1/ I spent the summer working with an exciting new ag-tech company, @agrithmics, learning about smallholder farmers. Here is what I learned…
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2/ In most countries, smallholder farmers are not able to access capital given their lack of hard assets required for collateral and the seasonal and highly variable nature of their incomes.
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3/ Most farmers are impacted by pilferage due to the lack of digitisation and accurate measurement systems between farm-gate and factory.
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4/ There is a lack of awareness of good agricultural practices and the safe use of agrochemicals.
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5/ In many cases government-led interventions have not yielded the desired results.
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6/ In most countries market linkages are inefficient and as a result smallholder farmers are only able to capture a very small percentage of the final value of their output.
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7/ In many countries farmland is being converted to commercial and industrial land which leads to what were already small plot sizes becoming even smaller.
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8/ Read more about the plight of smallholder farmers on my blog,
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