Siddharth Anbalagan Builds Offline Agricultural Coding Bot with Civicom.org
Mombasa, Kenya, 19th Dec 2025 – Siddharth Anbalagan is a pre-medical student who has dedicated his coding skills to building an offline agricultural advisory bot designed to empower smallholder farmers. While his academic path is rooted in medicine, Siddharth’s curiosity and passion for problem-solving led him to spend four years learning how technology can address real-world challenges in agriculture.
Growing up, Siddharth observed firsthand how difficult farming can be—particularly for rural communities. Challenges such as unpredictable weather, soil degradation, pest control, and volatile market prices are difficult to navigate without timely, reliable information. Unfortunately, access to digital agricultural guidance remains limited in many deep rural areas, where internet connectiv...
