A complete farming program

One rain-fed harvest a year. We make it up to three.

East Africa's rice farmers wait on the rain and harvest once. We bring irrigation and drone technology to your fields so the land works all year.

We make your farm bankable. You buy and own the patented irrigation system; banks provide short-term input financing paid directly to Dronlytics Technologies on your behalf; Dronlytics Technologies buys every harvest; and an agreed minimum-payout guarantee protects your income.

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One year on the same field

Today — rain-fed1 harvest

With Dronlytics — irrigatedUp to 3 harvests

Rice → rice → soybean rotation keeps the soil healthy between cycles.

The shift

The same field can do far more than one rainy season allows.

Most rice in East Africa is grown the way it was a generation ago — waiting for rain, harvesting once, and accepting below-average yields. Water on demand changes what a year can hold.

Today, across the region

Rain-fed and waiting

One harvest a year, tied to an unpredictable rainy season.
Yields that sit below what the land is capable of producing.
Income that arrives once and has to stretch across the year.
Flooded paddies that lose water — and release methane — all season.

With Dronlytics

Irrigated and working all year

Up to three cropping cycles a year, with full mechanization.
Precision irrigation and drone scouting lift yields per hectare.
Income that comes in more than once — and lifts whole households.
40–60% less water, less fertilizer, and a soybean rotation that feeds the soil.

What it means for you

Built around the farmer, not the equipment.

The technology only matters if it changes life on the farm. Here is what changes.

More harvests, more income

Up to three cycles a year instead of one means earnings arrive more often — and add up to far more across the year.

Backed by the bank each season

You buy and own the patented irrigation system. Our program makes you bankable, so banks provide short-term input financing — paid directly to Dronlytics Technologies on your behalf — keeping every season fully supplied.

Far less water and effort

Precision irrigation delivers water where it's needed — 40–60% less of it — and ends the daily work of hauling and flooding.

Healthier soil, year on year

Rotating rice with soybean restores nutrients, cuts fertilizer needs, and deters the quelea birds that damage rice.

The model — a complete farming program

We make farmers bankable.

Banks won’t finance a farm that harvests once on the rain. Our program changes that — guaranteed offtake and an agreed minimum-payout guarantee make your farm a business a bank will back.

We make you bankable

Guaranteed offtake — Dronlytics Technologies buys all your paddy rice and raw soybean — plus an agreed minimum-payout guarantee benchmarked to your last single-harvest year turn your farm into a predictable business.

The guarantee

You own the system; we keep it supplied

You buy and own the patented irrigation system. Banks then provide short-term input financing — paid directly to Dronlytics Technologies on your behalf — so every season is fully stocked without tying up your cash.

Owned asset + input finance

You grow, sell & keep the upside

You grow up to three harvests with full mechanization and drone support, sell every kilo to Dronlytics Technologies, settle the season’s input financing from those sales, and keep the surplus.

Your harvest

Why it matters: the barrier to modern farming in the region isn’t only the technology — it’s that a once-a-year, rain-fed farm isn’t bankable, so no one will extend it credit. Guaranteed offtake and an agreed minimum-payout guarantee make the farm bankable, so the farmer can own the patented irrigation system and have each season’s inputs financed.

The proof

Measured results on real fields.

The difference precision makes, measured season over season.

Up to 3×

Harvests per year

with full mechanization

40–60%

Less water used

our fields, vs. flood irrigation

Zero

Runoff to rivers

patented tailwater recovery

Lower

Methane & fertilizer

less flooding, smarter inputs

40–60% measured across Dronlytics’ own fields in Tanzania’s Morogoro Region; 67% average in a 3-year University of Arkansas study (below).

Land & water

Nothing leaves the field that shouldn't.

Flood irrigation pushes water and chemicals off the field and into nearby streams and rivers. Precision changes that — and the benefit reaches far beyond the farm gate.

Zero runoff, by design
Our patented tailwater recovery system captures and reuses water and inputs on the field, so none escapes into local waterways.
Cleaner rivers, lower public cost
Local governments avoid the cleanup bills that come with contaminated streams and damaged fisheries downstream.
Less methane from the paddy
Drier, precisely watered fields release far less methane than permanently flooded paddies — a real climate gain.

Aerial field-uniformity imaging comparing the Tailwater Recovery System area with a control area, University of Arkansas study — Field-uniformity imaging — Tailwater Recovery System (TWRS) area vs. control area. University of Arkansas Rice Research & Extension Center.

Independently verified

A 3-year university study, not a sales claim.

A three-year study by the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center confirmed that the patented tailwater recovery system improves rice-field uniformity while cutting water use by an average of 67% and improving water efficiency by 114% — with fertilizer use reduced by 30% and minimal impact on yield.

67%

less water used (avg.)

+114%

water efficiency

30%

less fertilizer

Minimal impact on yield. Source: University of Arkansas Rice Research & Extension Center, 3-year study.

Why it matters

One system. Three kinds of impact.

When a farm produces more without taking more from the land, the gains spread outward — to families, to communities, and to the rivers everyone shares.

01 — PROSPERITY

Income that lifts households

Three harvests turn subsistence into surplus. More income, more often, is how farming families move out of poverty and invest in school, food, and the future.

02 — ENVIRONMENT

More food, lighter footprint

Less water, less fertilizer, less methane, and zero runoff. Soybean rotation rebuilds the soil. Growing more and harming less, at the same time.

03 — COMMUNITY

Cleaner shared resources

Protected rivers and fisheries, lower public cleanup costs, and stronger local food supply. The whole community shares in what the farm no longer loses.

For farmers & cooperatives

Bring the system to your land.

Our program makes you bankable, finances your inputs each season, and guarantees a buyer for every harvest. Tell us about your land and we’ll show you what up to three harvests a year could look like.

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For governments & partners

Scale food security, protect the water.

Partner with us to expand irrigated, runoff-free rice production across the region — raising yields and household incomes while protecting shared rivers.

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