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UT Day: Getting to Know Our Rural Users through Remote Testing
Users should always be at the center of your design process. When users live in rural areas, getting to know them comes with its own challenges: logistical hurdles, time restrictions, resource limitations, and the list goes on. But this doesn’t mean you get a pass to neglect the process of learning their problems and needs. How do we do this at Jiva?
UT Day: Getting to Know Our Rural Users through Remote Testing
Users should always be at the center of your design process. When users live in rural areas, getting to know them comes with its own challenges: logistical hurdles, time restrictions, resource limitations, and the list goes on. But this doesn’t mean you get a pass to neglect the process of learning their problems and needs. How do we do this at Jiva?
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UT Day: Getting to Know Our Rural Users through Remote Testing
Users should always be at the center of your design process. When users live in rural areas, getting to know them comes with its own challenges: logistical hurdles, time restrictions, resource limitations, and the list goes on. But this doesn’t mean you get a pass to neglect the process of learning their problems and needs. How do we do this at Jiva?
Ramadan bonding: How this holy month brings us closer to the farming community
This Ramadan, Jiva is taking the chance to bond with the rural communities by embracing Ramadan traditions, making connection with the farming communities through a series of events that we ran across six regions in Indonesia.
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Importance of Agricultural Technology For Farmers
Agriculture is the foundation of many economies around the world, and it is critical to feeding the world's growing population. Furthermore, rising food demand necessitates farmers to develop new methods of increasing output and efficiency. As a result, agricultural technology, also known as Agritech, has become the solution for farmers to overcome various operational challenges.
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How does modern technology help farmers in selling their harvest?
Modern technology is revolutionizing the way farmers sell and purchase their harvest. Digital platforms, like websites, mobile apps, and social media spaces, enable farmers to increase their access to a broader pool of potential buyers. This allows them to reach a larger audience and sell their produce at a fair price.
Top 13 Innovations in Agriculture/Farming in 2023
Feeding the rapidly increasing global population amid the climate crisis requires the speed and accuracy that technology provides.
Role of Weather Forecasting in Farming
The importance of weather forecasting in farming must be considered as the world continues to deal with global warming, climate change and its devastating effect on global food production.
What are the most common problems and challenges that farmers face?
Farmers all over the world are plagued by several issues. These problems indirectly and directly affect the farmer’s life. Furthermore, farming practices and other aspects of agriculture can take up resources and time. The problems faced by farmers are typically unnoticed in the food industry. This article aims to highlight the major problems faced by farmers.
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Everything you need to know about Agritech
Agricultural technology, or agri-tech for short, began with the industrial revolution, where machines were used to increase crop production and animal yield. Over the years, it has remained one of the greatest advancements in human history as an excellent development to cushion the teeming global population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. Agricultural technology involves the direct application of machines, Artificial Intelligence, and all other forms of technology to agriculture and its allied fields for higher sustainability.
Are farmers an endangered species?
There are 500 million smallholder farmers worldwide who produce up to 70% of the world’s food. Yet, globally we’re seeing a decline in the overall number of farmers.
Indonesian female farmers are redefining gender roles on the field
Kartini Day - The 21st of April 1879 is a momentous day in Indonesian history, as it marks the birth of Raden Ajeng Kartini; a pioneer of women’s emancipation, equal opportunity, and access to education.
Field trials show 85% see yield uplift with average increase of 40%
Over four growing seasons in South Sulawesi, we have put our agronomy advice to the test through a series of demonstration plots. These plots are live, in-situ tests of how Jiva’s advice before, during and after the growing cycle affects a farmer’s yield.
42 Million, 14 Million, 2 Million…What a year!
Last year, Jiva grew from a handful of passionate people in Singapore to a 200+ employee organization spanning Singapore, Jakarta, Makassar, East Java, Bengaluru, and beyond. Together, we have reached over 60,000 farmers in our debut market, South Sulawesi.
Jiva purchases over 1 MILLION kilograms of corn
Jiva farmers across South Sulawesi hit an impressive milestone this week — 1,000 Metric Tonnes of corn harvested and sold to Jiva. That’s 1 MILLION kilograms!
Latest Blogs
How Can Agri-tech Help Farmers?
In the face of a growing population and food shortages caused by climate change, we need to produce more food and find ways to grow and distribute it more efficiently. With the growing demand for food products worldwide, Agri-tech startups are making it possible for farmers to increase their yields while maintaining healthy plants in less time and for less cost. In this post, we explore the benefits of some of the major agricultural technologies and modern farming techniques to help you put things into perspective.
Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture: Overview, Applications, Challenges & More
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, and agriculture is no exception. This article provides an overview of AI in agriculture, its various applications, benefits, and challenges.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used in Agriculture
What is the role of artificial intelligence in solving the global food crisis and other agricultural problems? To what extent can artificial intelligence be utilized to alleviate the global issue of food inequality? In this article, we'll explore how AI is being used in agriculture, from predicting crop yields to improving soil health, and how it can pave the way for a more sustainable and food-secure future.
What is the future of Agritech?
Just like the ongoing discussion surrounding ChatGPT and the growth of artificial intelligence, the future of agritech has been a trending topic within the agricultural sector, albeit for quite a long time.
Agritech — Making Indian Farming Profitable
Small and marginal farmers in India face a myriad of wicked challenges, as they do elsewhere in the world, that keeps them on the cusp of poverty. With close to 100 million farmers spread throughout the world’s 7th largest country, it’s critical that their issues are addressed in a systematic, and thoughtful way.
Farmer Hasri: the Old and the New
Over the last 2 years, Jiva has run over a hundred demo plots to test the efficacy of our agronomy advisory. The results have been staggering; we’ve seen some farmers increase their yield by 200%.
Introducing Our Company Values
Jiva launched in 2021 with a vision to empower smallholder farmers around the world. Through hundreds of hours of in-field interviews, home visits, and user testing sessions, we developed a unique agriservices platform designed to meet the needs of smallholder farmers around the world. Understanding agronomic processes, the complex agricultural supply chain and the pain points of smallholder farmers was critical in designing a system that could provide our users with low-cost advances, high quality supplies, fair prices and world-class agronomic advice. Today, Jiva empowers farmers across Indonesia by increasing yields and profits, as well as by giving farmers a voice in this big, complex and often unjust industry.
The Straits Times names Jiva among Singapore’s transformative firms
In an article following Deputy Prime Minster Heng Swee Keats’ February 2021 budget address, Straits Times Business Correspondent Choo Yun Ting highlighted Jiva as an example to other enterprises looking to build and grow under the government’s new efforts to drive innovation.
About Jiva
To build an ecosystem founded on innovation dedicated to improving the lives of farmers by providing access to the best possible advice, products and trade services.
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