Sat4Rice
Viet Nam
Developed by Nelen & Schuurmans Ltd., Sat4Rice is a real-time growth monitoring system which uses a combination of satellite data and field data to provide both actionable advice to smallholder farmers and business intelligence information to agribusinesses. It provides accurate insights on rice growing conditions which provides farmers, extension workers and traders with valuable information that helps them become more efficient. The app allows data to be entered from the field, which integrated with satellite data in real-time. The resulting information in the database is then used both in the smartphone app for farmers, and in the professional desktop portal for agribusinesses. The first successful implementation of Sat4Rice was in the Mekong delta in Vietnam, where over 50,000 smallholder farmers have been reached with the service. Sat4Rice is also being implemented in Pakistan, and collaborations in other South East Asian countries have started up as well.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, Farm management services
Delivery type (format)
Monitoring systems (wireless, solar powered etc.)
Mobile app
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Nelen & Schuurmans Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , Extension agents , Traders
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (widespread use nationally)
Number of users or subscribers
The first successful implementation of Sat4Rice was in the Mekong delta in Vietnam, where over 50,000 smallholder farmers have been reached with the service. Sat4Rice is also being implemented in Pakistan, and collaborations in other South East Asian countries have started up as well. Source: Developer website
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Vietnam and few other countries
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