Overview
Terralima is a supply chain platform that lets African smallholder farmers and producer cooperatives sell directly to global buyers. It is built for cooperatives that want to manage farmer records, run cashless payouts, and access financial services in one place. The pitch to farmers is simple: fair minimum prices and on-demand harvesting that reduces wasted produce1.
Built in Kenya by founder Roy Njoka and his team, Terralima ties three audiences together: the cooperative running farmer programs, the farmer in the field, and the business buying fresh produce. A sister buyer-facing site, Terrafresh, markets the same supply chain to restaurants and food businesses with blockchain-based product history2. Think of Terralima as the cooperative's operating system and Terrafresh as the storefront the buyer sees.
Key Features
- Sign up farmers without a smartphone. Farmers sign up through a short menu code on any basic mobile phone, with field agents available to walk them through it. The flow is built around the reality that smallholder farmers in rural Kenya often have feature phones, not smartphones3.
- Order first, then pick. A buyer places an order before the crop is picked, then Terralima coordinates the harvest, collection, and delivery within 24 hours. This pattern, common in modern produce logistics, cuts the post-harvest waste that drains smallholder income1.
- One dashboard for the cooperative. Cooperatives get a tool that handles farmer records, payouts, value-added services, and market access in one place. The aim is to give cooperatives the same kind of operating system a small business would expect, instead of paper ledgers and spreadsheets1.
- Backed by two Cardano accelerators. Terralima is one of nine startups in the inaugural CV Labs Cardano Accelerator group announced in Crypto Valley, Switzerland in May 20254. It was also selected for the 2025 Techstars Cardano Founder Catalyst, a ten-week program run with Project Catalyst and supported by members of the Cardano Foundation5.
- Kilifi Coin token initiative. A sister project called Kilifi Coin is described on its LinkedIn showcase as a digital token by Terralima built on Cardano, aimed at financial access for smallholder farmers. No token contract or ticker has been published yet6.
What to Expect
The public website at terralima.co is a clean, six-page marketing site with no blockchain language on any page, no public dashboard, no developer docs, and no GitHub repo. The cooperative app sits behind a partner login, so a curious visitor cannot click into the actual operating tool. What is visible is a clear value pitch for cooperatives, farmers, and businesses, plus a contact form and a Coming Soon mobile app banner.
The Cardano connection is real but lives off-page. Two independent accelerator cohorts have selected Terralima (CV Labs and Techstars and Cardano Founder Catalyst), and the buyer-facing sister site Terrafresh openly markets blockchain-based product history and automated rulebooks27. Together, this points to an on-chain layer marketed on the buyer side and kept out of view on the cooperative side, a deliberate audience split.
For a non-technical visitor, Terralima reads as a credible African agritech company with serious accelerator backing. For a technical reviewer, the on-chain layer is announced rather than fully checkable today.
