There are 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, most of whom live on less than $1 a day.
Small-scale farmers are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and they face many challenges including lack of access to traditional markets, agricultural inputs, finance and logistics.
Every day small-scale farmers develop a diverse range of innovative, low-cost solutions in response to the many challenges that they face. But with the majority of farmers living in remote areas without internet access, they cannot share this information with other farmers… Until now, with Agro Mart
Our Approach
The farm is a free peer to peer service that enables farmers to share information via SMS, without farmers can ask questions on farming and receive crowding sourced from other farmers around their vicinity in minutes
Information improves livelihoods
Information can help lift farmers and their families out of poverty. With The farm small-scale farmers can learn how to improve crop yield or how to start a micro-business, enabling them to increase household income
Connect Millions of People
With 90% of smallholder farmers now able to access basic mobile phone, The farm’s goal is to connect million of farmers around Africa to the information they require. We think that everyone on the plant deserves equal access
Smallholders have generation’ worth of farming knowledge to share. We believe that farmers are experts. Now, they have a way to share their expertise. The time has come to give farmers a voice instead of giving ‘top-down’ advice.
Logistics and Transportation
Logistics and transportation will be sorted using the Agro-mart solution that allowed the small farmer in any remote village in Africa to get access truck at the click of a button.
Marketing
online sales platform that connected small holder farmer directly to already market which has a wider geographical size to sell their commodities, which will minimize exploitative buying since farmers are in control of selling their commodities at a price that favors’ them to help reduce post-harvest loss.
in so doing by transform our smallholder farmer and providing them with these resources they do more and produce more food to eradicate zero hunger and transform their lives
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