Opportunities amid inefficiencies.
Through research and keen observation, Richard had the awareness about some inefficiencies and gaps that some farmers grapple with in managing their farms. This came to light during interactions at the CoRe programme. He quickly moved like an eagle to create a software programme that can potentially bridge the numerous gaps and challenges in farm management.
My name is Richard Narh. I started work as a Software Developer with a start-up company in March 2020.
It has been my intense desire to design a software programme that many would find useful. Amid this aspiration, I received an invite link to join the CoRe programme. I did and joined the Animal farming group. During interactions in my group, I realized that members in my group grappled with many bottlenecks in their farms.
Some of the challenges include the high cost of feed for poultry birds whereas preparing one’s own feed was much cheaper with the right formular, effective management of poultry birds in terms of tracking birds by batches was also a challenge. I went further with research and found out bookkeeping was a major problem with most poultry farmers. I reckoned that upgrading their operations by putting their farm on an online platform can also boost their sales, so I decided to create a software programme to solve these problems.
Having gained a lot of knowledge and inspiration through the many sessions of the CoRe programme especially sessions on talent development, I put the knowledge to work and to the glory of God
I designed a software by name Khofarm; a farm management software, with different features to help farmers.
Some of its features are:
- Sales/Invoice (Income) processing
- Bills/Expenses processing
- Animal feed setup and configuration (Setting up a custom feed formulation chart for a poultry farm)
- Farm production (Effective management of batches of birds)
- Updates on reports and farmer to farmer business module is ongoing.
- Emailing and SMS using the platform will also be completed soon.
The programme audios helped me a lot and my life has been impacted greatly. I’ve gleaned much information about planning, consistency, putting talent to use, discipline and good attitude towards completing a task. This and many more skills acquired from the programme made it possible for me to execute this project. I intend upgrading the software from time to time whenever necessary.
Many thanks to the CoRe mentoring programme.