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ShambaPal – Farm Management App

Client: ShambaPal

ShambaPal is a mobile-first farm management application built for smallholder farmers in Kenya. It brings modern agricultural tools — crop tracking, expense logging, harvest records, and advisory alerts — to farmers' phones via a React Native app.

The Challenge

Smallholder farmers in Kenya operate almost entirely without digital tools. Planting records, input costs, and harvest data live in notebooks or nowhere at all. Without structured records, farmers can't access credit, can't track profitability, and can't make data-driven decisions.

No digital record-keeping for planting cycles, inputs, or harvests

Farmers unable to access credit without financial history

Difficulty tracking farm profitability across seasons

Low smartphone literacy requiring a very simple, Swahili-friendly UI

Unreliable internet access in rural areas

The Solution

We built ShambaPal as a React Native mobile app optimized for low-bandwidth environments. The interface is built for simplicity — large touch targets, minimal text, and a flow that mirrors how farmers already think about their work.

Crop planning and planting cycle tracker

Input and expense logging (seeds, fertiliser, labour)

Harvest recording with per-season profit calculation

Weather alerts and crop advisory notifications

Offline-first architecture — works without internet

Swahili and English language support

Tech Stack

React NativeExpoFirebaseTypeScript

Measurable Impact

200+

Farmers

Active users across Kenya's farming regions

100%

Offline Support

Core features work without internet

iOS + Android

Platforms

Single codebase deployed to both stores

"Before ShambaPal, I was writing everything in a notebook that I kept losing. Now I can see exactly what I spent and what I earned from each season, right on my phone."

Farmer, Nakuru County

ShambaPal Early User

Project Timeline

User Research

2 weeks

Visited farms in Nakuru and Kiambu to observe how farmers currently keep records

UI/UX Design

2 weeks

Designed a simplified mobile UI tested with farmers who had never used an app before

Core Development

8 weeks

Built crop, expense, and harvest tracking modules with offline-first Firebase sync

Field Testing

2 weeks

Tested with 15 farmers, iterated on confusing flows, added Swahili translations

Launch

1 week

Deployed to Expo and submitted to Play Store and App Store

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The Challenge

No digital record-keeping for planting cycles, inputs, or harvests

Farmers unable to access credit without financial history

Difficulty tracking farm profitability across seasons

Low smartphone literacy requiring a very simple, Swahili-friendly UI

Unreliable internet access in rural areas

The Solution

Crop planning and planting cycle tracker

Input and expense logging (seeds, fertiliser, labour)

Harvest recording with per-season profit calculation

Weather alerts and crop advisory notifications

Offline-first architecture — works without internet

Swahili and English language support

Project Timeline

User Research

2 weeks

Visited farms in Nakuru and Kiambu to observe how farmers currently keep records

UI/UX Design

2 weeks

Designed a simplified mobile UI tested with farmers who had never used an app before

Core Development

8 weeks

Built crop, expense, and harvest tracking modules with offline-first Firebase sync

Field Testing

2 weeks

Tested with 15 farmers, iterated on confusing flows, added Swahili translations

Launch

1 week

Deployed to Expo and submitted to Play Store and App Store