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Resolution Insurance in groundbreaking partnership with AGRIinsight to offer affordable insurance products to Tanzanian farmers.
Dar es Salaam - Monday 29 July Resolution Insurance Ltd and AGRIinsight Ltd today announce a major partnership to offer insurance to farmers using the Ubia Soko platform. The platform offers life changing resources for smallholder farmers across Tanzania, enabling them to access a range of much needed services including insurance products. In collaboration with …
Ubia Soko – Offering farmers what they want
AGRIinsight is well aware of the challenges of ensuring farmers not only sign up to the #ubiasoko services but also become regular users. This week we are in training sessions with the team and our partners ensuring we understand who our target customers are, what they want and how they expect the services to be …
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Knowing your partners
One of the key success factors in any commercial partnership is to understand the business of your partners. We have been fortunate that we have partners that are both open and willing to share the challenges and opportunities they face in building their businesses as well as practicing clear communication that results in a strong …
AGRIinsight announces new Director to support development of our platform in East Africa.
The AGRIinsight Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Mihayo Wilmore as a Director of the Company from immediate effect. As Director, Mihayo will provide leadership to our initiatives specifically in Tanzania and to further the development and rollout of our Ubia Soko application. Mihayo will consolidate and build on our …
A platform for everyone – women make up 30% of early stage sign-ups
Our early stage field registration saw 30% sign ups coming from women. This is very encouraging as currently women are more likely to be denied access to agricultural services including inputs and finance. Although there is still some gender bias towards access to mobile phones (women are 10% less likely to own a phone), access is improving …
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Farmer Registration in Minepa
The next phase in farmer registration has begun. We have had good farmer turnout at the demonstration events in the villages. Here is a clip of farmer registration in Minepa yesterday - with queues forming as farmers waited patiently to be registered and get access to the Ubia Solo services.
Messaging – Day 10
In each village we come to there is enthusiasm. The farmers' questions mainly revolve around prices, passwords and packages. Farmers are keen to understand the specifics of the inputs packages offered on Ubia Soko. Our message here today in Milmba focuses on matching inputs packages to particular commodities as well as how the platform can offer …
Ownership – Day 9
The traders we have been working with on the Ubia Soko rollout have started to lead in the training and awareness building sessions in the villages. The great thing is that they bring specific insights and local knowledge into these sessions as well as showing how Ubia Soko can help address real challenges that farmers …