Youth Agripreneur Program launched in Bungoma county, Kenya

The Ministry of Agriculture, County Government of Bungoma as part of the World Bank’s National Agriculture Rural Inclusive Growth Program (NARIGP) and One Million Farmer Platform (OMFP) partnered with Kuza Biashara for its Disruptive Agricultural Technologies (DAT) initiative to benefit the young women/men from the Bungoma county.

Working closely with the county teams, Kuza would be supporting the selected Youth Agripreneurs from 3 wards (Namwela, Kapkateny, and Kaptama) through its Rural Entrepreneur Development Incubators (REDI). With the specially designed Kuza portable digital toolkits each of the Youth Agripreneurs would be able to provide digital extension services to a cohort of 200 smallholder farmers from the banana, dairy, poultry and beans value chains.

The Youth Agripreneur program got kicked off officially on 25 Aug 2022 at Redaros hotel, Kimilili town of Bungoma. Kuza Mentors, Ms. Susan Akinyi & Mr. Francis Kemboi conducted the Agripreneur orientation session in the presence of Mr. Daniel Orwa, the Digital Champion, from Bungoma NARIGP program and the respective Ward Agricultural Officers (WAO).

Kuza mentors would support the selected Youth Agripreneurs through a 15 week MBA style leadership program to equip them with technical and business skills needed, and hand hold them in providing digital extension services to their respective cohorts of smallholder farmers from the Vulnerable & Marginalized Groups (VMG) or Common Interest Groups (CIG).

Youth Agripreneurs would sustain with the commissions they earn by providing agri inputs, farm services and facilitation of credit and markets to their farmers.