Shambapro

Shambapro

Shambapro

A digital platform that helps farmers track production, access credit, and connect with the best markets and input suppliers effortlessly

Kigali, Rwanda

RWA

For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models

Over 33 million small farm owners in Africa cannot access suitable financing or growth and expansion for their farm businesses

A platform to help small farm businesses to reduce risks of borrowing by using farm records, satellite & sensor data to improving access to credit, better markets and supply contracts.

Small farm business owners engaged in the horticulture and livestock value chain are the missing middle between small scale farmers producing for subsistence or commercially through cooperatives with government support with the main purpose of ensuring national food security and all out commercial agriculture ventures that are already linked to good usually export markets, best available finance and ecosystem support. These farm owners have recognized the income generating potential of agribusiness and have invested at least $10,000 in their ventures from their savings from other businesses f employment. They cannot afford to hire a fully-fledged management team but are in the early stages of structuring their businesses to attract available sources of agri-financing. They are usually not the priority of most governments because their produce is already well demanded in the local and export markets and therefore may not attract government subsidies of support from non-governmental organizations which is targeted towards food security. Our solution helps these farm owners to begin the process of maintaining a good track record of their production and financial activities without a significant investment in qualified staff and helps them to attract situatable financing, better markets and better supply contracts.