Agroshift
Bangladesh
Agroshift is a demand-driven digital grocery ordering platform for Ready Made Garments (RMG) factory workers and employees providing primarily agro commodities like vegetables, fruits, rice, pulses, milk, and meat, along with other daily needs. Agroshift envision to replace the intermediary in the supply chain and provide workers direct access to high-quality, safe, and affordable food. Workers can place digital orders through a mobile app or physically through ordering kiosks (containing fixed-mobile tablets) set up at designated places within the factories. Agroshift fulfill orders by procuring directly from their farmer networks located across 4 districts of Bangladesh, taking care of the sorting, grading, packaging, and delivery at factories. Agroshift partnered with Brac for mentorship and seed Fund through ‘Stitch challenge’. Their first customer is H&M- renowned global Ready Made Garment(RMG) sourcing company. They gave market exposure to different RMG factories. ADB provided Fund and international exposure. Agroshift partnered with UNDP’s Youthco lab, International Trade Center, Dhaka bank, USAID and swisscontact.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Market and price data analytics
Delivery type (format)
Web based platform
Mobile app
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agritech company
Name of supplier/developer
Agroshift Limited
Primary Users
Farmers , Other (15000 workers and employees of Ready Made Garments (RMG) factory)
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (limited use)
Number of users or subscribers
15000 workers and employees of Ready Made Garments (RMG) factory
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Majority of the RMG workforce are women, who will benefit directly by saving 15% in grocery shopping. They will also save time from doing daily groceries and have improved nutritional levels.
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Selected locations in Bangladesh. (They procure from farmers of 4 districts in Bangladesh)
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital initiatives