Name: Zowasel
Department: Strategy
Industry (for companies only): Fisheries / Agriculture
Location: Headquartered in Nigeria and operate in Kenya and Tanzania
Challenge areas to be addressed
Economic development (Details: Agriculture and rural development)
Overview
Pilot and scale access to affordable agricultural mechanization rental services for smallholder farmers across Nigeria and Tanzania to increase their productivity, reduct post-harvest losses and earn more from their farms.
Target region / country
Africa – Nigeria and Tanzania
Details
We have build our digital and remote technology as commercial facilities to serve smallholder farmers. We develop and upscale farm houses into digital crop centers to drive operations for famers, no we seek agricultural machinery such as tractors, harvesters and planters to scale our support for the farmers
Category
Funding (investment, subsidies, donations, etc.), Network / Connection, Global network, Media, Other
Details
Zowasel has build online and offline remote infrastruction called Crop Centers available across rural communities serving as commercial facilities for target farmers across cooperatives
Category
Technology, Service / Product, Customer base, Sales channel, Customer support function, Data, Proof-of-concept environment, Human resources, Know-how, Network / Connection, Research institution, Production equipment
Reference (JICA-owned assets)
Tokyo, Nagoya