Turning a TSh 1.2M Loss into Profit

Yesterday in Tukuyu, Mbeya, we stood with a farmer whose entire livelihood is the soil.

Last season, on 4 acres of avocado, he spent TSh 3,200,000 and earned only TSh 2,000,000—a TSh 1,200,000 loss (-37.5% margin). Productivity Productivity Productivity....

He wasn’t under MazaoHub then.

In December last year he joined MazaoHub for his >8-acre banana blocks. We mapped his fields, ran soil tests, and built season-by-season farm plans—calibrating N–K nutrition for bunch fill, setting de-suckering/sanitation routines, irrigation scheduling, and harvest windows.

We converted his soil & farm data into a credit profile and, with CRDB Foundation, piloted farmer loans right here.

He told us bananas have already covered last year’s avocado losses—and he thanked us with a bunch of bananas. At farm-gate that bunch is TSh 3,000; in Dar es Salaam it sells >TSh 25,000. That 8–9× spread is exactly why CropSupply.com exists: traceable orders, logistics, and fairer pricing from village to factory.

MazaoHub = soil intelligence + Tech & Touch agronomy + data-driven finance + market linkage.

#TechAndTouch #PrecisionAgronomy #SoilData #CropSupply #CRDBFoundation

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