DAS is currently operationalized in the value chains of: Soyabean, Rice, Sunflower, Maize, Sorghum, Millet, Common Beans, Cassava and Coffee. Primarily these are noted as value chains that have ready partner offtakers making it easier to commercialise the farmers and create product traction on the available resource base without carrying the product deployment cost to the smallholder farmer.
About DAS
Digital Agricultural Suite (DAS)
The Digital Agricultural Suite (DAS) is a multipurpose digital platform that aims to improve financial inclusion of smallholder farmers in Uganda and the greater sub-saharan Africa eco -system through leveraging a data as a currency.
The DAS inclusiveness business Model is built on the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach that ensures that last mile market solutions are designed and deployed with the rural smallholder farmer in mind, primarily to attend to systemic causes of the initial problem.
This is also to the benefit of all partners across the value chains off-takers, market information, Production support (agricultural inputs), Extension and agro - advisory services and financial services (savings and credit) through increased cost – efficiencies, reduced cost of transaction, improved traceability through leveraging the digital footprint created through the transactions and data capture and the subsequent safety proof provided by the gnuGrid Credit Reference Bureau (CRB). In all ways, DAS solves the financial inclusion conundrum by helping create a verifiable and attributable digital footprint across all the other nodes of the valuechain from production to markets.
