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AgroMantaro
PE
AgroMantaro is a Peruvian agro processor of artichokes and jalapenos that sources from small scale farmers throughout Peru and has located its processing plant in the central Peruvian Andes. By maintaining long term relationships with customers like General Mills and McCain AgroMantaro provides a steady income to hundreds of small scale farmers as well as job security for more than 600 employees at its processing plant 90 percent of whom are women employed in their first formal job. AgroMantaro's growth is critical in these rural regions where most farmers earn little income and unemployment is at 30 percent. Since becoming a Root Capital client in 2010 AgroMantaro has been able to increase sales and production by 50 percent.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
Agrostar
India
AgroStar aims to transform Agri business for farmers in rural India. AgroStar have built a direct to farmer m commerce platform through which farmers can procure agri inputs needed for their farms by simply giving a missed call on the platform and eventually accessing the mobile app. AgroStar is headquartered out of Pune and currently operates in the states of Gujarat Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Farmers in these states can procure an entire range of good quality and branded agri inputs like seeds crop nutrition crop protection and agri hardware products through the company's m commerce platform.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Fruiteq
Burkina Faso
Fruiteq a private export company founded in 2005 buys organic and Fair Trade fresh mangoes from more than 500 small scale producers to whom they provide technical training and financial support. Fruiteq is located in Burkina Faso a landlocked West African nation where more than 70 percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day. Root Capital financing has enabled Fruiteq to expand its supplier base fulfill orders and provide much needed income in an impoverished nation.rn
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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GreenFingers Mobile
South Africa
GreenFingers Mobile is a mobile technology platform which manages and finances large groups of smallholder farmers in value chains.GreenFingers Mobile replaces pen and paper based management systems with real time big data to reduce transaction costs and enable the efficient inclusion of smallholder farmers in global value chains.GreenFingers Mobile was initially piloted in 2013 and fully established in 2015. The technology solution currently operates in three countries managing over 5000 smallholder farmers across commodities like ABE chilli soy sorghum and maize.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
Smart Agri Solutions
Smart Agri Solutions provides modular off grid packhouse and storage facilities so that rural smallholder farmers can be incorported into commercial agricultural value chains.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Sunshine Agro Products Limited
Belgium
The aim of our existence is to create a positive impact for people in rural areas through agricultural production. The concept of the business focuses on promoting agriculture as a business for rural farmers and by so doing they focus on providing skills directly through training farmers providing to farmers direct contacts with inputs suppliers providing direct and sustainable markets by buying back quality produce from farmers. Finally the concept focuses on branding and packaging those products and selling to local regional and international retailers and consumers. This is the only way they can help improve the livelihoods of thousands of poor people.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
Zamgoat
Zambia
Zamgoat is an impact agribusiness dedicated to the sustainable commercialization of the goat value chain. Primarily Zamgoat is pioneering the value addition and improved distribution of goat products targeting the growing local regional and global market demand for goat meat and related products empowering smallholder farmers in Zambia through enhanced access to market ultimately enhancing the economic and climate resilience of rural communities. Founded in July 2012 Zamgoat started out with a meat products operation processing and selling goat meat products both on retail and wholesale to end consumers through own retail outlets(butcheries) as well as deliveries to supermarkets restaurants and hotels among other intermediaries. At scale the company is designed to grow across the goat value chain through vertical integration with among other demand side operations in culinary services through its proprietary brands including Zamgoat Xpress BillyBurgers and Pizzagoat Africa and then later also pursue goat leather and dairy products operations while also offering of knowledge services and improved breeding genetics to smallholder farmers through Zamgoat Information Services and Zamgoat Farms among other supply side operations aimed at securing a consistent and improved supply chain. The company has to date purchased over 5000 goats providing a guaranteed market opportunity for over 500 smallholder farmers in Zambia and generating over $500000 in revenues. Having successfully developed a proven business model and a growing market over the last ten years Zamgoat is seeking to scale up its meat products operation by setting up an export ready goat slaughterhouse and meat processing facility in Lusaka as well as enhancing the company's supply chain by setting up goat aggregation centers in targeted rural communities across Zambia.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |