Agricultural Equipment For Smallholders

thresh

(v.) to separate grain from a plant

Tanzanian smallholder farmers spend 1.35 billion hours threshing every year.

What would it mean to save those farmers 1.2 billion hours?

distributed manufacuring

(n.) a form of decentralized manufacturing characterized by geographically dispersed manufacturing facilities

Imara Tech establishes workshops in the center of major agricultural zones to produce MCTs for populations of up to 2.5 million farmers. Being close to our customers allows us to do marketing, sales, distribution, and repairs even in remote areas.

Name: Joseph John
Age: 22
Location: Vwawa, Mbeya, Tanzania
Primary Employment: Woodworker

Imara Tech's customers are looking for new ways to earn income. With the MCT, they can earn up to $14 per hour.

Customers put the MCT on the back of their motorcycle and bring it from house to house to offer it as a service to farmers during the harvest season. By making the MCT portable and modular, our customers can reach a wide-population of farmers, enabling them to easily pay off the MCT in under one season.

Imara Tech offer a range of services to support our customers and their businesses:

• Product training to ensure smooth usage

• A product warranty to protect the equipment for the payback duration

What would you do if you had a week of free time? Keep another business open? Sell food? Tend to your farm? Spend it with your family?

Our end-users are the 26 million people living and working on smallholder farms across Tanzania. The MCT cuts threshing times by days or even weeks, allowing farmers to spend their time as they see fit, whether that's running other businesses or taking care of their homes.

In addition to reducing threshing time and drudgery, the MCT produces grain uncontaminated by rocks and dirt and cuts post-harvest losses from 5% to 2%.

Imara Tech was founded in 2017 and operates as a Tanzanian-run, youth-led organization.