Using Bitcoin To Change 100 Families — Women Farmers Accelerator Update

100 Women Farmers this planting season of 2016 are starting their farming projects through and with the help of Bitcoin via BitMari, a Pan-African bitcoin startup aiming to facilitate a cheaper means of sending money back to Africa by using bitcoin and the blockchain and it is spearheading the Zimbabwe Women Farmers Accelerator.

This accelerator has been started so that it can help women farmers with access to markets, inputs, expert help, access to an alternative cheaper banking with #BitCoin and access to start up funds to kickstart their season. The Zimbabwe Women Farmers Accelerator has partnered with Agribank, input suppliers and The Women Farmers Land and Agriculture Trust.

Bitcoin is the mainstay of their project as most of their transcribing and purchases will be done via Bitcoin using the Bitmari Wallet which they will be using on their android and iOS cellphones making sure they have access to receive, store and redeem their Bitcoins

These women farmers were chosen through the Women Farmers Land and Agriculture Trust from the ten different provinces in Zimbabwe and placed in groups of ten and each group has chosen a specific crop that they would work with.

Group 1: Dombo Rinorarama

Mashonaland Central Mazowe

Quail birds

Group 2: Madamombe

Mashonaland East — Goromonzi

Tomatoes

Group 3: Tayambuka

Mash East — Wedza

Tomatoes

Group 4: Ruvimbiso

Manicaland — Mutare

Poultry- Eggs

Group 5: Mama Mafunyana Muqhabuko

Midlands -Kwekwe

Maize Seed

Group 6: Anogona ndiMai

Midlands — Churumanzi

Green Mealies

Group 7: Inyoni Yakugala

Bulawayo- Mzilikazi

Green Mealies

Group 8: Thuthukani Bomama

Bulawayo -Reigate

Green Mealies

Group 9: Chivavarira

Masvingo -Zaka

Green Mealies

Group 10: Kutenda

Harare-Nyabira

Butternut

BitMari is currently teaching these women farmers how to use their #BitMari and also running a tilt campaign to raise $22 500 to help these women farmers reach their desired goals and expected harvest. The farmers will have one complete year to undertake the projects they would have selected and pay back the $255 each. Successful farmers select the next group of farmers who will then receive the money for inputs from the previous year. #WomenFarmingBitCoin #YesToBitMari

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