Agritech startup Lersha has partnered with the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) to expand its comprehensive digital solutions for smallholder farmers, with the goal of reaching one million farmers.
The partnership, which also aims to create digital profiles for these one million farmers, seeks to establish a framework that will pave the way for the efficient and seamless development and distribution of various digital agricultural services that target smallholder farmers across diverse value chains and commodities.
The two entities formalized their collaboration yesterday August 28, 2023, by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The partnership will span a three-year period until 2026, encompassing six regions, Amhara, Oromia, Somalia, Tigray, SNNPR, and Sidama.
This geographic scope includes the potential incorporation of 150 Farmer Production Clusters woredas into the program. These Farmer Production Clusters involve groups of 30 to 200 farmers pooling…
