{"id":7927,"date":"2023-08-09T04:07:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T04:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=7927\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:02:48","slug":"agrospaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/agrospaces\/","title":{"rendered":"AgroSpaces, a platform to ameliorate local agriculture and empower smallholder farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Africa, agriculture is predominantly an occupation for the aged. Young people shy away from going into farming because of a perceived mindset. AgroSpaces is changing this mindset by making agriculture attractive to the younger generation with the use of technology and innovations thus empowering youth employment in the agricultural sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c$30 billion\u201d is the amount Smallholder farmers in Africa lose annually. Middlemen buy farm produce from farmers at cheaper prices and resell them in urban market thus having greater profits. By eliminating the middleman, AgroSpaces connects smallholder farmers to their customers directly online to trade fairly and equitably.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroSpaces delivers unrivalled products and services that ensures sustainable food security and accelerate growth in agriculture. AgroSpaces delivers real-time commodity prices from major markets in the country, weather forecast and farming advices to farmers directly on their mobile phone via SMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Link to online video<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QqvyJQWp1Os&#038;t=6s<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroAlerts; AgroAlerts are alerts send to farmers (SMS or Invoice alerts). This alerts include commodity prices from local markets, weather forecast reports and farming advice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroMarket; AgroMarket help smallholder farmers sell their farm produce to a wider online market and also buy farming.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroData; AgroData is a data aggregation system where we produce agricultural data for organizations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroTalks; AgroTalks are workshop organized by AgroSpaces monthly through which we put in contact smallholder farmers and agricultural experts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your success factors\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our growth strategy<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroAlerts services are available online and offline (web, mobile and USSD) to farmers, these farmers can also receive AgroSpaces alerts by SMS or invoice in different local languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroData is open source agricultural data made available to third parties to enhance agricultural development<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroSpaces opens 3% of its revenues to finance smallholder farmers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model (how do you make money?)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto; color: #000000;\">We take a 10% commission on each transaction done over AgroMarket<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AgroSpaces will be a part of the agribusiness industry in Cameron. Currently, the agribusiness industry is considered a niche market, comprised of different sized companies. The popular ones such as Agro-hub, Mewanko farm, Jangolo farm focus is on inbound marketing for agriculture in Cameroon to provide valuable relevant content for people willing to buy agricultural products from smallholder and others such as CamAgro, Efarm which help farmers increase their productivity and give them that opportunity to reach their traditional customers easier and also get new customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your website\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">www.agrospaces.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Africa, agriculture is predominantly an occupation for the aged. Young people shy away from going into farming because of a perceived mindset. AgroSpaces is changing this mindset by making agriculture attractive to the younger generation with the use of technology and innovations thus empowering youth employment in the agricultural sector. \u201c$30 billion\u201d is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1803],"tags":[1767],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-innovative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213235,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/213235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}