World’s first fintech ecosystem for agriculture
Redefining agriculture through fintech. Tarka is a fully developed platform built with artificial intelligence and machine learning — leveraging data to enable smarter investments in agribusiness.
What is Tarka
Tarka is an outcome of our decade-long pursuit of building an alternative asset management ecosystem for agriculture, reinvigorated by the pressing need to align ourselves with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Tarka’s asset classes are special investment vehicles based on specific crops and geographies. Operations start in 2026 with 10 well-grounded asset classes, increasing the offering to over 100 asset classes across 20+ countries within the next five to eight years.
Strategy pyramid
Every asset class we launch traces back to the same three commitments.
Improve farmers’ livelihoods and help attain food security by liberating the financial constraints faced by farmers and agribusinesses alike.
Create access to invest in agriculture projects for investors of many kinds — funds, fund of funds, family offices, multilateral agencies and retail investors.
Provide financial services and solutions using analytics and models — increasing yield and optimising operations with AI, machine learning models and farm management tools.
The problem
Smallholder farmers — those operating less than two hectares — suffer most from a cycle of low productivity, subsistence farming and limited access to resources that perpetuates poverty and inhibits upward mobility.
Yields stay flat while input costs rise, so each season returns less than the one before it.
Proven agronomy and modern cultivation practice never reach the farmers who need them most.
Without accessible finance, farmers stay trapped in the vicious debt cycle of agriculture.
The solution
Improved methods of cultivation, technologies and knowledge, adequate and quality inputs, and agro-ecological strategies can unlock huge potential for boosting productivity in a sustainable direction.
Farm management tools and analytics built for smallholder scale.
Agronomic supervision through every stage of the season.
Adequate, quality inputs supplied and financed at the right time.
Consistent market access, so produce is grown against real demand.
What’s in it for stakeholders
Tarka is designed so that the interests of capital, farmers, markets and governments point in the same direction.
Create impact while making profits.
Quality inputs and supervision.
Assured supply and traceability.
Employment and food security.
Why Tarka
Tarka will be the world’s first fully integrated agriculture platform for farmers, retail investors and institutional investors — and we have the network, the pilots and the head start to build it.
25 years of professional experience in Africa and Asia in the agriculture sector, working with smallholder farmers and institutions.
Connected to potential stakeholders in 12 sub-Saharan African countries across multiple projects.
Partners with varied commodity and country experience within our network.
There is no single platform that delivers results in agriculture and finance simultaneously.
Tarka will be the world’s first fully integrated agriculture platform for farmers, retail investors and institutional investors.
At least a five-year head start on our competition, built on a network of industry experts.
In conversation with trade and debt funds in Europe to augment trade capability.
Our team has executed successful pilots in India, Malaysia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Ghana and Benin — delivering results.
ESG impact
Tarka will proactively contribute to attaining at least nine UN Sustainable Development Goals, with climate-smart practice built into every asset class.
Tarka’s alternative asset management ecosystem will directly impact the livelihoods and transform the lives of more than five million smallholder farmers in the coming years.
Tarka will help generate employment, provide food and nutritional security, and advance climate-safe agriculture across its countries of operation.
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”Bernard M. Baruch, 1921 — American financier and political adviser