Agricultural productivity by measure of value added per worker has stagnated at below $400 in East Africa for decades. Many mobile innovations have been created in the last half decade directly or indirectly targeting improvement of this productivity. The results have not yet reached the scale of the runaway success seen in the use of mobile for financial inclusion. These are my thoughts as my studies drag on. The slides were presented at the monthly entrepreneurial forum held at iHub for 27th September 2014 at the request of Dr. Bitange Ndemo