Safaricom, through its initiative dubbed Digi-farm, will provide technical support such as the provision of quality fertiliser, seeds and other farming inputs to increase productivity.
Bidco, on the other hand, has pledged to provide a ready market for the produce.
Bidco Oil and Safaricom #ticker:SCOM have partnered with the Migori County to promote sunflower and soya beans farming in a move that could significantly cut reliance on imports.
Safaricom, through its initiative dubbed Digi-farm, will provide technical support such as the provision of quality fertiliser, seeds and other farming inputs to increase productivity.
Bidco, on the other hand, has pledged to provide a ready market for the produce.
The firm, which produces edible oils and soaps, has lately been on the spotlight in Tanzania as authorities questioned proportion of imported soya, palm oil and sunflower in its export products.
Representatives of the two firms yesterday met county officials to launch the programme.
Elizabeth Mudogo, an officer from Safaricom’s M-agriculture department, said the programme targets smallholder farmers and it involves issuing out of the key inputs to farmers and then deducting the cost of the inputs from payments after successful harvests.
“What we are doing as Digi-farm is to provide service to simple smallholder farmer. We are interested in ensuring the farmer is able to make money from farming,” said Ms Mudogo.
“Migori is one of the pilot counties and we are targeting to help soya beans and sunflower farmers. We provide an end-to end-service delivery to the farmers.”
The telco trains the farmers via mobile phones, she said.
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