This document summarizes an agribusiness program in Mozambique that provides training and support to smallholder farmers. The program addresses challenges smallholders face like low yields, limited market access, and lack of information. It does this through hands-on education, data-driven guidance, and helping farmers organize into cooperatives to access larger markets. Over six years, the program has seen outcomes like decreased mortality rates for chickens by half and increased production five-fold. It aims to continue scaling its model of combining offline training with ongoing online support.

1. Mozambique,
Smallholder Farming,
And Technology
Presented at Tokyo Changemakers
By Paul Lam (@Quantisan), InGrower Mobile

2. Anders Frigaard,
Business Manager
Akil Mussá,
Software Developer
Edrisse Mussá,
Software Developer
Alexander Chaúque,
Field Manager
Paul Lam,
Software Manager
Jose Machado,
Project Director

3. Supported by

5. Maputo

6. Maputo

7. Kruger National Park

8. Moamba

10. 267 hectares

17. We are an agribusiness school

18. Alberto, 19
Entrepreneur
Jorge, 22
Entrepreneur
Vicente,
Entrepreneur

19. Vicente with his new farm
back at his home

20. Agribusiness Program Timeline
- graduate
- Saved
US$5000
- Start
home
business
- 800
chickens
- Start
school
- Start training
- Seed capital
2 years0 month 2 months 20 months

21. Smallholder Farming

22. Agriculture Employee vs Entrepreneur
Field employee
● No capital requirement
● Minimal skills requirement
● Average salary $1500 per
annum
Smallholder entrepreneur
● Asset Accumulation
● Scalability
● Average income $3300 per
annum with 1 chicken house

23. Why raise chickens
● Easy and inexpensive to care
● A good investment
● Can keep the children healthy
● Empower women
Why I Would Raise Chickens, Bill Gates,
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Why-I-Would-Raise-Chickens

24. Potentials and Challenges

25. All that can go wrong...

26. Business potentials for agri-business in Africa
● Fertile land
● Availability of work force
● Attractive markets
● Funding availability

27. Smallholder farmers are at a disadvantage
● Limited ability to meet market standards
● Low crop yield and low volume of sales
● Poor market information and contacts
Source: World Bank
http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/how-can-we-help-smallholder-farmers-seize-opportunities-in-africa
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/02/25/a-year-in-the-lives-of-smallholder-farming-families

28. Increasing quality

33. Minister of Agriculture visit, 2016

35. Increasing yield

37. Early years

39. Decreased mortality rates by half and
increased production five-fold

40. Increasing market access

41. Source: Wikipedia
Year 2

42. Year 4

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44. Year 6

45. Year 8

46. Presenting to President Nyusi

47. Summary

48. Summary
✓ Limited ability to meet market standards
○ Hands-on education and peer-to-peer support
✓ Low crop yield and low volume of sales
○ Expert guidance and data analytics
✓ Poor market information and contacts
○ Aggregated production to access bigger markets as a
co-operative

49. So what?

50. Consider the humans
- Jer Thorp

51. “It helps me make money”

53. Paul Lam
paul@ingrower.com
@Quantisan
https://www.facebook.com/IncubatorMoamba/
Thank you!

54. Combining offline training + online support
- gradudate
- Saved
US$5000
- Start
home
business
- 800
chickens
- Start
school
- Start training
- Seed capital
2 years0 month 2 months
- Start home business
- 100 chickens
- Ongoing support +
training online
- Start
school
0 month 3 months
- Graduate
- Seed
capital
Current
Future
6 months
20 months