Bill Gates on myAgro
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 Published On Nov 14, 2018

Whenever Bill Gates travels to rural parts of the world, the farmers he meets talk about one thing that holds them back: they can’t save their money. They don’t have a safe place to put their money, since 235 million of the world’s farmers don’t have banks. MyAgro is essentially a layaway system that takes advantage of the fact that more than half of the world’s unbanked farmers own mobile phones. Each farmer gets their own MyAgro account, and once they’ve saved enough, they can use their savings to buy better seeds and fertilizer than they would have access to normally. Learn more at https://b-gat.es/2QovGhz

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