SmallHolder Farmer Technical partner
RegenZ has curated a basket offering for smallholder farmers in order to achieve the best chance of growing a successful crop and creating a sustainable business.
Who do we work with?
We work with aggregated growing groups. These are groups that manage or support more than 10 smallholder farmers. We partner with the group by understanding their goals and needs, we sign an MOU and we create a three-year plan to prove our product pack and distribute it across the farming group.
The Southern African Smallholder Farmer Market Analysis
*updated October, 2023
Find out more about South African Smallholder Farmers
Smallholder farms play a significant role in South Africa’s agricultural landscape. Despite facing numerous challenges, small-scale farmers hold tremendous potential to drive positive change in the country’s economic state while fostering regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.
The Package
RegenZ, along with several partners, has formed a package which includes all inputs required for a smallholder farmer to grow certain crops. On top of the package, RegenZ has formulated grow programs, application rates and a database of advice to assist the farmer.
Tailored Product Pack
We work with locally sourced and manufactured, sustainable farming inputs with a focus on building soil health and farmer resilience.
Monitoring and Reporting
In order to prove or improve our product pack, we like to track the data on some plots we are working on per growing group.
Agronomic Advice
Through one physical training session per season and on-going support via WhatsApp.
Tailored Product Pack
RegenZ has partnerships dating back several years that give us access to affordable, unique and effective seed, inputs and tools. Our goal is to provide a pack that suits the needs of the growing group which is delivered to a central depot for the distribution to farmers within that region.
Monitoring and Reporting
We like to sign an MOU with all the growing groups we partner with in order to ensure we are walking in the same direction. We like to establish goals that are set out to achieve in order for us to prove or improve our product pack.
Agronomic Advice
We offer one training session to our farming groups per season. This means we will send a technical person from our team to carry out a training day to explain our products, their intended use and answer any questions relating to any aspect of farming that we can. We also provide ongoing support via WhatsApp where the WhatsApp number is displayed on all the labels of our products.
Market Access
We have partnered with organisations who have access to markets for the goods produced by farmers which creates a circular system. For a smallholder farmer to get market access through our scheme, they will need to be associated with one of the growing programs.Through our partners like U Can Grow and Wild Coast Foods, the farmers' harvest is aggregated, processed and sent to local markets to satisfy local market demand.
Our Partners
Are you a smallholder farmer or do you have something to offer smallholder farmers? Please get in touch.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of partners do you look for?
Any agri-input manufacturer/supplier/provider that believes their product will be well suited in the smallholder farmer market.
Do you provide funding to smallholder farmers?
No we don’t but we work with organisations who have access to funding. We aim to position ourselves in projects that attract funding to subsidise some of the package cost.
Where do you work?
South Africa
Lesotho
Mozambique
eSwatini
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Malawi
Namibia
What is in your smallholder farmer package?
We like to include everything needed to grow a crop:
- Seed
- Fertilizer
- Soil nutrition
- Microbes
The packages are tailored the intended target audience.
Do you offer technical agricultural advice to smallholder farmers?
Yes we do. We try to gather data on the farming environment in order to put together a tailored product pack based on the farmers needs and requirements.
How many small-holder farmers are in South Africa?
Approximately 2,5 million