"Ng'ombe Planner is a more efficient data collection system for researchers. It relies on the farmers to record their farm production and incidences using their mobile phones and site coordinators to do a follow up of any cases or incidences.
A data collection system
By the farmers
Using their own mobile devices
For research purposes
Developed by researchers at ILRI, the tool is designed to work with any mobile telephone that the farmer has. It runs on three platforms – Android, Java and on any other mobile phone through the USSD application"