Agros
Location
Myanmar; Cambodia; Indonesia
Sector
Agriculture
Type of Investment
Risk Capital
Project Stage
Test & Transition
Length of Investment
2025+
Website
https://www.agrosglobal.com/
Investment Overview
Agros provides cutting-edge products and services tailored to modern farming needs, maximising productivity while minimising environmental impact. Its pioneering solar-powered irrigation solutions fully remove fuel expenses while avoiding CO₂ emissions.
The Development Challenge
Smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia contend with an extremely variable climate that alternates between monsoons and dry seasons, as well as with increasing water scarcity. Reliable irrigation is vital to maintain agricultural productivity, but it is almost impossible for them to afford it due to the high upfront, operating and maintenance costs of traditional irrigation systems.
The Innovation
Agros offers innovative products and makes them accessible to poor smallholder farmers. Agros’s flagship solution, Agrosolar, is a solar-powered irrigation pump which allows substantial savings on fuel costs compared to conventional diesel pumps, making irrigation more affordable for smallholder farmers. This system will provide reliable irrigation during dry seasons and droughts.
With subsidiaries in Myanmar, Cambodia and Indonesia, it works with over 6,000 farmers on over 14,000 hectares, aiming to impact 150,000 farmers within five years.
Agros is also working on expanding its catalogue of support to smallholder farmers, being currently piloting the sales of biofertilisers through branded shops in one of the countries in which it operates. Its goal is to be the leading sustainable solution provider for crop farmers across Southeast Asia.
Our Investment
GIF has invested $500,000 in Agros to support the company on its pathway to scale and increased impact, with the aim of catalysing at least $1 million in additional financing.GIF’s funds also aim to support the adoption of at least 500 new solar pumps across Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
GIF’s investment is part of Agros’s Series A funding round, which raised US$4.25 million to accelerate its expansion and innovation.
Agros in numbers
GIF investment
New solar pumps across Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia
Farmers impacted over the next five years
Innovating for Climate Resilience
This investment is supported through GIF's Innovating for Climate Resilience Fund.