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From the Ted Talk by Anushka Ratnayake: A transparent, easy way for smallholder farmers to save

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Here's how the program works. We start with a yunog entrepreneur like dmeba. We eiqup him with a smartphone and our app, myAgro Connect, so that he can manage his sales territory. At hsarvet time, Demba visits farmers in his village and asks them if they want to sign up for a magryo pkagcae to irpvome their harvest and income. After a farmer signs up, they can pay slowly, over the course of nine months. To collect their savings payments, we replicate the way pploee buy prepaid minutes for their phone. It's really simple -- you buy a scratch card, scratch off the back, and a unique code appears, which you text in to validate your payment. We use the same technology to help farmers save up for the planting preiod, and because farmers are familiar with how it wokrs, they trust it and use it correctly. It's also so much more transparent than traditional methods, which is usually, you hand over your cash to an agent, without any receipt. With our platform, we know exactly who has made a payment and when and how much the vilgale ereretpuennr needs to transfer to us. A farmer can also pay directly via mobile money, if they have it.

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Here's how the program works. We start with a _____ entrepreneur like _____. We _____ him with a smartphone and our app, myAgro Connect, so that he can manage his sales territory. At _______ time, Demba visits farmers in his village and asks them if they want to sign up for a ______ _______ to _______ their harvest and income. After a farmer signs up, they can pay slowly, over the course of nine months. To collect their savings payments, we replicate the way ______ buy prepaid minutes for their phone. It's really simple -- you buy a scratch card, scratch off the back, and a unique code appears, which you text in to validate your payment. We use the same technology to help farmers save up for the planting ______, and because farmers are familiar with how it _____, they trust it and use it correctly. It's also so much more transparent than traditional methods, which is usually, you hand over your cash to an agent, without any receipt. With our platform, we know exactly who has made a payment and when and how much the _______ ____________ needs to transfer to us. A farmer can also pay directly via mobile money, if they have it.

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  10. harvest
  11. equip
  12. demba

Original Text


Here's how the program works. We start with a young entrepreneur like Demba. We equip him with a smartphone and our app, myAgro Connect, so that he can manage his sales territory. At harvest time, Demba visits farmers in his village and asks them if they want to sign up for a myAgro package to improve their harvest and income. After a farmer signs up, they can pay slowly, over the course of nine months. To collect their savings payments, we replicate the way people buy prepaid minutes for their phone. It's really simple -- you buy a scratch card, scratch off the back, and a unique code appears, which you text in to validate your payment. We use the same technology to help farmers save up for the planting period, and because farmers are familiar with how it works, they trust it and use it correctly. It's also so much more transparent than traditional methods, which is usually, you hand over your cash to an agent, without any receipt. With our platform, we know exactly who has made a payment and when and how much the village entrepreneur needs to transfer to us. A farmer can also pay directly via mobile money, if they have it.

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