m-Omulimisa is an Agritech company that leverages mobile technologies ,farmer networks, and partnerships to provide critically needed agriculture services to smallholder farmers in Uganda.
The services are distributed in form micro input loans through a network of commission and mobile based village agents which provides self employment opportunities for rural youth. The project will operate an ICT powered village agent model that will use a network of village agents to provide a bundle to agriculture related services including Agriculture insurance , inputs demand aggregation and distribution , mobile based agriculture extension , soil testing and micro loans.

The network of over 40 village agents works with over 300 farmer groups with a combined membership of over 9000 members across 9(nine) districts across the Lango and Acholi sub regions in Northern Uganda. The model offers all incentives to all actors in the agriculture sector to remain in business : demand is created for the input suppliers , farmers are willing to invest in improved technologies which have been tested and proven market ready since they have access to affordable credit; micro finance institutions have access to a wide market of well -organized farmer groups that present a low risk due to agriculture insurance, and due to increased demand for agriculture products , village agents earn more commission too in the long run. For input distribution, we have partnered with suppliers of agricultural inputs and through our network of community based agents, we distribute genuine and low priced inputs for farmers in their hard to reach communities. For Agricultural loans our village agent model follows a holistic approach so it provides a variety of services such as inputs acquisitions, agricultural finance, production and marketing. For mobile based extension, the platform leverages human mediation , video, imagery and text messaging to create a mobile and web based virtual consultion space amongst the hard to reach smallholder farmers

https://www.m-omulimisa.com

• Uganda

• Remote and rural communities

It harnesses the potential of information and communication technology to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, namely the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women