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Why Divisi

A farm notebook is a genuinely good habit — a farmer who keeps one is already ahead of most. But a notebook only remembers. It can't warn you, add up, or search.

It won't tell you a hailstorm is three days out. It won't add a season of receipts into a figure that shows whether groundnuts actually paid. It won't find what you sprayed on the far field last March while you're standing in a shop deciding what to buy. And paper is fragile — one shed fire, one wet season or one rat is enough to take years of the farm's history with it.

Divisi keeps the same notes, with photo attachments, and works offline so it's there everywhere the pen is. Then it does the parts a book can't: it reminds, it totals, it warns — and it keeps every record and photo durable and safe, ready to pull up years down the road, in a form a buyer or a lender will actually accept. Plenty of farmers keep both — that's fine.

Divisi keeps working. It's offline-first by design, not as a fallback — once your farm is set up, your crop recommendations, season plan, task guides, diary and ledger live on the phone itself.

With zero bundles you can still open a guide, record what you did today, log an expense, photograph a diseased leaf and check your plan. Everything you enter offline is saved and syncs by itself when a connection returns. You never have to remember to do anything.

The only parts that genuinely need the network are the ones that have to be fresh: new weather forecasts and warnings, and the Farmer Hive feed. The app is built light for budget phones and slow networks, and photos wait for a connection instead of eating a bundle the moment you take them.

Those forecast a town or a district. Divisi forecasts the coordinates of your field — and in a thunderstorm season, the gap between your farm and the nearest weather station is the gap between a soaked crop and a dry one.

The bigger difference is what happens after the forecast. A weather app tells you it will be 38°C on Thursday, and stops. Divisi knows you planted maize five weeks ago, knows it's entering tasselling — the stage where heat costs the most grain — and tells you what to do before Thursday arrives.

And a radio bulletin is at six o'clock whether the risk appears at six or not. Keep your weather app. This is a farming instruction, not a forecast.

Yes — it's one of the things Divisi is best at. Add your workers or your farm manager to the farm and everyone works from the same season plan. You assign the task, they mark it done, and it lands in the farm record with the date and a photo.

From town you can see that the weeding actually happened on Tuesday, what the fertiliser cost, and what the maize looked like this morning — instead of relying on a phone call and someone's memory.

It works the other way too: your team gets the same weather warnings and task reminders you do, so the right thing gets done on the day you would have told them to do it — whether or not you managed to call. Roles decide who can change what, and it's free, like everything else.

Your farm records are private by default. Diary entries, field boundaries, yields and ledger figures are visible only to you unless you choose otherwise, and nothing reaches the Farmer Hive unless you post it, one item at a time.

If you join an organisation's outgrower programme you agree to that explicitly, and only the records relevant to that programme are shared — one programme never sees another's farms.

Divisi does not sell farm data. Not to input companies, not to buyers, not to data brokers. That's exactly why the app is funded by the organisations running programmes on it rather than by advertising or data sales — the business model is the privacy policy. Data is encrypted in transit, and you can delete your account and your records at any time. Read the privacy policy →

Using Divisi

Yes — fully. Once you've set up your farm profile, the app stores your crop advice, planting calendars, and farm diary data locally. You can record observations, view recommendations, and access your history with zero data connection. Data syncs automatically when you reconnect.

Yes. Divisi watches the hyper-local forecast for your exact farm and alerts you early when a heatwave, storm, flood or dry spell is coming — with practical prevention and mitigation steps, so you protect your crops and animals before losses happen.

Yes, completely. Every feature is free for every farmer — crop recommendations, the full guides and task reminders, the farm diary, the ledger, the Farmer Hive and 7-day weather. No paid tier, no trial clock, no card on file. Divisi is funded by the organisations that run outgrower programmes on it — not by charging you, and not by selling your data.

Yes. Divisi Enterprise gives organisations running outgrower programmes ground-truth visibility across member farms — the field records, tasks and yields farmers capture through the programme — plus remote, supplementary agronomic support when extreme situations hit. Better decisions, far fewer manual field visits. Explore Divisi Enterprise →

Divisi works anywhere in the world. Our focus is smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing regions — across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America — but anyone, anywhere can sign up and use it. Weather data and crop advice are all set to exactly where you farm, so it works just as well in rural Zimbabwe as in rural Indonesia.

Divisi covers the most common staple and commercial crops across the region — including maize, tomatoes, cassava, groundnuts, sorghum, beans, sweet potato, and many others. Our catalogue grows regularly and you can request crops not yet listed.

Yes. The built-in farm ledger lets you record expenses (seed, fertiliser, labour, fuel, transport) and sales in seconds — for the whole farm or per crop, in your local currency. At a glance you see what the season really cost and earned, so you know which crops pay.

Yes — Divisi is on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. You can also try the free crop check on the web at divisi.africa/what-grows in any browser, without installing anything.

Divisi is available in English, Shona, Swahili, French, and Yoruba, with more languages in progress. You can change your language in settings at any time.

Absolutely — it was designed for small-scale and subsistence farmers first. Whether you farm half an acre or fifty, the advice is built for your real conditions, not a commercial operation. The app is lightweight and works on budget Android phones.

Still have questions?

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From general advice to a plan for your own farm

These are general guides. Divisi turns them into a dated plan for your own fields — optimal planting dates, a reminder as each task falls due, your diary and ledger, and extreme-weather alerts. Free for farmers, light on data, works offline.

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