AbstractSmart devices are gaining popularity and are becoming key platform for accessing business and personal information. Access to this sensitive information also requires proper authentication and identification. This paper describes a solution proposed for farmers’ biometric identification in African Cashew Initiative. African cashew initiative is a project which focuses on organizing and supporting cashew producers in five African project countries. The paper presents an implementation of biometric identification in large datasets and provides results regarding the performance and accuracy of the proposed system. This work is a first approach towards offline biometric identification on smartphones providing preliminary results for deployment on large scale.