Description:
"At our mid-year point, Proximity has served over 85,000
customer households with our irrigation technology, rural
finance, and advisory services. Year-to-date irrigation sales
are up 11 percent, compared to FY2016, and our new sprinkler
irrigation product has been well-received by farmers.
Adoption rates for our farm advisory services jumped to 68
percent by quarter end, as our extension staff served 8.2
farmers each per working day. Proximity Finance is now
serving 60,238 active customers with an outstanding portfolio
of USD11.7 million. Proximity Research focused on recent
inter-communal violence in Rakhine State with domestic
research visits, and made preparations to take Myanmar
leaders to visit Indonesia and Maluku in the next quarter. Our
in-house product and service design team, Proximity Labs,
completed a full-season pilot of our SMS-messaging service to
advise farmers on timely fertilizer application, ready for launch
next quarter..."
Source/publisher:
Proximity Designs
Date of Publication:
2016-12-31
Date of entry:
2019-08-05
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Local URL:
Format:
pdf
Size:
2.42 MB
Text quality:
- English