FarmByte Food Hub platform

The Food Hub platform is a technology-driven agro-food ecosystem which aims to support farmers with simple digital tools, market intelligence and real-time production schedules. It makes the lives of farmers easier, transform agro-food sector and create opportunities using the farm-to-fork strategy through a digital-first approach. FarmByte Food Hub mobile app, as part of the ecosystem, provides farmers with access to personalized advice and analytics and helps to expand their knowledge of expert farming practices. It's tools and analytics enables farmers to maximize production and make their businesses more efficient. It enhances farming skills and knowledge. The FarmBye Food Hub consists of a network of farmers, processors, distributors, retailers and wholesalers connected through a hybrid setting of physical and digital centers which allows for the sustainable production of high-quality and high-value agro-food products. The network aims to integrate all activities in the value chain to create efficiencies, transparency and trust from production to distribution. It also aims to boost Malaysian state Johor’s food supply chains by creating a sustainable agro-food ecosystem that will contribute to the national and state food security agenda.

Lead (category)

Private enterprise (Agritech startup)

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

FarmByte Sdn Bhd

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

DI ICT-deliverables format

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Agribusiness / private organization

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Malaysia

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution