New Case Study: Mobile Layaway for Irrigation Pumps in Kenya

Posted by MelissaUlbricht on Oct 06, 2010

Check out the newest MobileActive.org case study on a pilot mobile layaway service in Kenya for small-scale farmers.

The service is referred to as Tone Kwa Tone Pata Pump, which is Swahili for Drop by Drop Gets the Pump.

The mobile layaway service allows farmers to make incremental payments over a mobile phone by leveraging M-PESA, a mobile banking platform that is popular in Kenya and elsewhere. Farmers work toward the purchase of KickStart irrigation pumps, which allow farmers to irrigate up to two acres of land.

Read more here.

Photo courtesy KickStart

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