The digital platform for agricultural producers in the DRC
Moloni is a free agricultural advisory service for farmers, offered by Vodacom and Kadea in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Accelerating the economic inclusion of smallholder farmers through a digital platform designed to improve incomes, strengthen food security and promote sustainable agriculture.
Why Moloni ? - The agricultural context in the DRC
70%
of the active population
works in agriculture.
4M
families practice subsistence farming (≈1.6 ha/plot).
300,000
commercial agricultural producers, on areas of 12 to 250 ha.
20%
of the national GDP comes from agriculture.
Major structural challenges
- 🌍 Primary cause of deforestation (shifting cultivation)
- 🌧️ Decrease in rainfall
- 🐝 Decline in biodiversity
- 🚧 Rural isolation, weak storage and transport infrastructure
- 🧱 Weak structuring of agricultural producers and limited access to inputs and financing
- 📉 Lack of reliable agricultural data
- 🌿 Low valorization of local production and lack of knowledge of high-potential sectors
What we do
1. Identify and connect agricultural producers
We identify producers through field campaigns
2. Advise directly by phone
Thanks to a multi-channel system (SMS, USSD, App), producers have free access to agricultural advice adapted to their crops, their region and the season.
Advice – Market prices – Weather – Road condition
3. Alert the network of producers in real time
The platform allows you to broadcast targeted alerts (diseases, weather, inputs, prices) to producers.
What Moloni offers
For Partners
- Census with geolocation
- Sending advice and targeted alerts
- Monitoring of beneficiaries and impact indicators
For Farmers
- Personalized agricultural advice via SMS, USSD, App
- Sending advice and targeted alerts
- Monitoring of beneficiaries and impact indicators
Partners
Moloni is a project led by Vodacom Congo and Kadea, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, and in close collaboration with public institutions, NGOs, and agricultural cooperatives.
Institutional and technical partners :
Who we are
Moloni is an initiative led by the Vodacom Digital Lab (VDL), the research and innovation laboratory born from the partnership between Vodacom Congo and Kadea Academy.
This laboratory’s mission is to develop, test and deploy digital solutions with high social and environmental impact across the entire Congolese territory.
Moloni is part of this dynamic: it is a digital solution co-constructed with key players in the agricultural world, which aims to equip Congolese farmers with adapted, accessible and useful digital services to improve their productivity, their incomes and their resilience to climate change.
