Pilot β€” Meru & Kirinyaga, 2026

Plan your season. Log every shilling. Walk into the bank with a real report.

A Kenyan-built planning + logging tool for horticulture farms. Inspired by SHEP PLUS. Works offline. Bilingual English / Kiswahili. Sister product to Shira.

What Panda does for a horticulture farmer

Eight things, all designed for the realities of farming in Kenya: offline, bilingual, low-data, low-cost.

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Season planner

Pick a crop + your acreage + a planting date. Panda lays out the full activity timeline + scaled input list (seed, fertiliser, sprays). Inspired by JICA SHEP PLUS.

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Costs + harvests log

Tap once after every spend or pick. End of season: a lender-grade PDF with every shilling in and every kilo out. Paper notebooks gone.

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Disease scan (mock today, AI tomorrow)

Snap a leaf, get a diagnosis + a list of PCPB-registered treatments. Currently a deterministic mock; flips to Crop.health AI when the pilot starts.

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Dealer map

30 verified Kenyan agro-dealers across 14 counties (Elgon Kenya, ETG, Juanco, Twiga). GPS-sorted by your farm location.

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12-month price intelligence

Local market prices for the 5 MVP crops, updated weekly. See seasonal swings, plan your harvest week, and stop selling at the wrong price.

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Works without internet

Forms save offline. Sync when you reconnect. Built for the realities of fibre cuts and 3G zones in rural Meru and Kirinyaga.

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Bilingual (EN + SW)

Every farmer-facing screen ships in English and Kiswahili. Native-speaker reviewed. No machine translation.

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Sister to Shira

Shares Shira's identity, infrastructure, and operational discipline. Your livestock farmer can use Shira; your tomato farmer can use Panda.

One season at a time. One crop at a time.

Panda starts narrow on purpose: tomato in Meru and Kirinyaga, with a single tested workflow β€” plan a season, follow the timeline, log costs and harvests, walk away with a lender-ready PDF.

16 more crops follow, each with agronomist sign-off. We expand by evidence, not by hype.

  • βœ… Tomato β€” full content (timeline, inputs, 6 diseases)
  • ⏳ Kale, cabbage, onion, French beans β€” content drafted
  • ⏳ Capsicum, chili, eggplant, potato, watermelon β€” outline
  • ⏳ Amaranthus, managu, cowpea leaves β€” outline
  • ⏳ Avocado, banana, mango, passion fruit β€” outline

Want to be among the first 200 farmers?

The Meru & Kirinyaga pilot starts in 2026. Tell us about your farm and we'll be in touch when onboarding opens.