{"id":385,"date":"2018-07-13T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T09:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2018-07-13T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T09:48:35","slug":"agriculture-lending-from-apollo-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/fintech\/agriculture-lending-from-apollo-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Lending from Apollo Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s lots of innovation in the lending space in Africa.\u00a0 I’ve been in the lending space for 3 years now, but in the mobile space for over 8.\u00a0 I can say that the pace of innovation from startups is the fastest I have ever seen it here.\u00a0 Over the next couple weeks, I’ll focus more on some of the interesting companies and products in the space.\u00a0 To start off here’s<\/a> a link to an article discussing Apollo Agriculture, a Kenyan Startup that\u00a0supplies small Kenyan farmers with high-quality farming inputs on credit, crop insurance and voice-based training, using a \u201chigh tech, low touch\u201d model by leveraging advances in mobile money, machine learning and remote sensing technology.\u00a0 Charlie Munger talks about “lolapalooza” effects on businesses, which is when a combination of factors come into play and the business grows exponentially because of it.\u00a0 Agriculture in Africa is looking to be a sector where there could be a lolapalooza moment soon.\u00a0 The combination of better seeds, more access to information, smarter insurance, and remote sensing means farmers are provided with tools that could realistically\u00a0boost their harvests by several factors.\u00a0 Along with that, there’s startups looking at the supply chain to ensure that these harvests get to market, and startups looking at fintech solutions for farmers in the offseason.\u00a0 So, the micro and macro factors are lining up for farming in Africa.\u00a0 Watch this space and the startups in it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s lots of innovation in the lending space in Africa.\u00a0 I’ve been in the lending space for 3 years now, but in the mobile space for over 8.\u00a0 I can say that the pace of innovation from startups is the fastest I have ever seen it here.\u00a0 Over the next couple weeks, I’ll focus more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech","category-startup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}