From One Harvest to Three: Dronlytics and Azania Bank Partner to Transform Farming for Tanzania's BBT Youth
Dronlytics Technologies and Azania Bank have partnered to establish a dedicated agricultural loan facility for youth farmers in Tanzania's BBT program. Supported by U.S.-patented solar irrigation technology, the initiative aims to transition small-scale participants to commercial-scale farming.
Why it matters
Innovative financing and advanced solar irrigation can dramatically scale youth agribusiness in East Africa, transforming seasonal rain-dependent farming into year-round commercial production.
Dedicated loan facility gives experienced farmers and Building a Better Tomorrow (BBT) youth farmers a next step to commercial-scale farming, powered by USA patented solar irrigation technology that frees farms from dependence on seasonal rainfall
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA – Dronlytics Technologies Tanzania Limited and Azania Bank Plc today announced a dedicated agricultural loan facility for small-scale farmers, including farmer youth, participating in the Dronlytics Block Farm Program in Morogoro. The facility advances a strategic partnership formalized earlier this year with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), and builds on the Government’s Building a Better Tomorrow: Youth Initiative for Agribusiness (BBT-YIA) by giving youth who have gained hands-on farming experience a pathway to farm at commercial scale. The first farmer youths are expected to join the program in the first quarter of 2027.
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