For agriculture departments, development agencies and farmer programmes
Know what every farm is producing.
See where production is at risk.
Mothusi gives your programme one current Farm Record for every farmer, live production and field activity across districts, early warning where output is at risk, and a controlled bridge between credible supply and real demand.
One record per farmer · Live production · Field evidence · Early warning · Market access
1 · The operating picture
See the whole farmer network in the past 30 days.
Every active farmer has a current Farm Record. That makes one live view possible: who is reporting, what is being produced, which farms are selling, where support is needed and which districts are at risk, updated as reports, visits and evidence are submitted.
42Moses Kotane · Madibeng · input shortages · support routed
31Kgetlengrivier · delayed planting · flagged in week two
14Rustenburg East · poultry mortality · veterinary response opened
9Moretele · water interruptions · tankering arranged
of 260 planned this month · 184 photo & video verified
District-hospital order · 5,000 broilers / month · 16 farms matched, 4,620 committed on current production records · veterinary sign-off attached.
Product UI · illustrative data
This is the view a programme director opens first: production, risk and field delivery across the network, not a quarterly summary of what already happened.
2 · The record underneath
One current Farm Record for every farmer.
The network view is only possible because each farmer has one structured record that stays current. It carries two positions the programme reads separately: the farm as a business, measured on the MGS standard, and each commodity, measured by where it is in its production cycle.
The farm as a business
The MGS standard
Whether the farm is becoming a stronger, more credible business: maturity tier, open levers, evidence confidence and the next business action.
Each commodity
The production cycle
What is happening in production now: cycle stage, expected output and sale date, mortality, feed runway and current production risk.
PositionMGS 46 · Forming tier
Open leverFinancial records incomplete
EvidenceRecords to May · document-verified
Next actionComplete monthly financial records
Broilers397 in cycle · day 27 of 42
Expected sale18 Nov · ~382 birds after losses
Mortality15 to date · 3.8% · within range
Feed runway10 days · short of the sale date
Cattle 34 head · 1 calf this month Maize 12 ha standing · harvest Jun
TractorRunning · service Aug
BoreholeRunning · tested Mar
Poultry houses ×2Good condition
Grid powerActive
Farm roadAll season
StorageNone · flagged at onboarding
Support1 active · vet follow-up Thursday
Next visitExtension officer · 24 Jul · production verification
Product UI · illustrative data
The record is built in a guided conversation at onboarding, not a separate registration system, and it keeps growing with the farmer. A farm can be producing well this month and still have weak financial records; Mothusi tracks both.
Mothusi AI for farmers
A practical farm mentor between field visits.
Mothusi AI works from the farmer’s Farm Record, commodity baselines, current production cycle and programme requirements. Through guided conversations, it helps the farmer report what changed, understand risks, complete records, request support and act before production is lost.
It can help the farmer
- Complete onboarding through conversation rather than a long form
- Submit monthly production and sales updates
- Record births, deaths, yields, inventory, inputs and costs
- Identify missing or outdated production evidence
- Calculate likely feed, seed or working-capital gaps
- Explain the farmer’s next action
- Open a veterinary or extension-support case
- Find approved specialists and suppliers
- Prepare production for a buyer opportunity
- Write orders, delivery evidence and payment proof back to the Farm Record
It helps the programme
- Identify farms that have not reported
- Detect production risks before the reporting period ends
- Route cases by location, commodity and urgency
- Spot repeated needs across districts
- Forecast inputs, output and specialist demand
- Connect credible supply to current buyer requirements
The field officer does not arrive without context, and the farmer is not left without support between visits.
3 · The operating rhythm
Keep production and field activity current.
Monthly and cycle-based reports, field visits, and photo- and video-backed evidence feed the same Farm Record, so the network is managed from current signals rather than information collected once at application.
- monthly and cycle-based production reports;
- field and extension visits, with GPS-stamped photo and video evidence;
- sales, inputs, births, deaths and compliance changes;
Data freshness · this month
674reported
92in progress
76overdue · flagged
674 + 92 + 76 · all 842 farms accounted for, none silently missing
Programme teams see what changed this month, which evidence is document-verified, and which farms need follow-up, while there is still time to act.
4 · Early warning
Act before production is lost.
Mothusi reads current Farm Records, commodity baselines and recent reports to flag where output is likely to be lost, early enough for people to verify and intervene. At network level, that is a portfolio view of production risk and unfunded need.
Next 60 days · estimated, for verification
Recommended · prioritise feed and planting support this week
Mothusi · Kabelo Farm · flagged for review
The broiler cycle is projected to reach sale weight around 18 November.
On current feed stock and reported consumption, feed is projected to run short by about four days before sale.
Estimated top-up: about 18 bags. Confirm actual stock at your next check-in.
Add to review listView approved suppliers
The value is not that the system predicts the future perfectly. It is that likely gaps surface early enough to verify and act, farm by farm and across the network.
5 · Managed support
Turn every support need into a managed case.
A veterinary, crop, equipment or input need is reported with the farm history, commodity record, location and evidence already attached. It is triaged by urgency and location, routed to an approved provider or district officer by the programme's own rules, and tracked through visit, findings and follow-up. Repeated cases across farms surface as a district pattern.
Mothusi AI in action
HighCalf weaknessKabelo Farm · Rustenburg EastDr Ndlovu · en route
HighSuspected Newcastle3 farms · Rustenburg EastDistrict vet review
HighMastitisDineo Farm · Moses KotaneOverdue 6h · escalated
MedBorehole failureTumelo Farm · MoreteleTankering arranged
LowFeed-ratio adviceNaledi Farm · MadibengAnswered · closed
ReportedKabelo: two calves weak in Kraal 1 · farm history, livestock record, 3 photos & 1 video attached automatically
TriagedLarge-animal · high urgency · Rustenburg East
Routed by ruleNearest approved large-animal vet on call · Dr Ndlovu
VisitToday 14:00 · findings and treatment recorded to the Farm Record
Follow-upRe-check Thursday · tracked until the case closes
14related poultry-health cases in Rustenburg East · district veterinary review opened
24farms with incomplete planting records · extension follow-up assigned by district
Product UI · illustrative data
The programme sees cases by category and district, response times, overdue cases and recurring issues, so support is directed rather than left to chance. The conversation above is Mothusi AI: it attaches the farm history and location, identifies approved vets, obtains the quotation, schedules the visit and writes the outcome back to the Farm Record.
6 · Market access
Connect credible supply to real demand.
Current production records let the programme aggregate credible supply against a buyer requirement, screen farms on production, evidence and capacity, and preserve the resulting order, delivery and payment as verifiable evidence. Where one farmer cannot meet a requirement, a group can.
Open for business, far beyond the farm gate.
A buyer he has never met just found him.
The money is real. So is the proof.
Product UI · illustrative data
Fulfilled orders write back to each Farm Record as commercial-proof evidence and pre-fill the next report. This is not a directory; it is a controlled bridge between verified production and real demand.
7 · The outcome
See what the programme produced, measured on the same standard.
At the end of a season or reporting period, movement is measured against the same tiers and levers, not activities delivered or people trained. Every figure traces to the business, the lever, the evidence and the reviewer.
31% → 64%of production records document-verified, up from self-reported
214 farmsimproved their Growth Score · verified movement, not attendance
96 farmsmatched to buyers through the network · 58 completed first formal sales
2,410 visitsGPS-stamped extension and vet visits · every farm reached at least twice
The season report reads straight from the records: every figure traceable to the farm, the evidence and the reviewer.
Product UI · illustrative data
This is the report a funder or board asks for: verified movement, drawn from the live records, with the evidence behind every number.
One governed network. One current view for everyone who supports a farmer.
Mothusi is a governed network, not an open directory. Farmers, field teams, specialists, programme staff and buyers each join with the role, information and permissions relevant to them, and what is shared is authorised and revocable.
Illustrative network · who is in it
842farmers
41communities
9commodities
18field officers
6veterinary providers
12active buyers
Illustrative network view · not the Royal Bafokeng deployment
Live deployment
One live institutional deployment, and what the system is built to do next.
We separate what is deployed today from what the agriculture system is designed to do. Across the wider Avnon and Mothusi work, 2,850 SMEs and farmers have been reached; one deployment, the Royal Bafokeng Enterprise Development network, is live and public.
Live today
- farmer and enterprise records within one governed network;
- guided onboarding and baseline assessments;
- programme activity, reporting and evidence capture;
- field and support workflows in use;
- over two years of assessment, learning and mentoring history.
Illustrated on this page
- commodity forecasting and early warning;
- case routing by district and rule;
- aggregated buyer demand and market access;
- all on the same record, as the system expands into agriculture.
The Royal Bafokeng deployment is live and public at rbed.mothusi.ai.
One Farm Record for every farmer.
One operating view across the network.
Run production visibility, early warning, field support, market access and outcome reporting for a farmer programme through one connected system, measured on one standard.