eHakiki is positively impacting thousands of lives in Tanzania's largest economic sector, agriculture.  With its main aim to ensure that smallholder farmer's incomes are protected.

Agriculture plays a major role in the Tanzanian economy, with almost two-thirds of the population drawing their income from the sector. Smallholder farmers make a large majority of the growers of Tanzanian food.  Good crop yields are essential to these smallholders to ensure a sustainable income.  

The Challenge
Challenges arise in the purchase of seeds with some farmers opting to use recycled seed rather than to opt for the potentially higher-yielding hybrid seed. Due to the high demand for seeds and pesticides, unexpecting farmers are buying counterfeit seeds.

Two-thirds of Tanzania's population work in agriculture making it a mainstay of the economy, with small scale farmers dominating the seeds production. High demand for seeds has attracted unscrupulous traders selling counterfeit or recycled seeds. 

Positive Impact
Through the sale of genuine seeds using eHakiki's e-verification system, farmers' interests are protected by safeguarding crop yields.

Improve food security.
Increase incomes of smallholder farmers
Reduce the prevalence of counterfeit and adulterated agricultural inputs
The sale of counterfeit seeds has far-reaching socio-economic consequences. More and more children are now able to complete their schooling because farmers whose sole source of income is based on crop yields are able to pay their children’s school fees.