kaksv/Shamba-sync

A WhatsApp-native, multimodal AI assistant that empowers smallholder African farmers to diagnose crop diseases and optimize market sales using just voice notes and photos. 🌿 Shamba-Sync Agri-Voice Agent — Multi-Agent AI System for African Smallholder Farmers Overview • The Problem • Architecture • Agents • CAP Integration • Quick Start • Tech Stack • Deployment • Hackathon --- ## 📋 Overview **Shamba-Sync** (from Kiswahili *"Shamba"* meaning farm + *"Sync"* meaning synchronization) is a **multi-agent AI system** that brings precision agriculture to Africa's 33 million smallholder farmers. Farmers can **send a voice note, type a message, or snap a photo** in Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, or English, and instantly receive: 1. 🔬 **Crop disease diagnosis** — What's wrong with my plant? 2. 💊 **Treatment recommendations** — How do I fix it organically or chemically? 3. 💰 **Market prices & buyer connections** — Where should I sell and for how much? All powered by **three coordinated AI agents** on the **CROO Agent Protocol (CAP)** — a decentralized A2A commerce standard that lets agents discover, hire, and pay each other on-chain using USDC on Solana. > **Built for the CROO Agent Store Hackathon** — Proving how A2A composability and on-chain commerce drive the next generation of autonomous applications. --- ## 🌍 The Problem ### Agriculture in Africa | Metric | Value | |--------|-------| | Percentage of Africa's workforce in agriculture | **60-70%** | | Smallholder farmers (under 2 hectares) | **33 million** | | Extension workers per 5,000 farmers | **1** | | Crop loss due to preventable diseases | **30-40%** | | Farmers losing income to middlemen exploitation | **Majority** | ### The Gap Extension workers (government agricultural advisors) are severely scarce — **1 per 5,000 farmers**. This means: - Farmers don't know what disease is affecting their crops - They apply wrong treatments, wasting money and time - They sell at unfair prices because they lack market information - Language barriers prevent access to global agricultural knowledge ### How Shamba-Sync Solves This Shamba-Sync acts as a **24/7 AI extensi …