AoteA Programme - Rural Revitalisation

The Rural Agriculture Revitalisation Programme provides smallholders with all the important elements required for success.
This is the starting point for the AoteA Holistic Programme.

  • Crops For Domestic & Export Markets.
  • Carbon Credits.
  • Products for Exports.
  • Products from the programme re-used in other parts of the Programme. cycle of supply and demand resulting in export products.
  • Foreign Exchange.
  • AoteA intends, and has agreement with partners, to bring Programme component manufacture from Asia into Africa resulting in factories, employment andexports.

“SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, HOME TO MORE THAN 1 BILLION PEOPLE, HALF OF WHOM WILL BE UNDER 25 YEARS OLD BY 2050, IS A DIVERSE CONTINENT OFFERING HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOURCES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO YIELD INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND ERADICATE POVERTY IN THE REGION. – WORLD BANK”

What Does the Programme Provide?

The purpose of the AoteA Rural Revitalisation Programme is to form the main starting point for the whole of the Holistic Programmes; it kick-starts rural small holders across teh region by providing them with the foundations that they really need in order to become self-sufficient, to grow cash crops across multiple seasons, improve their health, finances, the regional economy and the environment.

The programme doesn’t just provide them with the things they need it also works with them over years to improve their situation and that of their neighbours, countries, environment and of the entire region. It works to manage off-take to either sell as cash crops or to be purchased by other elements of the programme (e.g. purchasing hemp fibres to process into textiles and then sell on to the textile industry, from which the programme will assist in purchasing end products and exporting, thus bringing in FOREX.

“THINK  HOW MUCH MORE RURAL PEOPLE COULD CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY, PEACE AND STABILITY IF THEY HAD THE RESOURCES TO IMPROVE THEIR FARMS AND BUSINESSES AND TO PROSPER, NOT JUST SURVIVE.”

ALVARO LARIO – PRESIDENT OF IFAD |

The kick-start consists of a "Smallholder In A Box" solution, which includes everything required to start growing crops successfully:

  • An AoteA Eco-Pump;
    • uses running water for power; no fuel, electricity, manual effort or solar require, just uses kinetic energy from the running water.
    • Depending upon situation and pump chosen:
      • Can deliver up to 25,000 litres per day.
      • Can deliver up to heights of 130m.
      • Can deliver to distances of up to 15km.
    • Maintenance less than $20USD per year.
    • Runs for 30 years, if looked after.
    • Fully green credentials.
  • Pipes from the water source to the pump, delivery to the storage tanks and run-off.
  • Water storage tanks.
  • Drip-feed irrigation for 1 hectare.
  • Fertiliser for 1 hectare.
  • Initial selection of seeds.
  • Small water purification unit (no chemicals or power) suitable for a household. (funding amounts depending)
  • Mosquito eradication devices (funding amounts depending):
    • Attracts and kills mosquitoes and other flying insects over an acre or more.
    • Disrupts their breeding cycle after 2 weeks of running.
    • Helps to reduce malaria, dengue and other related diseases.

 

Elements for Success