Agriculture

Meet the mbora Hub 's neighbours, Patuma, Mina, Sania and Jamia. They were the first women smallscale farmers to enter a 50:50 profit share with mbora to develop high yielding market gardens.

These market gardens produce staples and vegetables for local markets. Our mboraAGRI team is providing solar irrigation, inputs, technical expertise, training and supervision. The women contribute land and labour.

The women benefit from higher and more regular earnings paid digitally into their new bank accounts and mbora's village savings and loan scheme, mboraMAX. As paid up mbora members they're also receiving access to free consultations in the Hub's Health Clinic.

This is Ronnex, a smallholder farmer from Malindi Village. He's also a mbora user and a member of mboraMAX, mbora’s village savings and loans scheme. In the morning Ronnex walked 6km to use mbora’s free internet access to research tomatoes and business planning. In the afternoon our mboraAGRI team were on his farm offering him a few pointers.

Ronnex has since received a job with mbora as one of our Agricultural Extension Officers working with our farming groups in market gardens.

mbora implements a commercially viable equitable farming model. These images show mbora’s partnership with a new group of women in Ulande District, Lake Malawi. This farming groups is being trained by mboraAGRI to farm using modern techniques and they will soon have access to financial services, a clinic/medical aid, and free internet in the new mbora Hub on their doorstep.