CodeFarm
Divisi. Stop guessing. Farm smarter.
Divisi is the free farming app we build and run at CodeFarm. It tells a farmer what will grow on their exact field, when to plant it, what to do each week — and warns them before extreme weather hits. It works offline, it is free to the farmer, and it works anywhere in the world — Sub-Saharan Africa is where our focus sits.
The farmers who grow Africa's food get the least advice.
About half of Sub-Saharan Africa's food calories come from areas farmed in units under 5 hectares (Samberg, 2016). In Malawi one extension officer serves more than 4,000 farmers, roughly eight times the ceiling the FAO recommends (Cogent, 2024). That ratio cannot be fixed by hiring. As a result, most farmers plant on inherited practice: the wrong crop for the soil, a week too early, and no warning before the storm that ends the season.
Generic advice does not close the gap. A national planting calendar is of limited use to a farmer whose field sits on different soil, at a different altitude, with different water. The guidance has to be specific to that field.
Guidance specific to a single field.
Crop recommendations
Divisi reads the soil, climate, terrain and water of a specific field and ranks the crops that will actually thrive there, with expected yields. See what grows where you are.
Hyper-local weather
Seven-day forecasts for the farm itself, plus early alerts for heatwaves, storms, floods and dry spells — in time to act on them.
Pest & disease pressure
Divisi names the pests and diseases that actually threaten the crop at the stage it is in, shows what each one looks like, and puts the farmer's question in front of growers nearby. It does not claim to identify a disease from a photograph — on early symptoms and a budget camera, that claim is shakier than it looks. Browse the pest guides and disease guides.
Weekly task plans
Planting dates and step-by-step guidance for each task, generated for the field and updated as the season moves.
Farm diary & ledger
Work logs, expenses and sales with photo attachments, producing a season record a lender or buyer can rely on.
Farmer Hive
Questions answered by nearby farmers growing the same crops in the same conditions, rather than by a general forum.
Crop guides
Growing guides for the crops African smallholders actually plant — maize, cassava, sorghum, beans, tomato and dozens more. Each runs field prep to storage with spacing, seed rates and days to maturity.
Pest guides
How to identify a pest, how to scout for it, when it is worth acting and what actually works — fall armyworm, cereal stem borers, aphids, and parasitic weeds such as striga.
Disease guides
Symptoms, scouting and control for the diseases that decide a season: maize streak virus, the worst virus of maize in sub-Saharan Africa, cassava mosaic disease, late blight on potato and tomato, and coffee leaf rust.
See what grows best on your farm
Drop a location and plot size and the tool ranks the crops suited to that soil, climate and terrain. Free, no signup.
Insights
Practical guides on the problems that cost harvests — El Niño and a dry planting season, market timing, storage losses and what a shifting rainfall pattern means for the next crop.
Farming glossary
The words farmers actually use — hurudza, goho, shamba — across Shona, Swahili, Ndebele and Yoruba, with the bucket-and-bag conversions that turn them into numbers you can plan with.
All of it is free to read on divisi.africa, no signup. Common questions are answered in the Divisi FAQ, and the name Divisi comes from a Shona word for a charm that protects a farmer's land.
Ground truth for your outgrower programme.
If you run contract farming, a development programme or an extension service, Divisi Enterprise gives you visibility on every grower — from planting to delivery — built on the same app your farmers already use free of charge, so there is no separate rollout to manage.
- Ground-truth records. Planting dates, inputs, field photos, tasks and yields, captured on members' farms as they happen.
- Remote agronomic support. Your agronomists identify problems early and respond through the app rather than discovering them at harvest.
- Fewer wasted visits. Prioritise the farms that need attention rather than driving the whole roster.
Pricing is bespoke and scoped around the programme.
What Divisi demonstrates about how we build.
We meet every constraint our clients face on our own product first: intermittent connectivity, entry-level Android devices, localisation for farmers who do not read English, agronomy that has to be right about a real field, and a cost base sustainable for users who will never pay.
When we recommend an offline sync strategy, or judge a model ready for users, it is because we are already running it at scale on a product of our own.
Offline-first sync
Conflict handling and queued writes proven on farms without a signal for days at a time.
Geospatial modelling in production
A GAEZ-style crop suitability cascade over soil, terrain and climate rasters, resolved for one field rather than a district average.
Multilingual by design
Localisation built into the architecture from the start: dates, figures and currency already follow the farmer's own locale, and translation of the interface is under way, Shona and French first.
Low-end device performance
Built and tested on the entry-level handsets our users actually own.
Divisi questions, answered
Is Divisi free?
Does Divisi work without internet?
Which countries and languages does Divisi support?
Who built Divisi?
Can Divisi be used for an outgrower or contract farming programme?
Where do I download Divisi?
See the product.
The clearest account of how we work is the product we run ourselves.