WIDYA
Sri Lanka
WIDYA is a mobile app based technology platform that coordinates, enhances and facilitates the exchange of knowledge, material and money amongst stakeholders in the agrifood industry. It helps smallholder farmers by providing them with 1) Higher Yields: Near real-time, best practice information on what to grow and how much, as well as pest and disease management, to the mobile devices of smallholder farmers, increasing yields 2) Higher Farm-Gate Prices: Aggregating harvest data of smallholder farmers and linkages to wholesale buyers resulting in higher value contracts and 3) Supply Chain Efficiencies: Aggregation of farmer input requirements, enabling better planning and management through the supply chain.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services
Market and price data analytics, Supply chain management
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
WIDYA Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Traders , Value chain actors
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Sri Lanka
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes