The farmers we grew up around keep meticulous records - just not on paper. They know which hen went off lay, which goat kidded last, which buyer paid late. That knowledge lives in their heads and in one battered notebook per farm.
When that notebook gets wet, or the son who kept the numbers moves to Accra, the farm loses years of context. We watched it happen more than once.
What we set out to build
We wanted a tool that felt more like the notebook and less like enterprise software:
- Works offline first. Signal is a bonus, not a requirement.
- Ghana cedis by default. No dollar-denominated finance that has to be re-translated.
- Straightforward records - animals, expenses, income, health - not a 30-tab spreadsheet.
- A place to ask real questions of real farmers, which became AgroChat.
Why direct dealing on the Marketplace
We deliberately don't hold payments and don't take commission on Marketplace sales. Farmers already know how to close a deal - what they needed was reach beyond their village. FamRite gives them that reach and then gets out of the way.
We're a Ghana-based team at SUPPATRADE and we're building this for the long haul. Thanks for trying it - tell us what's broken and what's missing at support@famrite.com.