Community Farming

Farming At Its Natural Best

Over 80% of farmers in India own less than just 2 acres of land. With limited resources, they can’t better or increase their yield. With small produce and no access to bigger markets, they are compelled to accept the price dictated by middlemen. Leaf™ is here to change this situation.

Right from soil testing, Leaf™ community farming interventions are designed to enhance every stage of the crop life cycle. Its integrated supply chain promises what the farmers and end users deserve.

Impact of Leaf

Best Quality & Price

Leaf Farmer Network (LFN) seamlessly brings in access to good quality produce at scale, enables price negotiation with complete transparency, and manages end-to-end logistics with quality control. The entire process is managed by farmers, with support from an on-ground team of LFN. LFN supports the farmers through comprehensive training and capacity building in the entire lifecycle of the harvest, including post-harvest management to reduce wastage. The core of LFN is digitizing the produce-buying process. It is a high-touch model through a dedicated on-ground farmer advisory and change management team.

State-of-Art Facilities

LEAF, through agri business & extension management platform, transforming
the lives of Indian marginalized farmers by driving transparency, leveraging the strengths of people, data insights, technology, and creating solutions for sustainable, inclusive growth. LFN provides 360-degree intervention and improves transparency in agri extension service platform for soil & crop health while ensuring that the value is retained within the ecosystem.

The agrarian ecosystem players are hampered by a lack of transparent access to actionable information. Digitization through LFN, solves this challenge by integrating a virtuous loop between farmers and markets, giving better access to information. It will leverage the power of digital technologies to bring together key stakeholders across the agriculture value chain to ensure that farmers get direct access to the knowledge, skills, and markets that they currently lack.

Scientific Testing:- Research & Development

Every product that we introduce to the market, is backed by rigorous R&D. It includes:

An expert R&D team including 7Scientists

Focused on formulating new requirements

A state-of-the-art Central Lab

Well-equipped facility to analyze a wide range of samples

A team of experienced Technologists

LEAF Farmer Network – The Phygital Platform:

Reducing carbon emissions, working towards sustainable agriculture through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

LFN technology platforms helps promote sustainable agricultural processes and uplift smallholder farmers. The deep tech capabilities combine the power of satellite-based big data, AI/ML, and grid-based polygon maps.

This unlocks opportunities:

To increase yields

Support fertilizer design with optimum bio-alternates reducing emissions

Remote crop and field monitoring

The platform allows farmers to check the chemical composition of soil and change their techniques accordingly. The platform processes weather, market, soil, farmland, and vegetation data, and interprets it into insights related to credit creation for farmers, agricultural advisory for intelligent farming, soil health checks, and carbon-offset analytics.

Bringing the best of technology with specialized human intervention

LEAF, through its technology platform, LEAF Farmer Network, is transforming the lives of Indian marginalized farmers by driving transparency, leveraging the strengths of people, data insights, and technology, and creating solutions for sustainable, inclusive growth. LFN provides 360-degree intervention and improves transparency in agriculture while ensuring that the value is retained within the ecosystem.

Smallholder farmers, who account for more than 80% of India’s agrarian economy, are often at the mercy of severe opacity. Be it in sourcing quality farming products, realizing optimum value for their harvest, or using formal credit channels for payments, farmers are facing challenges at every step.

The agrarian ecosystem players are hampered by a lack of transparent access to actionable information. Digitization, through LFN, solves this challenge by integrating a virtuous loop between farmers and markets, giving better access to information. It will leverage the power of digital technologies to bring together key stakeholders across the agriculture value chain to ensure that farmers get direct access to the knowledge, skills, and markets that they currently lack.

Soil Management

A foundational Strategy for conservation…..soil is more than just a geological backdrop-healthy soil is the basis of all life and provides water, clean air, a stable climate, and good health. With the launch of our Global Soil Initiative, we are starting to connect more of the dots on the role soils play in our work. The connection between soil and climate is perhaps the area of this work receiving the most public interest.

Healthy soil means healthy landscapes and water systems-proven ways of both storing carbon and reducing carbon emissions in the world’s grasslands and wetlands. At the same time, the Sustainable Development Goals call out the importance of soil for sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security, and restoration of terrestrial ecosystems. Better soil management can create all sorts of “Happy Coincidences”.

LEAF Farmer Network - LFN

HighTech – HighTouch hybrid platform to bring significant value to agriculture ecosystem Powered by deep technology expertise of Mastercard.

Platform that digitizes:

Marketplaces
Payments
Workflows
Farmer transaction histories

Connects buyers, suppliers, agtechs, and banks with farmers digitally
Equip FPOs to effectively serve their members
Commercially sustainable ecosystem comprising all relevant Agri value chain players with equitable commercial exchange mechanisms

Agri advisory

Agri Input suppliers

Financial Inst.

VAS providers

FPOS

Buyers

LFN seamlessly brings in access to good quality produce at scale, enables price negotiation with complete transparency, and manages end-to-end logistics with quality control. The entire process is managed by farmers, with support from an on-ground team of LFN. LEAF Farmer Network digitizes marketplaces, payments, workflows, and farmer transaction histories by connecting buyers, farming inputs, suppliers, AgTechs, and banks with FPOs/farmers, helping to create a commercially sustainable ecosystem comprising all relevant agriculture value chain players with equitable commercial exchange mechanisms. LFN supports the farmers through comprehensive training and capacity building in the entire lifecycle of the harvest, including post-harvest management to reduce wastage. The core of LFN is digitizing the produce-buying process. It is a high-touch model through a dedicated on-ground farmer advisory and change management team. It is enabled by a rural relevant, secure phone driven and internet-agnostic technology.

GREENHOUSE ADVANTAGES

Greenhouses are climate-controlled structures for growing high-quality saplings. Leaf™ advises the use of it for growing off-season vegetables, fruit crops for the domestic market, planting material acclimatization, plant breeding, and varietals improvement. This man-made structure is designed to reap the benefits of nature.

LFN solves the organized, cost-effective financial challenge

Banks are struggling to serve the rural ecosystem effectively as incomes are largely paid in cash, which leads to the economy is largely cash-based, low account balances, and high servicing costs for banks. Additionally, most farmers do not have a formal credit history, and it is difficult for them to access any formal financial services. Enabling digital payments for farmers through LFN will drive active account usage for farmers. With this platform, farmers will get paid through their bank accounts or cards designed for offline rural usage, providing liquidity of the digital money, instead of going to their bank branches or business agents in nearby towns.

Supply

Enables hassle free logistics
Smooth transaction between market and farmers

Market linkage

Enables buyers in the ecosystem to purchase directly from farmers/FPO

Payments

Process payments directly to farmer bank accounts

Banks

Post-harvest credit to farmers
Trade financing to buyer

Farmer

Good Agri Practices
Market linkage to sell produce from farmgate

Farmer Organisations (FPOs)

Capacity building
Farmer engagement
Business acumen

Financial Inclusion

Train Farmers to use bank / digital payments.
Enables card payments at rural merchant ecosystem

Credit / Lending

Enables inputs and post -harvest credit to farmers.
Enable FPOs to access credit and improve the scale of transactions.

This will eventually enable farmers to save more money and entice them away from unofficial money lenders. Financial inclusion also serves as positive reinforcement for farmers to use formal channels for payments, which builds their credit profile and makes them eligible for loans from financial institutions.

Community Farming