How We Built an AI Agricultural Assistant for Rwandan Rice Farmers

At Loudi Agricultural Development Limited, we're a small Chinese agricultural company working on high-yield rice localization in Rwanda. Our team is based between Loudi (Hunan, China) and Kigali, Rwanda, and we've been working on adaptive seed breeding across multiple agro-ecological zones in the country. The Problem Rwanda imports a significant portion of its rice. Local farmers and extension workers often lack access to up-to-date agronomic guidance — what varieties to plant, when to plant them, how to manage common diseases like rice blast, and what post-harvest practices to follow. The information exists in scattered government documents, research papers, and RAB (Rwanda Agriculture Board) publications, but it's not easily accessible in the field. What We Built We created Ask Loudi — a free, multilingual AI agricultural assistant that answers questions about rice farming in Rwanda. It supports English, Chinese, and Kinyarwanda. The architecture is straightforward: Knowledge base :