Bitcoin startup Bitmari aims to help Zimbabwean women farmers

Zimbabwe bitcoin firm Bitmari is leading efforts at introducing a Zimbabwe Women Farmers Accelerator program that is aimed at opening the doors of bitcoin to farmers as an alternative to cash.

While the startup wrestles with the regulatory aspects associated getting its primary service off the ground the Bitmari team has extended its services to the financing of the agricultural work of a small number of rural women.

The Zimbabwe Women Farmers Accelerator has been set up that will work with ten women farmers from ten provinces. Its aim is to provide support to the women such as farming assistance from experts in the field.

For Bitmari the idea here seems to be to raise awareness on bitcoin and its advantages, especially in communities that would ordinarily wouldn’t adopt a digital cash alternative that hasn’t become as mainstream as mobile money.