Deploy expert agronomic advisory across thousands of farmers without proportionally expanding your field team. Generate donor-ready evidence with a single export.
Standardise the advisory quality your agents deliver across your farmer network. Track compliance, identify input needs, and reduce crop loss from poor timing decisions.
Equip your agents with validated, offline-ready tools that work in the field environments they actually operate in — with no dependency on internet connectivity.
Why SmartNoma
Not a chatbot — SmartNoma does not generate advice from the open internet. Every recommendation is retrieved from named institutional sources — CGIAR, IITA, and iSDA. No hallucination risk. No unverifiable outputs.
Offline-first architecture — This is not an offline mode added as an afterthought. The platform is built around zero-connectivity field delivery. Your agents work in the last mile. So does SmartNoma.
Audit trail from day one — Every advisory is logged with timestamp, GPS location, agent ID, and source attribution. Donor reporting is not an export task — it is a by-product of normal programme operation.
Human-in-the-loop escalation — When a farm situation exceeds the system's data confidence, SmartNoma flags it and prompts the agent to escalate to a qualified specialist. The AI defers to humans where it should.
Low-cost hardware compatible — SmartNoma runs on the Android devices your agents already carry. No specialist hardware procurement. No IT overhead.
Book a 30-minute demonstration to see the Extension Multiplier dashboard, the offline Action Card workflow, and a live M&E report export. No commitment required.
SmartNoma combines CGIAR-sourced soil science, offline-first delivery, native-language audio, and donor-ready audit trails in a single system — purpose-built for last-mile agricultural programme delivery.
Your programme-manager dashboard shows every farm visit, advisory delivered, and farmer interaction across your network in real time. Identify coverage gaps, inactive agents, and underserved clusters before they become programme failures.
Every advisory delivered, every farm visit logged, every Action Card generated creates a timestamped audit record. Export verified field data in formats aligned with major donor frameworks (e.g. USAID, FCDO, AGRA). Generate your quarterly impact report in hours, not weeks.
Every recommendation SmartNoma generates includes full source attribution. The scientific institution behind each piece of advice is named on the card — giving your technical team, your field agents, and your donors confidence in what farmers receive.
Require grantees and investees to implement SmartNoma as their M&E backbone — and receive verified, timestamped field data rather than self-reported tallies.