About this app

About iCow

iCow is a mobile phone based agricultural platform designed to help smallholder farmers improve productivity and profitability through access to knowledge on sustainable agricultural practices.

The platform covers: Soils, Crops, Livestock and Farmer Health and originates content from the extensive iCow Farmer library delivering content to farmers in SMS format.

SMS enables retention, share-ability, and cost-effective scalability.

The platform is designed for low-end feature phones and can be used on smartphones. It is available in multiple languages in multiple countries.

iCow provides a variety of channels for farmers to increase their knowledge. These include subscription-based lessons as well as lessons that farmers can customize to their required needs. It can be accessed 24/7

Embedded in iCow are smart tools designed to reduce farming risks.

iCow Precision Farming Tools

Livestock Calendars
iCow hosts a variety of livestock calendars that remind farmers of actions required customized to individual livestock or flock needs.

Best Mbegu for You
This tool enables farmers to select the appropriate seeds for their agro-ecological growing zone.

Daktari wa Mboga
Daktari wa Mboga helps farmers identify crop-related problems through a symptoms-based search.

iCow Soko
iCow Soko is a virtual marketplace designed to create visibility and connect farmers marketing and searching for livestock and livestock feeds.

Know Your County Soil
Soil health underpins successful agriculture. Know Your County Soil enables farmers to access information on the soil in their area and networks them with soil experts to test their farm soils.

Dr. iCow
Dr. iCow hosts an audio library of Farmer conversations with renowned veterinary surgeon Dr. Zachary Kimotho. These conversations take place across Kenya covering different livestock species, diseases, and illnesses.

iCow is owned by Green Dreams TECH Ltd.
Strategic Partners include elea Foundation for ethics in Globalisation, Safaricom PLC, Accenture Suisse, International Livestock Research Institution (ILRI) Nairobi.

Content partners include Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO), International Livestock Research Institution (ILRI), University of Liverpool, Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases (ZED), Biovision Foundation, GALVmed, and Farmers.

Currently, iCow is deployed in English, Kiswahili, Oromiffo, Amharic, and Tigrigna, in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia where it is a free service to farmers. It is designed to educate farmers across the developing world.

Green Dreams TECH Ltd reserves the rights to all content on the iCow platform.
For enquiries contact: info@greendreams.co.ke

New features

Added Testimonials from Farmers

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.