The farmer's marketplace. Live prices, first-mile aggregation, off-taker matchmaking and direct-to-buyer e-commerce — built so a smallholder in Mbeya can sell to an exporter in Mombasa without losing margin to the middleman cartel.
In rural Tanzania, the buyer arrives in a pickup. The farmer doesn't know what the grain is worth in Dar. They sell low, sometimes pre-harvest, sometimes at a loss. Mazao.Gulio™ breaks the information asymmetry — and then closes the deal at a fair price.
23–40%
Estimated value lost between the farmgate and the urban buyer in maize and pulses, before Mazao.Gulio™ enters the chain.
Daily prices from 47 markets across Tanzania, delivered by USSD, WhatsApp or app — so the farmer knows what the buyer at the gate should be paying.
Pool harvests across a cooperative or village, hit truckload economies, qualify for premium off-taker contracts only volume can unlock.
A two-sided marketplace where verified off-takers post demand and farmer groups post supply. Filter by crop, grade, location, ETA, certification.
Buyer funds escrow on accepted offer; payment releases on delivery confirmation. Farmer's mobile money wallet pings within minutes.
Book a truck, weighbridge slot or warehouse receipt — all from the same flow. Optional integration with bonded warehouses for collateral.
Quality grading at aggregation points. Certificates of origin and traceability passes auto-attached from the Vikundi.Digital™ profile.
Farmer
Lists harvest
Aggregator
Pools & grades
Processor
Mills & values
Off-taker
Bids & pays
Exporter
Ships & clears
Farmer texts a USSD code with crop and quantity. The system returns three bids from verified buyers within 24 hours. Accept, deliver, get paid.
Manage incoming deliveries, run quality grades, weigh and tag, generate warehouse receipts and reconcile farmer payments — all from one dashboard.
Millers, oil pressers and feed manufacturers source pre-graded volumes against forward contracts — cleaning, drying and varietal specs all baked into the trade.
Post demand. See verified groups with confirmed inventory. Lock contracts at posted prices with full provenance trails for export buyers.
Farm-to-port traceability passes, EUDR-grade chain of custody and warehouse-receipt collateral — everything customs, buyers and financiers demand, already assembled.
A structured trade is what happens when a verified farmer group, a forward contract, a quality grade, a warehouse receipt and a bank all meet on the same page. Mazao.Gulio™ is that page — turning unpredictable harvest selling into bankable, financeable, contract-grade trade across crops and seasons.
Pre-agreed volumes, prices and delivery windows between farmer groups and anchor buyers — signed before planting, settled at harvest. Floor-price and indexed-price variants supported.
Grain in a bonded warehouse becomes underwritable collateral. The receipt finances the farmer pre-sale, then liquidates against the off-taker contract — cash-flow before harvest, not after.
Three-sided digital agreements where the financier disburses against the contract, the buyer escrows payment, and the farmer delivers against verified quality. Risk shared; trust enforced by the platform.
Quality grading at aggregation points feeds the contract directly — moisture, weight, foreign matter, varietal. Certification of origin and traceability passes auto-attach from the Vikundi.Digital™ profile.
From cash-on-the-pickup to contract-grade, bank-financed trade — without leaving the farmer behind.
Cross-border & structured →We finally know what our maize is worth — and the buyer knows we know.
A farmer-leader in the Mafinga SACCO, after the second harvest cycle on Mazao.Gulio™. The co-op moved from selling at the gate at TZS 680/kg to a single-buyer contract at TZS 920/kg in 2025.
For farmer groups, off-takers and aggregators ready to trade on data, not on rumor.