MPesa helps farmers get insurance claims

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MPesa helps farmers get insurance claims

Posted on November 30, 2010 by idasa

An innovate insurance programme is coaxing Kenya’s farmers to invest in quality seeds and fertilizer. Relying on the popular mobile money transfer service, MPesa, it promises to process any claims due to crop loss quickly and safely. Kenya’s food insecurity is sometimes blamed in part on the reluctance of farmers to use high-yield farm inputs (such as seed and fertilizer). Read more here.