Farmers in sentence

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With a passionate and committed team and the tremendous support of our partners, we grew dramatically, today, serving 20,000 small farmers, enabling them to double their yields and triple their net income relative to their peers.

In a few short years, we have shown that our model works, is high-impact and can turn a profit, attracting commercial investors that do not typically invest in small farmers in Africa.

The next thing I believe is that we need to create technologies for poor farmers to add value to their own crops.

And we need to rethink our development strategies, so that we're not promoting educational campaigns to get them to stop being farmers, but rather to stop being poor farmers.

Because it includes all transactions: wholesale, channels, retail, online, offline, going into a shopping mall or going into a farmers market like this.

Agricultural companies are using it to improve farmers' crop yields.

I was part of land rights movement, farmers' movement and women's movement.

It's where farmers can bring their animals to one place and get fodder and water.

Now today, I insure farmers against droughts like those in the year of the cup, or to be more specific, I insure the rains.

She launched an ambitious plan to start a green revolution in her country, and before we knew it, we were importing tons of fertilizer and seed and telling farmers how to apply that fertilizer and plant.

A couple of weeks later, the International Monetary Fund visited us, and asked my minister, "Minister, it's great that you want to help farmers reach food security, but what if it doesn't rain?"

It's been six years since, and last year I was fortunate enough to be part of a team that insured over 185,000 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda against drought.

For example, for maize at planting, you need to have two days of rain for farmers to plant, and then it needs to rain once every two weeks for the crop to properly germinate.

We set ourselves a modest target of 500 farmers insured after our first season.

After a couple of months' intense marketing, we had signed up the grand total of 185 farmers.

Everybody kept telling me that farmers wanted insurance, but our prime customers simply weren't buying.

We tried for some years selling insurance directly to farmers, with very high marketing cost and very limited success.

Then we realized that there were many organizations working with farmers: seed companies, microfinance institutions, mobile phone companies, government agencies.

They were all providing loans to farmers, and often, just before they'd finalize the loan, the farmer would say, "But what if it doesn't rain?

At the start of February 2012 in western Kenya, the rains started, and they started early, and when rains start early, farmers are encouraged, because it usually means that the season is going to be good.

We'd insured the loans of a microfinance institution that had provided those loans to about 6,000 farmers in that area, and we called them up and said, "Look, we know about the drought.

Then these farmers can still replant and can get a harvest this season."

So we convinced our insurance partners, and later that April, these farmers replanted.

We took the idea of replanting to a seed company and convinced them to price the cost of insurance into every bag of seed, and in every bag, we packed a card that had a number on it, and when the farmers would open the card, they'd text in that number, and that number would actually help us to locate the farmer and allocate them to a satellite pixel.

Insurance secured his harvest that season, and I believe that today, we have all the tools to enable African farmers to take control of their own destiny.

Now, Erick realized that agriculture would be the key to creating jobs in the rural areas of Madagascar, but he also realized that fertilizer was a very expensive input for most farmers in Madagascar.

There are a lot of farmers doing this today.

They make these wireless sensors designed like plastic rulers that farmers can stick in different parts of the field and start collecting detailed information like soil conditions.

This dynamic data allows farmers to optimize use of water energy while improving quality of the products and the yields, which is a great solution for California, which faces major water shortage.

One: You loan 200 dollars to each of 500 banana farmers allowing them to dry their surplus bananas and fetch 15 percent more revenue at the local market.

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