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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 …
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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We’ve launched! Farmers queue to sign up to app Ubia Soko
In Itete, situated in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, farmers queued to register for our new app, Ubia Soko. We've been delighted with the turnout, and many farmers were keen to start using AgriInsight technology. What is Ubia Soko? Here is Ali Chikomela, who travelled by bicycle to register. Ali is part of the Mbaraji …
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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.
Traders – Day 16
The AGRIinsight field team has arrived back in Ifakara after two weeks on the road. This is a small rural town in the Kilombero District, Morogoro Region and is the main trading centre for Kilombero and Ulanga districts. It is also the headquarters of one of the main traders with whom we are working. When we …
Partners – Day 15
We have learned over the years that you cannot implement field based programmes without partners. We recognise that although we may have the technology and knowhow to implement the rollout of our mobile app, Ubia Soko, we cannot do this on our own. It would be impossible. We have brought together partners to help make …
Meet the field team – Day 14
Meet the Ubia Soko field team on their stopover in Chisano today: Frédéric, Jesko and Joshua. Fred is our CIO and has lived and worked in Tanzania for many years; he has in-depth knowledge of the region. Jesko is one of the larger commodity traders in the Morogoro region and has been central to creating …