Our story of providing a holistic approach to ending poverty for African farmers started way back in 2017 with our founder and current CEO Joseph Ogwal who was brought up by two hard-working farmers and he lived the problem he is trying to solve.
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Joseph, began his agricultural career at FAPAD, an NGO that is working with farmers in Northern Uganda, and went on to join USAID’s Feed the Future project, while also managing engagement with World Food Program.
Having lived and worked in rural central Uganda, where his job was to give input loans to smallholder farmers and develop a repayment process on their microloans, Joseph knew there was a problem smallholder farmers had in accessing climate-resilient varieties and a solid repayment system.
Joseph started Agro Supply by recruiting a team of developers to build their save-to-buy layaway technology that would allow farmers to save money in their mobile wallet and use the fund to buy inputs during planting season without taking anything on credit. removing the need to worry about interest rates.
As well, Agro Supply sourced the inputs from local and international seed companies, and after conducting R&D on these seeds, we introduced them to farmers. Coupled with digital and on-farm training, Agro Supply is completing the value chain by providing a ready market to all these farmers to ultimately increase their yields and incomes.
Our story of providing a holistic approach to ending poverty for African farmers started way back in 2017 with our founder and current CEO Joseph Ogwal who was brought up by two hard-working farmers and he lived the problem he is trying to solve.
Joseph, began his agricultural career at FAPAD, an NGO that is working with farmers in Northern Uganda, and went on to join USAID’s Feed the Future project, while also managing engagement with World Food Program.
Having lived and worked in rural central Uganda, where his job was to give input loans to smallholder farmers and develop a repayment process on their micro-loans, Joseph knew there was a problem smallholder farmers had in accessing climate-resilient varieties and a solid repayment system.
Joseph started Agro Supply by recruiting a team of developers to build their save-to-buy layaway technology that would allow farmers to save money in their mobile wallet and use the fund to buy inputs during planting season without taking anything on credit. removing the need to worry about interest rates.
As well, Agro Supply sourced the inputs from local and international seed companies, and after conducting R&D on these seeds, we introduced them to farmers. Coupled with digital and on-farm training, Agro Supply is completing the value chain by providing a ready market to all these farmers to ultimately increase their yields and incomes.
