Our Services
AGRICASH provides support and delivers its services to communities (from revolving funds arising from partnerships, grants received from the donor community for specific projects targeting specified interventions) in the following ways:
- Engage and train rural communities on the production and supply of organically produced and certified legume seeds produced using climate smart agriculture methods
- Source and provide basic legume seed to trained farmers for the production and marketing of certified legume seeds
- Link farmers to markets for their field and vegetable crops produced using rotation systems to support climate smart agriculture
- Develop value added agro-based products that are manufactured and marketed to a wide range of customers both at community and national level
- Develop sustainable financial systems, such as the small financial loan revolving fund system, aimed at supporting agribusinesses at household and community level
The Marketing Plan
Agricash supports resource poor rural households with various agriculture and business support services such as intensifying the legume seed industry from production through training and empowering seed growers with foundation seed, provide markets to the food legume crops, add value at community and household level to the legume crops into various Agricash branded products.
Agricash provides and links communities to markets for their legume crops and value added products. It also does this by exposing the products to various food safety certification processes to ensure quality is checked in order to enter into classified national and foreign markets for its products.
The marketing plan includes
- Providing market to the legume seeds/grains and crops to contribute towards the national demand
- Provide credit facilities to rural farmers at basic and very low interest levels for them to develop their small agribusinesses, including agro-dealing in seed inputs, stock feed development, small livestock and poultry development
- It is doing research to produce and market various value-added products which include peanut butter, soy-based drink enriched with minerals and vitamins, stock feed, orange fleshed sweet potato scones and chips
The company links the communities to other major markets for the value-added products both in the community and the various national supermarkets
The main objectives for the seed market can be characterized as follows:
- to meet the local demand within the community
- meet national demand from the various buyers and institutions that buy in relatively large quantities