{"id":43004,"date":"2021-03-04T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bktechouse-partners-with-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-to-enhance-smart\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:13:23","slug":"bktechouse-partners-with-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-to-enhance-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bktechouse-partners-with-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-to-enhance-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"BKTechouse partners with Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance \u2018Smart Nkunganire System\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developed in 2017, SNS is a joint effort to digitize Rwanda\u2019s national farmers\u2019 input subsidy pro-gram, under a public-private-partnership arrangement between BKTechouse (a business subsid-iary of Bank of Kigali Plc.) and the Rwanda Agricultural and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB).<\/p>\n<p>The platform targets end-to-end digitization and supply chain management of Rwanda&#8217;s Agro-Input Subsidy program which entails farmer registration and agro-dealer enrollment; farmer agro-input orders and demand aggregation; securing agro-dealer supply and stock management; and related business intelligence reports. <\/p>\n<p>To date, the platform has registered over 1.2 million farmers, over 1,000 retail agro-dealers and over 30 fertilizer and seed (agri-SMEs) companies. Public sector entities and agents involved in subsidized inputs distribution program &#8211; including MINAGRI, RAB and local governance officers have access to, and use of, the platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from BK Techouse, the BMGF partnership will enable BKTechouse further develop, build-out and scale the SNS platform as a country-wide digitally enabled, full-service, agriculture platform through which small scale producers (SSP) and smallholder farmers are able to access, and adopt, effective and affordable agricultural inputs, products and services. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37958 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/farmers_training.jpg\" alt=\"Agronomists and agro-dealers during a training on Smart Nkunganire System in 2019.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{BK Techouse Ltd, the digital innovative power arm of Bank of Kigali Group has announced a 3-year partnership with the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to scale and enhance Smart Nkunganire System (SNS), Rwanda\u2019s national agro-inputs subsidy management system towards a fully integrated digital agriculture services platform.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}