eFarms is a revolutionary digital agriculture model deployed to tackle the problems of paucity in funding for agriculture,
food insecurity and underutilization of abundant arable land, increasing youth unemployment, and difficulty in accessing a
consistent supply of high quality traceable produce that has bedeviled Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic landscape. By leveraging
on pools of investment from investors passionate about the agricultural sector, but lacking the skills and time to execute
effectively; and making same available to farmers, both active farmers, as well as potential graduate farmers, and connecting
this to produce offtakers, we provide a sustainable solution to these problems.
efarms presents a preselect list of farms comprising of different crops and animals, chosen with careful consideration to demand,
yield, Return of Investment (ROI), and Tenure of investment. These are divided into sub units corresponding to minimum investments
for each farm. Thus, a maize farm may consist of 100 Acres of sub-farms, which may be in different locations. All farms are insured.
To participate, a potential farm-investor would go through our platform, browse through all the farms with their corresponding GPS
Coordinates, ROI, Expected Yield, Tenure of Investment displayed, read the FAQs, ask questions; then register, and select
for funding the farm of their choice. During the tenure of investment, the farm-investor gets bi-weekly feedback in the form of videos,
pictures, texts, and can book onsite farm visit if he chooses. At the end of the investment tenure, the Farm-Investor gets back
his initial capital and his returns on investment varying for different crops and
different tenures. For further details explore our farms.
When a participant registers as either an active farmer, or graduate farmer, they are screened; only qualified farmers can
participate or be on-boarded. Active farmers are assessed for crops they have experience growing, a feasibility study on the
suitability of land they use for selected crop would be evaluated, and if matching, the farmer’s operation is funded. For the
graduate farmers, they can only be on-boarded at the end of their training on crops selected. The funding of farmers comes in the
form of provision of inputs needed for the quantity of crops chosen, and monthly stipends agreed upon. This measure is to ensure that
funds are used for agreed upon purposes, as well as uniformity of produce, as the same seedlings would be provided to all farmers.
The active learner chooses what crop to follow and is able to learn across all our media platforms. He may later decide to begin
his own farm, or work with us. The produce offtakers also registers and keeps track of our produce and the harvest time; with the view to
buying them once they are ready.