AgriShare App wins Digital Excellence Award

Agrishare App, an agricultural innovative application has won a Digital Excellence Award from Hipipo in collaboration with other partners.

The award came up after Agrishare App excelled in Consumer Goods and Services Digital Excellence under the Digital Impact Awards Africa, which are foremost recognitions and celebrate the most innovative actors in areas of digital technologies.

AgriShare App took home the highly coveted award for Consumer Goods and Services Digital Excellence beating off stiff competition from other remarkable companies including Movit, Faras, Jude Color Solutions and more.

The event at Kampala Serena Hotel, was graced by the State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Owek. Joyce Nabbosa Ssebuggwawo, who thanked everyone with an innovative mind.

Ssebuggwawo, promised that her government, is willing to support and stand with people who are contributing to the Digital and technology sector, through helping the local population to curb society problems.

The organisers describe this award category as one which honors the brand that recognizes exceptional use of digitaltechnologies to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, improve marketing, and drive innovation in the consumer goods and services sector, setting benchmarks for industry transformation and growth.

The Managing Director for AgriShare App, Paul Zaake, was delighted that the app was able to win this noble award. “This award celebrates AgriShare’s enduring commitment to empowering farmers and transforming access to agricultural resources & equipment through digital innovation.” said Zaake.

He added that, “AgriShare App allows farmers to hire or buy agricultural resources like irrigation pumps, farm land, tractors and much more, therefore, we are pleased to partner with other stakeholders to enable farmers to easily, affordably and conveniently access the most

needed agricultural resources in Uganda using AgriShare digital innovation”

Owners of farm land or other unused equipment as well are offered an opportunity to list them on AgriShare App so that other farmers can hire them at a small fee.

In Uganda, almost 60% of people are farmers, but the majority of these are living in abject poverty, which make them fail to access key resources like fertilisers, good seeds and farming equipment.

Many of these are still using hand hoes, only 1.2% of farmers are using tractors. Yet mechanization helps farmers grow crops 40 times faster at one-third of the cost.

Few farmers in Uganda can afford buying irrigation systems, no wonder only 1.3% of the cultivated land is irrigated according to the World Bank, 2018 report.

According to Food and Agriculture Organization findings. Many farmers are indicating shortage or unreliability of both casual and skilled labour and yet many youths are unemployed. Research shows that farmers in Uganda like other parts of Sub-saharan Africa are resource constrained and yet some resources  are not used optimumly.

The Marketing and Sales Manager for AgriShare, Caroline Nalubwama said, that “as a big thanks to our farmers, we extend a special 60% discount offer up to the end of 2024 to our farmers hiring or buying our select key solar products including solar irrigation or solar fridges.”

This app can be downloaded from the Internet.

AgriShare is a digital startup comprising a mobile app, website, agents, and customer center via which farmers can easily hire or buy farming resources through a shared economy model. AgriShare has an offering component enabling people who own resources to list them on the AgriShare platform for hiring to others. On the other side, it has the Seeking component that enables farmers to hire or rent agricultural resources. The resources categories include irrigation, processing, farm

workers, tractors,and farmland. In Uganda, AgriShare has offices in almost every part of the country.