Developed in 2017, SNS is a joint effort to digitize Rwanda’s national agri-inputs subsidy management under a public-private-partnership (PPP) agreement between BK TecHouse (a business subsidiary of Bank of Kigali Plc.) and the Rwanda Agricultural and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB).
The platform targets end-to-end digitization of the agri-input supply chain management under Rwanda’s Agri-Input Subsidy program and bridging the communication gap between all the stakeholders involved in the agriculture sector.
SNS as SaaS (Software as a Service) and DaaS (Data as a Service) targets all actors involved in the end-to-end supply chain of the agriculture sector and intends to add more business value to the agriculture sector by targeting: Farmers, cooperatives, Government institution, Agri-input dealers, suppliers and distributors, financial institutions such as Commercial banks, SACCOs and Insurance companies, NGOs, Donor bodies and any private sector provider.
SNS enables farmer self-registration capability to allow the application for subsidized agro-inputs on time using USSD short code *774# via cellular phone technology, this process provides visibility on:
Farmer agro-input demand countrywide
The estimated cultivated land size
The agro-input distribution shops
The estimated yield in previous agriculture season
Smart Nkunganire System has had a major impact in all aspects of Agriculture in Rwanda, digitizing and modernizing the whole agri-input subsidy value chain.
Below are some key figures illustrating the impact SNS has had on the main stakeholders as well as testimonials from the actual real people who have been positively impacted by Smart Nkunganire System.
Smart Nkunganire System is the best way to get on the subsidy beneficiary lists. SNS also solved the problem of delay in the agro-inputs delivery across the country
Farmer in Gatsibo District
Farmers
Agro-Dealers
Agronomists
Suppliers
Distributors
Metric tons of Agri-inputs distributed per year
Agro-inputs value distributed per year
Agriculture was a family business not too long ago. Nowadays, automation, scientific advances and better transportation have allowed it to break barriers.