GoviHub

Sri Lanka's AI farming marketplace

GoviHub connects farmers directly to buyers and gives them AI crop help in their own language.

Free for farmers. Forever.

Live now for spice farmers. Works in any phone browser.

A farmer's hands holding a phone over a black pepper vine

The problem

The farmer grows the crop. The middleman sets the price.

Most Sri Lankan farmers sell through middlemen. They have no direct line to buyers and no clear view of fair prices. When a crop falls sick, help from an agricultural officer takes days to arrive.

Black pepper vines with clusters of green and ripe red berries in morning light

What GoviHub does

AI

Diagnose crop disease from a photo

Photograph a sick leaf. AI identifies the likely disease and explains the treatment in Sinhala, Tamil or English.

Black pepper vines with clusters of green and ripe red berries in morning light
Fresh turmeric and ginger roots split open to show bright yellow and pale gold flesh
AI

Ask a farming question in Sinhala

The AI advisor answers from Sri Lankan Department of Agriculture publications on spice crops. Local guidance for local farms.

Sell direct to buyers

List a harvest with quantity, price and a photo. GoviHub matches each listing with buyers who want the crop, close to the farm.

Plan around the weather

See a 7-day forecast for your farm, with soil temperature and moisture. Get alerts when the weather puts your crops at risk. Forecasts come from international weather models.

Buy seeds, fertiliser and tools

Suppliers list farm inputs on GoviHub. Farmers call or WhatsApp them directly.

Sinhala, Tamil and English

Every screen works in all three languages. No app store, no download. Open the site on any phone.

Built for everyone in the supply chain

  • Farmers

    Free, forever. List harvests, get matched with buyers, diagnose crops and ask for advice.

  • Buyers

    Post what you need. GoviHub matches you with farmers who grow the crop near you.

  • Suppliers

    Put seeds, fertiliser, tools and equipment in front of farmers who need them.

Start in four steps

  1. 1

    Open spices.govihublk.com on your phone.

  2. 2

    Register with your name and phone number.

  3. 3

    Choose your role: farmer, buyer or supplier.

  4. 4

    List a harvest, post a need or ask a question.

Aruni Samaranayake of AiGNITE Sri Lanka holding the Digital Innovation Impact Pioneer award at the Global Digital Trade Expo, Hangzhou, September 2026

International recognition

Digital Innovation Impact Pioneer

GoviHub received the Digital Innovation Impact Pioneer award at the International Youth OPC Co-Creation Dialogue, Global Digital Trade Expo, Hangzhou, China, in September 2026.

The programme brought together 33 enterprises from 22 developing countries. GoviHub was the only one from Sri Lanka.

The International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, organised the programme with the Global SDGs and Leadership Development Center and the China International Youth Exchange Center.

Aruni Samaranayake, Director of Operations at AiGNITE Sri Lanka, accepted the award in Hangzhou.

Green paddy fields and a spice home garden under a clear blue sky in the North Central Province

Working with the Sri Lankan government

We are working with the Sri Lankan government on proposals to integrate GoviHub with agriculture institutions across the country. Together, we aim to bring more services to the farming community through one platform.

Our vision and mission

Vision

අතරමැදි සූරාකෑමෙන් තොර සෘජු වෙළෙඳපොළ බලය සහ AI තාක්ෂණයේ ප්‍රඥාව ගොවියාගේම අතට පත් කරමින්, සෑම ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ගොවියෙකුම අභිමානවත් හා ස්වාධීන ඩිජිටල් යුගයක පෙරගමන්කරුවෙකු බවට පත්කිරීම.

To make every Sri Lankan farmer a proud and independent pioneer of the digital age, with direct market power and the intelligence of AI in their own hands, free from middleman exploitation.

Mission

අතරමැදි බාධක බිඳහෙලමින් ගොවීන් සහ ගැනුම්කරුවන් සෘජුවම යා කරන, ගොවියාට සදහටම නොමිලේ වන ඩිජිටල් වේදිකාවක් තිළිණ කිරීමත්, සරල AI තාක්ෂණය මගින් වගා අභියෝගවලට සැණින් විසඳුම් දෙමින් කාලය, ශ්‍රමය සහ අස්වනු නාස්තිය වළක්වා ග්‍රාමීය ගොවි ආර්ථිකය සවිබල ගැන්වීමත් අපගේ මෙහෙවරයි.

Our mission is to give farmers a digital platform, free for farmers forever. We connect farmers and buyers directly, break down middleman barriers, and put simple AI to work on crop problems the moment they appear. We cut waste of time, labor, and harvests, and build a stronger rural farming economy for Sri Lanka.

Starting with spices. Growing to every crop.

Spices

Live now. The pilot started with spice farmers in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. Black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and cardamom.

Fresh green cardamom pods beside green and pink clove buds
  • Fruits

    Coming soon.

  • Produce

    Coming soon.

Built in Sri Lanka by AiGNITE

AiGNITE Sri Lanka designs and builds AI products for Sri Lankan businesses and institutions. GoviHub is our flagship platform.

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