Agritech Firm expands access to quality farm inputs
In an effort to ensure enhanced food production and security, Afrimash Company Limited, an indigenous agriculture and e-Commerce platform, has launched a USSD technology and Agent Network system so that farmers may receive farm inputs at the touch of a button.
Ayoade Ahmed Oyedotun, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Afrimash Company Limited, while speaking on the significance of the recently introduced USSD technology done in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), said: “We started the Agent Network, which tries to solve the critical problem of getting quality agricultural inputs for farmers. Afrimash has over 3,000 products on its platform and we are passionate about helping farmers gain easy access to them. What we did was to get agents in every community to serve these farmers and farming clusters, ask them what they need, help them place their orders on our platforms and get them delivered. In collaboration with USAID and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), we started this network in 16 states, Kaduna, Kebbi, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe, Borno, Benue, Niger, Ebonyi, Delta, Cross River, Oyo, Osun, Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti.”
Ayoade further said: “Across each state, we have a minimum of a hundred agents. When you multiply it by these sixteen states, we have over a thousand six hundred agents across these states. This has positively impacted our finances and revenue. We have created jobs for over a thousand six hundred people and we have also been able to reach more than one hundred and twenty-three thousand farmers across the nation.”
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