FarmByte Food Hub platform
Malaysia
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)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution