“Our core business is to connect farmers to structured financing solutions to help them grow their capacity,” Emem Essien notes. Crop2Cash is a digital solutions provider that aims to get farmers credible credit solutions for their businesses. We developed a USSD service where farmers dial a code and they can get their credit status verified....Read More

GrowAgric is a “Farmers First” AgTech company by farmers for farmers that optimizes the agricultural value chain for small and medium-scale farmers by providing them with working capital financing, insurance, training, access to digital record keeping tools and connection to buyers at the end of the farming cycle. “My interest in agriculture was sparked by...Read More

Around 88% of Nigeria’s farmers (roughly 40 million) engage in agriculture mainly at a subsistence level with a majority of that population living in the rural areas. Despite its contribution to the economy, Nigeria’s agricultural sector faces many challenges such as outdated land tenure systems, low levels of irrigation farming, climate change and land degradation....Read More

Mali is ranked as the 4th West African country globally in sesame production and the 2nd in growth and production in West Africa. However, up to 95% of Malian Sesame is exported and only about 5% locally-consumed. There is a real need to promote local processing and value addition of sesame, oil seeds and other...Read More

Malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies are rampant in Sub-Saharan Africa with the region having the highest prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in the world. Iodine, vitamin B12 and Zinc deficiencies are also rampant but can be prevented through the fortification of food. Tanzania for example suffers from a high rate of malnutrition(stunting 32%), whereby micronutrient deficiency...Read More

“For us, it has always been utilizing technology and the data we have amassed over the years to create solutions for everyday problems. We then share these solutions with the people in our community, and, sooner or later, that becomes a viable business. This is how Fresh in a Box was born,” Nomaliso Musasiwa, Founder...Read More

Feed protein for farm animals such as pigs and poultry heavily depends on soil-based grains and ocean-derived fish meal. Over-reliance on and the declining availability of these two ingredients in the feed mix have caused price hikes for animal feeds by up to 70%. This means that local smallholder farmers can not sustainably feed their...Read More

According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO), aquaculture in Tanzania has a vast but as yet untapped potential. The industry is dominated by freshwater fish farming in which small-scale farmers practice both extensive and semi-intensive fish farming. It is largely a subsistence activity in Tanzania, practiced by lower-income households in the coastal and...Read More

My entrepreneurial journey with Sayetech began when I volunteered  in a rural community without electricity as a missionary for an interdenominational church. Even though I had trained as an engineer, after my undergraduate studies in Ghana, I decided to give back to the community as a teacher and to do this I decided to volunteer...Read More

“My interest in farming started while I was still at the university pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Development. Our University was located in the rural part of Tanzania and the only things you could see when you stepped out of the university were farms. Being an entrepreneur at heart, this sparked an...Read More