How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
Our immediate focus is to enable peasants effectively harvest maize by providing modern maize harvest technology services (Maize shellers) to ensure they continue getting enough food during and after the COVID-19.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a prototype or a simple version I can show my customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Project Manager, Simeon Mihinga: Teacher and social entrepreneur; trainings and teaches on entrepreneurship with agriculture included, composing competence-based criteria and assessment entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship motivator. Interests: personal learning on entrepreneurship, watching football and signing.Has been training peasants on modern agricultural entrepreneurship Business Development Manager, Donatus Mwenda: A holder of post graduate SACCOS and Cooperative management. For 25 years has been working with financial and agricultural co-operatives as co-operative officer, SACCOS manager, zonal manager for 12 SACCOS in a network, field officer serving 3 SACCOS and now a freelancer and local consultant for Agriterra, a Dutch organization supporting farmers through capacity building of their respective cooperatives.Field and marketing officer, Vitus Lucas: Rural peasant teacher trainer, Worked at Mahinya and Tecnoserve as a field production supervisor mobilizing production of cereal crops including grains in Tanzania.
What countries do you operate in?
Tanzania
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
