Kamal Yakub
| Organization type | Private Sector (Commercial Companies) |
|---|---|
| Country | Ghana |
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Forum e-Agriculture: looking back and moving forward
Question 3 (opens 2 Dec.) What is necessary to ensure ensuring that rural youth, women, the poorest...
Submitted by Kamal Yakub on Wed, 12/04/2013 - 18:50
We are still developing the website. if what you see is the big cow with pictures of social investors and the sign up page then its right. We are hoping to go live before new year.
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Many thanks,
Kamal.
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Many thanks,
Kamal.
Submitted by Kamal Yakub on Wed, 12/04/2013 - 11:10
Hello Alvarez,
Thanks so much for taking the time to go through our website. That shows how interested you are in the fight against poverty and extreme hunger.
This platform will not allow me to answer your questions in detail but I will try.
Many thanks,
Kamal Yakub.
[email protected]
Thanks so much for taking the time to go through our website. That shows how interested you are in the fight against poverty and extreme hunger.
This platform will not allow me to answer your questions in detail but I will try.
- Farmable is formed from two words- 'Farm' and 'able', which means abilty to farm. We are starting with cattle to create a robust module and then apply it to other areas of farming/agriculture. It is easy to apply the model to annual crops and tree plantations and it in our Business Plan. I agree about price control in the fragmented value chain. Here Farmable has devided it's business operations into three namely; Farmable Online Business Unit(FOBU), Social Enterprice Unit(SEU) and Ghana Beef Company Ltd.
- The SEU involves field operations with strategic partners including Development Agencies, NGOs and Universities, that will work together to improve the capacity of Smallholder cattle farmers and the health of their herds. There are more women in rural areas than men due to so many factors and so our focus in the partnership with small holder farmers will be on rural women.
- We are creating partnership with small holder farmers and list their farms on our online platform, showcase progress of their farming activities through videos and SMS to online investors. We will have access to their farms through our farm management tool.
- Our approach is simple partnership. Once our small holder partner farmers know that they are part of the system, our training and capacity buiding will become a routine business process in their daily lives. What is happening now is that NGOs, Develepment Agencies ang Government extension officers organise training for small holder farmers and the leave them to their faith. Farmable will change this. what they need is an enabling Agri-business environment to play in and that is what Farmable model is based on. We will raise funds for them through our FOBU, Partner with them and build their capacity through SEU and market the products through Ghana Beef Company Ltd.
Many thanks,
Kamal Yakub.
[email protected]
Submitted by Kamal Yakub on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 18:07
Enabling global collaborative farming by linking real farms in rural areas with millions of online investors.
Now, removing the obstacles that small holder farmers face is the most crucial effective tool. Most Rural people have little or no formal education, they do not know what institution is available to assist them like UN-FAO and other development Agencies. They cannot go to local Agriculture Extension offices and financial institution to seek for advice or capital to start/improve their farms. The irrational fear of institutions/organisations that are set up to assist them (for example, Minisries of Agriculture, District Agriculture Offices etc.) is happening.
Due to the above reason which basically comes down to funds and technical know how, Agriculture in poor/rural areas has become a career for eople without school knowledge. It is therefore unattractive to youth with little or higher education. Ladies even frowned on marrying those who have chosen Agriculture as career.
I am saying this because I grew up in a typical village setting from central Region of Ghana, have little education and have decided to tackle this in my own small way (www.farmable.me)
The solutions are many but can be tackled one at a time. some of these include;
1. Rebranding farming and presenting it to the youth nicely through Social Media, Websites, and SMS.
2. Making capital easy and accessible for those interested in Agriculture and related businesses.
3. Creating platforms that connect Agriculture to investors in small monetary amounts with returns on investoment. Once food becomes abundant it will cheap and hunger and peoverty will be a story of the past.
There is abundant Agriculture Land in Africa where these poor/rural people leave, all they need is a career that they feel respected doing, easy access to capital and technical know.
NOTE: In doing this, We should not forget to deal with them in business terms, where the Agribusiness environment created is a collaborative one, which invloves buying and selling with them as partners, which will subsequently lead to revenues and pofit generation.
Many Thanks,
Kamal Yakub
Ghana
[email protected]
Now, removing the obstacles that small holder farmers face is the most crucial effective tool. Most Rural people have little or no formal education, they do not know what institution is available to assist them like UN-FAO and other development Agencies. They cannot go to local Agriculture Extension offices and financial institution to seek for advice or capital to start/improve their farms. The irrational fear of institutions/organisations that are set up to assist them (for example, Minisries of Agriculture, District Agriculture Offices etc.) is happening.
Due to the above reason which basically comes down to funds and technical know how, Agriculture in poor/rural areas has become a career for eople without school knowledge. It is therefore unattractive to youth with little or higher education. Ladies even frowned on marrying those who have chosen Agriculture as career.
I am saying this because I grew up in a typical village setting from central Region of Ghana, have little education and have decided to tackle this in my own small way (www.farmable.me)
The solutions are many but can be tackled one at a time. some of these include;
1. Rebranding farming and presenting it to the youth nicely through Social Media, Websites, and SMS.
2. Making capital easy and accessible for those interested in Agriculture and related businesses.
3. Creating platforms that connect Agriculture to investors in small monetary amounts with returns on investoment. Once food becomes abundant it will cheap and hunger and peoverty will be a story of the past.
There is abundant Agriculture Land in Africa where these poor/rural people leave, all they need is a career that they feel respected doing, easy access to capital and technical know.
NOTE: In doing this, We should not forget to deal with them in business terms, where the Agribusiness environment created is a collaborative one, which invloves buying and selling with them as partners, which will subsequently lead to revenues and pofit generation.
Many Thanks,
Kamal Yakub
Ghana
[email protected]