Agro-Norm
An agronomist in every farmer's pocket.
Agro-Norm helps farmers track every activity on their land — planting, fertilizing, labor payments, harvest — and turns that history into personalized agricultural advice through a multi-modal AI assistant that speaks Kinyarwanda, French, and English.
A typical small-holder farmer in Rwanda manages multiple plots, multiple crops, and multiple seasonal cycles — entirely from memory. When pests appear, when leaves yellow, when a labor cost spikes: there is no log to look back on, no second opinion to call, no agronomist on speed-dial.
When advice is available, it is often in the wrong language, generic instead of local, and not connected to what the farmer actually did this season.
Agro-Norm closes that gap with a simple, durable record-keeping tool and a context-aware AI assistant in one app.
Each feature works alone, but together they compound — every farm log makes the AI's answer better, every AI answer encourages another log.
Quick, structured entries for every meaningful event on the farm. Each log is dated, categorised, and can include a Rwandan-franc amount, a description, a photo, and a mapped polygon of the affected area.
A multi-modal agricultural assistant trained on Rwandan growing seasons and regional crops. Ask a question in text, attach a photo of a leaf, and get a concrete, season-aware answer in seconds.
The app ships with a curated library of agricultural answers from the Rwanda Agriculture Board, MINAGRI, and FAO. For common questions, the answer appears instantly — even with no internet — and only falls back to the AI when the question is novel.
Every screen, every error message, every AI response respects the farmer's language preference — set once at sign-up, switchable any time from the profile.
No complex setup. No paid tier required to begin. No dependencies on village-level infrastructure beyond an Android phone and an occasional connection.
Name, email, language. Optional phone and farm location. Your data is yours; nothing is shared with another farmer.
Each time you plant, pay labor, spray, or harvest, open the app, pick the activity type, add a note and amount, and save. Optionally attach a photo or map the plot.
"Why are my maize leaves yellow?" "When should I plant beans in Musanze?" Photo of a sick coffee leaf. The assistant uses your recent logs to ground its answer.
Review your timeline. See what you spent on each crop, what gave the best yield, what to do differently. Carry the lesson into the next planting window.
Photo-based diagnosis flags pest and disease symptoms before they spread across the plot.
Labor and input costs become a record you can review, not a number you struggle to recall.
Specific guidance on dose, timing and product — not "use more fertilizer." Less waste, better yields.
Kinyarwanda, French, or English — the same answer, written naturally in the language you read.
The most common questions are answered from on-device knowledge. The internet is optional, not required.
Your farm history is durable, portable, and yours. Useful for cooperatives, lenders, and your own planning.