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From spreadsheet to system: migrating a 500-head dairy farm onto Farm MGT
A 500-head commercial dairy farm in Mbarara had 6 years of livestock records across 14 Excel files. Here's how we migrated them — and what changed in the first 90 …
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Designing for intermittent connectivity: lessons from building Farm MGT's offline-first Android app
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30 Augn2026
Designing for intermittent connectivity: lessons from building Farm MGT's offline-first Android app
An Android app that only works with internet is useless on a farm. Here's how we designed Farm MGT's field …
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30 Augn2026
Mobile money on the farm: integrating MTN and Airtel into agricultural record-keeping
Most East African farmers already use mobile money for daily transactions. The gap is connecting those transactions to farm financial …
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30 Augn2026
Building offline-capable Android apps for East African field operations
Connectivity is intermittent in the field. Here's the sync architecture we use to ensure data is never lost and conflicts …
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