Social Issue

Many farmers in Mali, Senegal, and Tanzania survive on their crops, and their seasonal income is less than a dollar and a half a day. Their situation does not allow them to buy quality seeds to improve the performance of their crops.

Low profits also mean that they have to continue to use outdated and inefficient farming methods due to their inability to acquire adequate tools.

This fact leaves them in a situation of extreme poverty in which for two or three months a year they live with food shortages, which causes serious malnutrition problems.

Our Response

We collaborate with MyAgro Farms, a non-profit company registered in the USA and operating in Mali and Senegal. Its objective is to offer small farmers a savings plan to improve their productivity.

Through a mobile application designed by the company itself, farmers can buy quality seeds, fertilisers, and agricultural tools over a period of nine months before planting, and also receive technical training.

Likewise, myAgro agents work together with the farmers at the time of planting and harvesting to be able to advise them at all times.

Expected Social Impact

The main indicator to measure its impact is to calculate the increase in additional income that farmers have achieved using myAgro services.
Through this method, its farmers on average have achieved an increase of 145 USD in income per year (taking the average between 2015-2017).
In 2018 they already had more than 40,000 farmers subscribed to their services. This investment, according to the methodology used by Netri, will impact more than 1,300 families in 2019.