Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa rarely reap the full fruits of their labour. Farmers face a number of challenges such as sub-optimal yields, food losses and waste, and unfair market returns. Farmers' vulnerability is a reflection of agricultural practices and low added-value on their produce sold locally or exported globally.
After harvest, avocados in particular are prone to spoilage and in Tanzania; typically 85% of harvested avocados go to waste due to storage, cooling and transportation constraints. Tanzania produces about 190,000 tons every year but only 11,200 tons reach the global market. This represents a huge economic opportunity to capture value from these under-utilised avocados and to develop products with higher shelf life and with high-demand on the regional and international market.
Avomeru group Ltd is the startup social enterprise strengthening farmer's livelihoods by producing organic cold-pressed avocado oil.
The grand purpose of the project is to reduce post-harvest food loss in avocado value chains, ensuring an additional income for smallholder farmers, and creating job opportunities for youth involvement in agriculture.
Through production and marketing of avocado oil, we save hundreds of tons of avocados from going to waste by processing them into a highly demanded product with long shelf-life. We provide income generating opportunities for farmers to utilise the resources they already have.
Company Details
- Employees
- 2
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Arusha, Arusha 23100, Tz
- Industry
- Farming
- NAICS
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Crop ProductionOilseed and Grain FarmingVegetable and Melon FarmingFruit and Tree Nut FarmingGreenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture ProductionOther Crop FarmingSoybean FarmingOilseed (except Soybean) FarmingDry Pea and Bean FarmingWheat FarmingCorn FarmingRice FarmingOther Grain FarmingOrange GrovesCitrus (except Orange) GrovesNoncitrus Fruit and Tree Nut FarmingFood Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Floriculture ProductionTobacco FarmingCotton FarmingSugarcane FarmingHay FarmingAll Other Crop FarmingOilseed and Grain Combination FarmingAll Other Grain FarmingPotato FarmingOther Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon FarmingApple OrchardsGrape VineyardsStrawberry FarmingBerry (except Strawberry) FarmingTree Nut FarmingFruit and Tree Nut Combination FarmingOther Noncitrus Fruit FarmingMushroom ProductionOther Food Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Tree ProductionFloriculture ProductionSugar Beet FarmingPeanut FarmingAll Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming
- Website
- https://www.avomerugroup.com/
- HQ
- Arusha, Arusha
- Competitors
- Ellygreentech Company Limited, Full Time Drones.
Avomeru Group Ltd Questions
Avomeru Group Ltd's website is https://www.avomerugroup.com/
Avomeru Group Ltd's LinkedIn profile is https://tz.linkedin.com/company/avomerugroup
Avomeru Group Ltd has
2 employees.
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employees at Avomeru Group Ltd.
Avomeru Group Ltd's industry is
Farming
Avomeru Group Ltd's top competitors are
Ellygreentech Company Limited,
Full Time Drones.
Avomeru Group Ltd's categories are Farming
Avomeru Group Ltd's founding year is 2015
