Zimbabwean Women Farmers Accelerator Introduces Bitcoin as a Cash Alternative

Bitcoin startup 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, reports TechZim, a Zimbabwe technology news site.
The bitcoin-based money remittance service for the African market based in Zimbabwe has recently been laying the foundations to extend its financial services to a small group of rural female farmers through an accelerator program.
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.
Each of the farmers will receive support for their projects in the form of the digital currency, bitcoin, which is being paid for through a crowd fund started by Bitmari. The bitcoin will then be employed to help the farmers receive assistance. The money that will be repaid by the farmers is expected to go toward the next group of women farmers in the program.

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on 26/10/2016.