How Agri Start-Up Skudu Connects Farmers To Buyers
How Agri Start-Up Skudu Connects Farmers To Buyers. Skudu an agricultural start-up has more than 80 years of collective experience in the agricultural input supply and product marketing sectors. Drawing from this experience it became convinced that there is a better way. Buying inputs or selling produce should not be difficult, at Skudu it is its mission to put their clients in control by giving its clients more options whilst saving them time and money.
Skudu Market offers them the power of choice. It shortens the chain and speeds up their decision-making. Skudu also matches their production to off-takers interested in their crop. At Skudu it is its goal to give its clients direct access to more farmers and enables them to serve them better. Skudu connects soil and plant needs to their client’s fertilizer products. Skudu Match is the direct link between farmers and buyers of their crops.
Companies such as AgVentures have invested in Skudu. AgVentures is Africa’s leading agrifood tech investor. The company invests in privately-owned agrifood companies with the potential to transform the African agrifood sector due to their innovative technology and dynamic entrepreneurship. It is more than an investor as it has become a partner and it assists investee companies to build their businesses and expand across Africa. The company’s head office is in South Africa.
Specno is a key shareholder in Skudu and has been its development partner since inception. Specno prides itself on being more than just a development agency, they are innovation specialists. Their development team take investees from idea to market leader with their innovative workflows and processes.
Skudu helps its clients to find the best price for their next input purchase in a few easy steps, they get quotes for farm inputs from multiple suppliers and compare their quotes side by side. Skudu also assists its clients to get an independent, scientifically formulated plant nutrition program as they can import or add their field boundaries, import their soil and/or leaf analysis results. They can also let their proprietary Skudu Exact algorithm generate their plant nutrition plan.
It offers its clients help in selling their crops directly and maximise their profit! Clients can scout the market for buyers, tell them what they want to sell by creating a lot. Skudu then intelligently matches their lot to buyers.
