Dar es Salaam - Wednesday 15th July AGRIinsight announces major commercial partnerships with Tanzanian and Kenya based partners completing the digitisation of their rice supply chain. The company can now offer a full digital farm to fork service that allows smallholders to connect directly with large urban markets. “We are excited to be working in …
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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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 …
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 …
