By professionalizing and digitizing the link between the financial institutions, exporters and service providers on the one hand and smallholder farmers on the other, Agro-preneur sees a huge opportunity for a sustainable and scalable business that can significantly improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Uganda. Digitalization combined with an extensive engagement model and in-depth data analyses, allows Agro-preneur to gather a large amount of quality data from individual farmers, enabling the provision of targeted support regarding services, financing, training and roadmaps to sustainable agribusiness.
We work alongside farmers to draw them a roadmap towards a sustainable, and profitable agribusiness model. Along the way farmers will become climate smart, digitally literate, financially included and market resilient.
Technical knowledge on agronomy and regenerative agriculture alongside farm extension services and training as we see this to be the foundation for building sustainable agribusinesses. This is supplemented by acess to a wide array of digital tools that support the farmers in planning out their seasons including a revolutionary climate pediction tool CLIMTAG.
Access to organic inputs that have been tried and tested, to ensure increases in production and reduction in pests and diseases across their range of crops.
Access to financing and loans through a digital platform that supports farmers saving and loan acquition while colecting relevant data on performance of the farms and forecasts. As one of our goals is to get farmers to view their frming operations as businesses, Agro-preneur is offering financial literacy capacity building that may extend to basic accounting and financial planning.
Access to international markets that can offer the highest prices and enable premiums for quality, traceable produce. Wherever possible, Agro-preneur will provide support to certification processes that boost both product prices and marketability for the range of products grown by farmers. This is further strengthened by our commitment to an effective and efficient payment system, whereby farmers are paid by mobile money or bank transfer within 24 hours of product collection.
A digital platform to store all farmer data on production, income, loans, trainings received and GIS maps of their farms, which can also facilitate regular updates to farmers via mobile phone on pricing, training updates, logistics, weather patterns, collection dates etc. This gives critical information on traceability and provides evidence of implementation of standards.
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